Hainanese Chicken Rice
Serve:2-3
Equipment: Rice cooker
Ingredients for Chicken Rice
2 pieces/300 gram Chicken breast (preferably with skin)
250 gram Thai jasmine rice (uncooked)
4 Spring onion -trimmed
3 tbs Thai Coconut milk/cream
1 tbs Rapeseed oil
1 tbs Garlic-finely chopped
1 handful Red Amaranth microgreens
1 pinch Wasabi mustard
1 Vegetable stock cube
1 litre Water
1 pinch Salt and pepper
Ingredients for dipping sauce:
1 tsp Garlic-finely chopped
1 tsp Red chilli-finely chopped
1 tsp Ginger puree
1 tsp Lemon juice
1 tsp Honey
1 pinch Wasabi mustard
4 tsp Light Soy sauce
– Put the chicken breast, water, vegetable stock cube, spring onion in the big saucepan. Bring it to boil and simmer for further 30 minutes. This is your flavoured stock to cook the rice.
– Put the rice in the sieve then wash the rice under the running water tap for approx 2 minutes.
-Transfer the rice into the rice cooker, add approx 350 ml of the flavoured stock, garlic, coconut milk and oil into the rice cooker. Gently fold the ingredients together. Then place the chicken breasts into the rice cooker with the mixture.
-Turn the rice cooker on to “cook” mode. Wait until the rice cooker change to “keep warm” mode which means the rice is cooked.
-Mix the ginger puree,garlic, chilli,lemon juice,honey and light soy sauce in the small bowl.
-Serve Hainanese Chicken Rice with the dipping sauce immediately.
Tips:
-I can not stress enough! If you like Thai food, it is worth to invest in a rice cooker. it is much quicker and easier to cook the rice(and other dishes) in the rice cooker.
-Hainanese Chicken can taste quite bland. Hence, I garnished with Red Amaranth microgreens. It’s mild and tender yet add complimentary flavours to this delicate poultry dish. I also add the peppery Wasabi Mustard microgreens into our intense dipping sauce. Best buddy, I must say.
-Thais are always serving Hainanese Chicken Rice with the plain soup ” Gang-Jued” So feel free to season and serve the leftover flavoured stock with this easy Thai food dish.
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