Hainanese Style Chicken Rice
By Margarita Lee
Ingredients:
1 chicken
10 slightly crushed pips of garlic
5 slightly crushed shallots
3-inch piece ginger
1 tbsp salt
4-5 tbsp cooking oil
Chicken fat (optional)
3 cups rice
1 sprig coriander, root removed
1 cucumber
1-2 tbsp fried garlic
Preparation:
- Bring a pot of water to the boil, put in chicken and immediately switch off the heat. Soak for about 45 minutes.
- Remove chicken from pot and soak in ice cold water for 10 minutes.
- Cut chicken into bite sized pieces. Garnish with coriander.
- Strain the broth for later use.
- Wash rice and allow to soak for a while.
- Heat oil in frying pan and add chicken fat, garlic, small onion and ginger, fry till light brown.
- Remove garlic and small onion.
- Add rice and fry for 3-5 minutes.
- Transfer rice to a rice cooker, add 4½ cups chicken broth, and cook until rice is done.
Chilli Sauce:
15 red chillies, 5 chilli padi, 3 cm young ginger – pounded
1 tbsp chicken oil (scoop from the chicken stock)
2 tbsp lime juice
Dash of sesame oil or garlic oil
Mix the above ingredients, add in salt and sugar to taste.
To Serve:
Fluff up rice, press rice into a rice bowl and invert it onto a serving plate.
Garnish chicken with cucumber or tomatoes.
Serve with chilli sauce and dark soya sauce if desired.
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