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Alice Zaslavsky

Full steam ahead: Alice Zaslavsky’s chicken drumsticks with spring onion oil and cucumber salad

Topview of a round platter of rice and steamed chicken drumsticks topped with spring onion oil, with a bowl of cucumber salad on the side
A vapour caper: Alice Zaslavsky’s chicken drumsticks with steamed rice, sizzled spring onions and cucumber whack salad. Styling and food prep: Ally Kekovski. Photograph: Eugene Hyland/The Guardian

Wetness, as the philosopher Derek Zoolander famously said, is the essence of beauty. And in our hunt for the next one-pan wonder or set-and-forget slow cooker recipe, sometimes steaming food is overlooked.

Steaming is one of the world’s oldest “gentle” cooking methods, and south China is the place of origin for my recipe below, which riffs on white-cut chicken – though I came across it in a far more modern forum, as a reel on Instagram.

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