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Chinese cuisine dish
White cut chicken
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/BeiQieJi-WhiteCutChicken.jpg/220px-BeiQieJi-WhiteCutChicken.jpg) White cut chicken with Shanghai bok choy and broth (usually served with "geung yung", a tangy dip made of ginger, scallions, and garlic)
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Course
| Main dishes
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Place of origin
| China
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Region or state
| Hong Kong
,
Guangdong
,
Fujian
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Main ingredients
| Chicken
,
ginger
,
scallion
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cilantro
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White cut chicken
or
white sliced chicken
(
traditional Chinese
:
白切?
;
simplified Chinese
:
白切?
) is a type of
siu mei
.
[1]
Unlike most other meats in the
siu mei
category, this particular dish is not roasted, but
steamed
.
[2]
The dish is common to the cultures of
Southern China
, including
Guangdong
,
Fujian
and
Hong Kong
.
[1]
[3]
In
Hawaii
, this popular dish is known as
cold ginger chicken
.
[4]
[5]
Preparation
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The chicken is salt-
marinated
and cooked in its entirety in either plain 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 nearly white in color, and the meat will be quite tender and juicy. The dish can be served "rare", in which the meat is cooked thoroughly but a pinkish dark red blood is secreted from the bones. This is a more traditional version of white cut chicken that is seldom 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 or a slice of ginger. It is usually accompanied by a condiment called
geung yung
(
Chinese
:
薑蓉
;
pinyin
:
j?ang rong
;
Cantonese Yale
:
g?ung yung
;
lit.
'ginger paste') made by combining finely minced ginger, finely minced garlic, green onion, salt and hot oil. In Hawaii, this sauce is popular in other dishes such as
poke
and noodles.
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[7]
Additional dips can be spicy mustard,
hoisin sauce
,
soy sauce
,
oyster sauce
or chili pepper sauce.
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