Steam Chicken Recipe: Here is the most popular steamed chicken Pakistani Indian style recipe. Step by step video recipe that you can easily prepare at home. Chicken marinated with masala then steamed to make it soft and tender. It's a healthy chicken recipe idea that you can easily prepare.
Steam chicken is the most popular wedding dish on the Pakistani wedding menu locally call it Shadiyon wala steam chicken. One of the best recipes for dawat, party and family get together.
Steam chicken is one the best and healthy chicken recipes that you can incorporate with your meal. Easy dinner recipe for foodies seeking weight loss without compromising on taste. It will give you an irresistible taste that will add value to your dining time.
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Making steam chicken seems difficult for beginners but it's so easy and simple if you carefully follow the steps. Steaming is the most essential part of this recipe. Don't forget to follow the steaming tips down below this recipe.
What is Steam Chicken?
Making chicken with steam is the traditional and classical method in which chicken cooks to make tender using steam. There are a variety of ways to steam the chicken using different marination and seasoning. In the steaming method, you can avoid oil and unsaturated fats to cut down calories and food become more appropriate for digestion.
SEE ALSO: Creamy Garlic Chicken Recipe
What's Special in This Recipe?
First, marinate the chicken using yogurt, ginger garlic, and spices for an hour then wrapped then cooked on steam by wrapping in Aluminum foil and then give the color on highly heated skilled using an aluminum pan on the stovetop. It's a mouthwatering and delicious chicken recipe that anybody can easily cook. Highly recommended for dinner and lunch.
How to Serve:
You can simply serve with this combination:
I personally love to have with naan, salad, and raita as it makes a tasty combo dinner. Lunch recommended combination to serve with rice, salad, and raita.
7 Pro Tips to Steam
Here are few tips to steam the chicken:
- Fully wrapped the chicken in aluminum foil to cook properly.
- Cooking in Aluminum foil makes the chicken juicy and tender.
- Don't over steam the chicken otherwise it will taste like rubber.
- Carefully remove the foil from the steamer.
- Gently open the foil as it will full of steam. If you are a beginner then use tongs or other tools to open the foil otherwise it will form a burn.
- 30 to 40 minutes of steaming is fine to steam chicken with bones.
- To make the steamed chicken tastier, just give it color in the oven or on the stovetop.
SEE ALSO: Chicken Tikka Biryani
Recipe Video
Making steam chicken is a mouthwatering process as the aroma will tempt you to eat that's the reason why it finishes in no time on my dining. It's a delicious, easy and quick chicken idea for foodies to try healthy meat. Here is a step by step video recipe that you can easily cook at home kitchen. So if you are a beginner and looking for how to make this steamed chicken then watch this quick tutorial.
You can find the recipe card down below this post.
Easy Steam Chicken Recipe
Ingredients
- Chicken - 700 gms
- Cumin Seeds - ½ Tsp
- Coriander Seeds - ½ Tsp
- Fennels - ⅓ Tsp
- Whole red Peppers - 5
- Salt - ½ Tsp
- Red Chili Powder - 1 Tsp
- Turmeric Powder - ½ Tsp
- Garam Masala Powder - ½ Tsp
- Mango Powder - ½ Tsp
- Black Pepper Powder - ½ Tsp
- Cumin Powder - ½ tsp
- Ginger garlic paste - 1 Tsp
- Yogurt - 1 Cup
- Yellow food color - 2 Pinches (optional)
- Aluminum foil
Method
- Preparation of Chicken Marination: In a frying pan, add Cumin, Coriander Seeds, fennels, and whole red pepper.
- Roast on low heat until get aromatic.
- Grind to make a fine powder.
- Now add this masala to a bowl
- Also add salt, red chili powder, turmeric, garam masala, mango powder, black pepper and cumin powder.
- Mix well.
- Now add yogurt and ginger garlic paste and make a smooth paste.
- Sprinkle yellow food color. (This step is optional just to give specific symbolic yellow color to chicken)
- Add chicken in the paste and mix well to fully coat the chicken on all sides.
- Marinate for an hour and keep the marinated bowl in a warm place.
- After 01 hour of marination, wrap the chicken in Aluminum foil.
- Preparation of Homemade Steamer:
- On the stovetop, heat a big pan with ⅓ filled water.
- Add any stand to maintain distance between pan surface and chicken.
