Ingredients
100gm rice
100ml water
1 chicken breast, cubed
6 prawns, cleaned
2gm ginger, julienned
1 spring onion, cut into 1cm pieces
1 tbsp oyster sauce
1 tsp potato flour mixed with water
3 lotus leaves, soaked in water
Method
1. Soak the rice overnight in water and then steam it for about 45 minutes.
2. In the meantime, stir-fry chicken, prawns, ginger and spring onion with oyster sauce. Thicken the sauce with potato flour mixed with water.
3. Once the rice and the filling is ready, prepare the lotus leaf. Cut small rectangular shapes as a base for the leaf wrap.
4. Place a layer of rice on the leaf followed by a layer of filling. Top with another layer of rice. Cover with a larger square of lotus leaf and wrap up like a parcel.
5. Steam the parcels for 5 minutes and serve.
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