Herbal Chicken

Firstly, thanks everyone for your concern and prayers. Grandma had her op already and everything is good. Sis says she is in good spirits as well. :)

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Back to topic.

Cooked herbal chicken using the ready to cook pack from my box of love IV (will touch on that in another post). Previously, I tried cooking herbal chicken once, from scratch. But the results didn't turn out too good as I didn't have all the herbs. So when i saw the ready to cook pack from box of love IV, I was really thrilled. Cos I really really missed that dish.

The ready to cook pack is really easy. They have the marimating powder, the herbs and even the aluminium foil and HDPE plastic sheet all ready in the pack. Before I opened the pack, I read the instructions behind and it said to wrap the chicken in a HDPE sheet before wrapping it in aluminium foil. I thought: where the hell do I go find a HDPE plastic sheet?? And hence I was really surprised and glad that they really made it so convenient for us.

Herbal Chicken for the Emperor

And the steps are very simple too. Just rub the packet of spice powder all over the chicken, boil the herbs, stuff the herbs into the chicken and steam it for 2 hrs and voila, you get home cooked herbal chicken, like this:

The taste was quite alright but due to time constraint, I only steamed the chicken for 1hr instead of 2. Hence the chicken was not as soft and tender as it should be and the soup was not as flavourful. But nevertheless, it was so good that the 3 of us (we invited another friend over for dinner) finished the whole chicken.

Do consider cooking your own herbal chicken, if you have the time. :)