- Kept a stainer over the stand.
Steam the chicken:
- Place the chicken in a strainer.
- Turn the heat to full until the water starts to boil.
- Now cover the pan and cook for 30 minutes.
- You can add more water to the pan if requires.
- After 30 minutes, carefully remove the chicken from the foil.
- Roast Chicken: Place the chicken on an Aluminum pan and keep it over the skillet (Tawa).
- Heat up the skillet (Tawa).
- Now cook the chicken for 5 to 6 minutes depending on your chicken moisture. This step is to give roasted color to the chicken and evaporate excess water.
- Cook until the chicken shows roasted texture and changed the color.
Tasty and delicious Roasted "Steam Chicken" is ready to serve.
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FAQ's
Why Steamed Chicken is Healthy?
Yes, it's not only tasty but healthy as well. It cooks on steam without using any drop of oil. Best for diet control and weight loss and best source of protein. Less in calories and unsaturated fats.
Is it better to steam or boil chicken?
Boiling chicken doesn't retain juices and becomes tasteless if overboiled while the steamed chicken is fully tender and intact moisture and remains juicy from inside. Both methods elicit different tastes. Steam chicken is tastier as compared to boiled chicken.
Is Steam chicken good for weight loss?
Yes, it's recommended for weight loss and diet control as it's a good source of protein and cook without oil.
How long should I steam chicken?
30 minutes are enough to cook steam chicken with bone and boneless.
Steam Chicken Recipe - How to Make Steamed Chicken
Equipment
- Alluminum Foil
- Alluminum Dish
- Strainer
- Pan
Materials
- Chicken – 700 gms
- Cumin Seeds – ½ Tsp
- Coriander Seeds – ½ Tsp
- Fennels – ⅓ Tsp
- Whole red Peppers – 5
- Salt – ½ Tsp
- Red Chili Powder – 1 Tsp
- Turmeric Powder – ½ Tsp
- Garam Masala Powder – ½ Tsp
- Mango Powder – ½ Tsp
- Black Pepper Powder – ½ Tsp
- Cumin Powder – ½ tsp
- Ginger garlic paste – 1 Tsp
- Yogurt – 1 Cup
- Yellow food color – 2 Pinches optional
- Aluminum foil
Instructions
- Preparation of Chicken Marination: In a frying pan, add Cumin, Coriander Seeds, fennels, and whole red pepper.
- Roast on low heat until get aromatic.
- Grind to make a fine powder.
- Now add this masala to a bowl
- Also add salt, red chili powder, turmeric, garam masala, mango powder, black pepper and cumin powder.
- Mix well.
- Now add yogurt and ginger garlic paste and make a smooth paste.
- Sprinkle yellow food color. (This step is optional just to give specific symbolic yellow color to chicken)
- Add chicken in the paste and mix well to fully coat the chicken on all sides.
- Marinate for an hour and keep the marinated bowl in a warm place.
- After 01 hour of marination, wrap the chicken in Aluminum foil.
- Preparation of Homemade Steamer:
- On the stovetop, heat a big pan with ⅓ filled water.
- Add any stand to maintain distance between pan surface and chicken.
- Kept a stainer over the stand.
- Steam the chicken: Place the chicken in a strainer.
- Turn the heat to full until the water starts to boil.
- Now cover the pan and cook for 30 minutes.
- You can add more water to the pan if requires.
- After 30 minutes, carefully remove the chicken from the foil.
- Roast Chicken: Place the chicken on an Aluminum pan and keep it over the skillet (Tawa).
- Heat up the skillet (Tawa).
- Now cook the chicken for 5 to 6 minutes depending on your chicken moisture. This step is to give roasted color to the chicken and evaporate excess water.
- Cook until the chicken shows roasted texture and changed the color.
- Tasty and delicious Roasted “Steam Chicken” is ready to serve.
Video
Notes
- Don't' over steam the chicken.
- Carefully take out chicken from foil.
- To roast the chicken, you can also use an oven.
- To evenly roast chicken on the stovetop, use Aluminum dish/pan
Hinz
Easiest Steam Chicken Recipe for foodies to make at home. Easy dinner idea for weight loss and diet control. No oil used.
Luna Mcmahan
Love these chicken recipe…perfect for summer cookout. I'm going to make it tomorrow!!