White cut chicken

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White cut chicken
Main dishes
White cut chicken with Shanghai bok choy and broth (usually served with "ginger spring onion dip" a tangy Chinese dip)
Place of origin:
China
Region or state:
Hong Kong, Guangdong, Fujian
Main ingredient(s):
chicken, ginger, Scallion, cilantro
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White cut chicken

White cut chicken

白切鸡

白切雞

baak6 cit3 gai1

báiqiējī

Literal meaning

white cut chicken

Transcriptions
Hakka
Romanization	pak cet gai
Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	báiqiējī
Cantonese
Jyutping	baak6 cit3 gai1

White cut chicken or white sliced chicken is a siu mei.^[1] Unlike most other meats in the siu mei category, this particular dish is not roasted.

Preparation

The chicken is salt marinated and is cooked in its entirety in hot water or chicken broth with ginger. Other variations season the cooking liquid with additional ingredients, such as the white part of the green onion, cilantro stems or star anise. When the water starts to boil, the heat is turned off, allowing the chicken to cook in the residual heat for around 30 minutes. The chicken's skin will remain light coloured, nearly white and the meat will be quite tender, moist, and flavourful. The dish can be served "rare" in which the meat is cooked thoroughly but a pinkish dark red blood secretes from the bones. This is a more traditional version of white cut chicken that is rarely served in Chinese restaurants anymore. The chicken is usually cooled before cutting into pieces.

The chicken is served in pieces, with the skin and bone, sometimes garnished with cilantro, leeks and/or a slice of ginger. A condiment usually accompanied by combining finely minced ginger, green onion, salt and hot peanut oil. Additional dips can be spicy mustard, hoisin sauce, soy sauce, oyster sauce, or chili pepper sauce.

Region

The dish is common to the cultures of Southern China, including Guangdong, Fujian, and Hong Kong.^[1]^[2]

In all cases it is served with a condiment called jīang-cōng (姜蓉, Cantonese: goeng1 jung4) or jīang-cōng-yóu (薑蔥油, Cantonese: goeng1 cung1 jau4), which is a salted mixture of finely minced ginger, scallions, and either liquid pork fat or vegetable oil.

Gallery

Ginger and scallion oil condiment
Dry version

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to White cut chicken.

↑ 1.0 1.1 Xinhuanet.com. "Xinhuanet.com." 白切雞. Retrieved on 2008-11-19.
↑ 39World. "39World.com." 白切雞. Source mention 闽南, which is basically Minnan/Fujian. Retrieved on 2008-11-19.

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White cut chicken

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