Steamed chicken with pineapple and bitter melon a la hainan

Steamed chicken with pineapple and bitter melon a la hainan

this recipe was given to me by my friend, a Taiwanese who loved to eat and she said this is one of the hainan’s people traditional cuisine.

Ingredients:

1. 3 slices of sour pineapple (I prefer not to sour one, but its depend one’s taste)
2. ½ of bitter melon
3. 1 part of chicken’s thigh
4. ¼ spoon of salt
5. 3 cups of water


How to serve:

1. cut chicken’s thigh into pieces, pour boiling water on it and drained it
2. wash clean the bitter melon, cut of and throw away its seed and cut it into pieces
3. cut the pineapple into pieces
4. put all the ingredients together, pour the water and salt into it, steamed it until the chicken meat is soft
5. if you like, you can add some pepper onto it
6. steamed chicken a la hainan ready to served with hot chilly sauce
7. for some people who love ginger, adding some pieces of ginger could be a good choice, for adding a ginger flavour too...
8. bon appetite...