I like cooking meat with bones. Fall and winter are the perfect season for this, since cooking with bone often translates to hot steaming dishes. I prefer chicken drumsticks for making this steamed chicken with sesame sauce, because they are the perfect size and easy to grab for the kids. The dark meat is also more tender and easy to chew compared to the white meat. Cooking with bony meat also means taking out the pressure cooker. Using a pressure cooker helps in creating tender meat, extra rich broth while retaining the most nutrients in short cooking time.
Ingredients:
- 15 drumsticks (more or less)
- 1/3 cup of sesame oil
- 1/3 cup of light soy sauce (or coconut amino if you’re on Paleo diet)
- 2 stalks of green onion
- 1/2-3/4 cup of cilantro Salt and Pepper
Directions:
- Fill your pressure cooker with 2 cups of water (or hot water if you want the pressure to build up faster).
- Put the steamer basket on top of the wire rack, making sure that the water does not reach the basket.
- Arrange chicken in the steamer basket while sprinkling salt and pepper generously on them as you go. Stack more chicken on top.
- Make sure you don’t fill your pressure cooker all the way to the brim.
- Put on the lid and start cooking on high heat.
- While waiting for the pressure to build up, chop the green onions and cilantro and put them in a bowl.
- Mix in the soy sauce (or coconut amino) and sesame oil into the green onion cilantro bowl.
- When the pressure is built up (my pressure cooker shows two lines to let me know that pressure is completely built up), turn down the heat and set your timer to 15 minutes.
- After 15 minutes, turn off the stove. You can wait until the pressure is released naturally or you can bring your pressure cooker to the sink and release the pressure immediately by pouring cold water on it.
- Arrange chicken on a plate.
- Pour the sauce mixture on the chicken.
- Don’t forget the chicken broth under the steamer.
- Serve the chicken broth on the side.
