Herbal Chicken(药材鸡)

I realize that after i move to california, to be able to eat the popular and delicious asian food, i need to learn how to cook it myself. Though there are many restaurants at bay area, the good one are way too expensive, or too much msg. It's time for me to demonstrate my interest in cooking. Today, i am making herbal chicken. I find it healthy and easy to prepare, all you need is to get ready the right herb to add to the chicken and steam it! Lets begin....

Here is the ingredients:

half chicken or 2 big drum sticks

300 ml water

5 slices chuan xiong

12g yi chok

6g dang sheng

5 slices dang gui

5g wolfberries (can put more as you like)

5 red dates

5 slices bei chi

First, marinate the chicken with some white pepper, cooking wine, salt to taste for 2 hr. Cook all the herb in 300ml water for 30 min a low heat. Place the chicken is the big piece of aluminum foil, add in the herbal soup and wrap it over. Steam the chicken for 2 1/2 hr, or 1hr if using pressure cooker. This is one dish that is easy to prepare and the soup is so juicy sweet!

Pizza with sweet potato filling

Pizza dough ingredients (12" pizza):

Bread flour 200g

cake flour 50g

sugar 10g

salt 5g

instant dry yeast 4g

milk 20g

egg white 1

Butter 10g or olive oil 2 Ts

Method:

Mix all ingredients and knead for ~ 10 min. Set aside at warm place (cover with warm cloth) for ~ 1hr, let the dough rise double the original size. Flatter the dough and shape it to fit the pizza pan ~ 12". Add mash sweet potatoes to dough edge, bake it at 500oF for 5 min (optional). Add topping: tomato paste, shreded cheese, pineapple, sausages/pepperoni, anion etc. Bake at 400F for 10-13min.

Da..da.. here is the homemade pizza by Shannen....umm..