- Prep Time:10 mins
- Cook Time: 20 mins
- Serves: 8 People
Ingredients to make Hainanese Chicken Rice :
- 1.5 kg whole chicken
- 8 cloves garlic
- 2.5 cm ginger, sliced
- 1 onion, halved skin on
- Salt and white pepper to taste
- Water for boiling
- Ice bath
- For the rice :
- 3 cups long grain rice
- 1.5 cm ginger, sliced
- 5 cloves garlic, sliced
- 5 pandan leaves, knotted
- Chicken broth
- Salt to taste
- 2 teaspoons oil
- For the dipping sauces :
- 3 fresh red chillies
- Salt to taste
- Juice of 1 lime
- 4 cloves garlic
- 1 slice ginger
- Garnishing :
- 1 medium cucumber, peeled and sliced
- 1 tomato, sliced
- 1 tablespoon (15ml) light soya sauce
- 1 teaspoon (5ml) sesame oil
- Lettuce leaves
How to make Hainanese Chicken Rice :
- Clean chicken removing the fat and reserving them. Wash and season the chicken inside out with salt.
- Put a pot of cold water to boil. Place chicken in the cold pot with the onion, garlic, ginger slices. Season with salt and white pepper.
- After it boils, simmer for 20-25 minutes until chicken is cooked. Remove chicken and plunge into the ice bath.
- Pull chicken out, dry and set aside. Strain the chicken broth and set aside. Cut the chicken in bite-size pieces.
- Wash and drain the rice. Saute the sliced ginger and garlic in the reserved chicken fat until fragrant.
- Add the washed rice and put in a little oil and saute the rice until it is coated with oil.
- Pour in enough chicken stock to cook the rice and add the pandan leaves. Cook the rice until it is done.
- Deseed and pound the chillies in mortar and pestle, adding a little salt until it becomes a fine paste. Add a little lime juice and mix. Put chilli sauce in dipping dish.
- Pound the garlic cloves and ginger together until fine and put in another dipping dish.
- Place the lettuce leaves on a serving plate and arrange cucumber slices and tomatoes around the dish.
- Put chicken pieces in the center and drizzle with mixture of light soya sauce and sesame oil on top of chicken.
- Serve with a bowl of chicken broth, chicken and rice and dipping sauces.
