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Hainanese Chicken Rice Recipe
This is a simple rice dish in which chicken is cooked in flavourings like ginger, garlic, green onions, chillies which creates a stock. Later rice is cooked in the stock which gives such a amazing rice dish.
About Hainanese Chicken Rice
Hainanese chicken rice is a dish of poached chicken and seasoned rice, served with chilli sauce and usually comes with cucumber garnishes. It was created by immigrants from Hainan in southern China and adapted from the Hainanese dish Wenchang chicken.
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Ingredients for Hainanese Chicken Rice
Chicken
Use bone in chicken for making this dish. Flavourful chicken stock is very important for making the rice flavourful. Bone in chicken adds for maximum flavour,.
Rice
Traditionally the chicken skin is removed and sauted in pan till the chicken fat from the skin is rendered. Rice is stir fried in that chicken fat and cooked in the chicken stock.
Flavourings
Garlic, spring onions (scallion) and ginger plays an important role in making of this dish. You can add spices like star anise, cinnamon and whole peppercorns too.
Ginger Sauce
This dish is flavourful and pretty mild in taste. Spicy ginger sauce is made by grinding chillies with garlic, ginger, sugar and vinegar. This sauce adds the spicy kick to the dish. Pin If you have any questions not covered in this post and if you need help, leave me a comment or mail me @[email protected] and I’ll help as soon as I can. Follow me on Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest ,Youtube and Twitter for more Yummy Tummy inspiration.
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Hainanese Chicken Rice with Step by Step Pictures
1)Heat oil in a pan Pin 2)Add in ginger, garlic, chillies and spring onion Pin 3)Saute for a min Pin 4)Add in chicken Pin 5)Add in salt and pepper Pin 6)Flip over and cook Pin 7)Flip over and cook Pin 8)Add in chicken stock Pin 9)Cover and cook till chicken is done Pin 10)Now chicken is done Pin 11)Remove chicken in a plate Pin 14)Drain the sediments Pin 15)Now the stock is done. Add more water if needed Pin 16)Add rice Pin 17)Mix well and cook on low heat Pin 18)Place chicken on top Pin 19)Cover and cook on lowest heat possible Pin 20)Now rice is done Pin 21)Meanwhile make chilli and ginger sauce, Take soaked dry chillies in a blender Pin 22)Add in ginger and garlic Pin 23)Add salt Pin 24)Add sugar Pin 25)Add in vinegar Pin 26)Now sauce is done Pin 27)taste and adjust the seasoning Pin 28)Serve Pin
Tips & Tricks
Make sure you use bone-in chicken for getting a flavourful chicken broth. If you can remove the chicken skin and render the fat from it in a pan and fry the rice in it to get maximum flavour. You can use store bought chicken stock or use stock cubes for instant version.
