we had a christmas potluck yesterday, i made a few finger food.. one of them is this Chinese chicken Parcel.. from Jamie Oliver. recipe here

1 Savoy or Chinese cabbage
sea salt
2 cloves of garlic, peeled
1 thumb-sized piece of fresh ginger, peeled
1 bunch of spring onions, trimmed
1 handful of fresh coriander
1-2 fresh red chillies
1 tablespoon fish sauce
4 trimmed boneless chicken thighs, skin removed, roughly chopped
1 handful of water chestnuts
zest and juice of 2 limes
1 teaspoon sesame oil
extra virgin olive oil
sweet chilli jam, jelly or sauce
soy sauce
1 tablespoon toasted
sesame seeds

Remove and discard the core and outer leaves from the cabbage, undo the remaining cabbage leaves and place them in a pan of salted boiling water for 2 minutes to soften. Cool them in a bowl of cold water, drain and put to one side.

In a food processor, whizz up your garlic, ginger, spring onions, coriander, chilli and fish sauce with a good pinch of salt. Then add the chicken, water chestnuts, lime zest and juice and sesame oil and pulse until you have a minced meat consistency.

Place a heaped dessertspoonful of the flavoured mince on to one end of each cabbage leaf. Fold it up and tuck in the sides, then roll up. Rub a bamboo steamer, colander or normal steamer with a little olive oil and place in the cabbage parcels. They may try to unfold themselves, but once you start putting them next to each other they will hold in place. When they're all in, sit the steamer over a pan of boiling water, making sure the water doesn't touch the parcels and that it's just the steam that's cooking them. Put a lid on top and steam for about 6 minutes until cooked. If you're worried about the cooking time, take one of the parcels out and cut it in half to make sure that the heat has penetrated and that they're cooked.

it was quite easy to do.. actually i havent really cooked alot of chinese dishes, although i'm a chinese.. ahah.. because chinese dishes are .. generally harder to cook  u know u have to control the fire.. and all .. ok so this one was pretty easy, i'm quite happy that it turned out well and everyone ate..

not much pics taken of the food, cause too busy.. =.=

cabbage. after boiling n dipping in cold water

this is the end product! it's minced chicken inside.. it's nice.. hehe

good.. can make this for chinese new year again!

oh yeah !! u can serve with soy sauce with toasted sesame .. or thai chili sauce... nice

	yalli March 17, 2006   01:30 AM PST   yay... i tried this b4, but i used minced pork instead.. i love this recipe, always been hoping to try again sometime soon...

	swee December 30, 2005   04:45 PM PST   oh the water chestnuts.. u can find in pasar malam.. or supermarkets.. giant.. i think it's called mah-tai in cantonese..

	rokh December 30, 2005   06:36 AM PST   sound really yummy. wonder where to get the chestnuts

	swee December 26, 2005   05:55 PM PST   inside la..

	KongKiKong December 26, 2005   04:16 PM PST   Where is the chicken??