Hainanese Chicken Rice - Southeast Asian Recipe

Hainanese Chicken Rice

🌍 Southeast Asian, Singapore / Malaysia (Chinese-Hainanese) Difficulty: ●●●○○

Ingredients

• 1 whole chicken
• 3 stalks green onion
• 3 slices ginger
• salt. **Rice:** 2 cups jasmine rice
• 2 tbsp chicken fat
• 3 cloves garlic (minced)
• 1 tsp ginger (grated)
• 400ml chicken poaching stock
• pandan leaf. **Sauces:** ginger paste (ginger + oil + salt)
• chili sauce (red chilies, garlic, ginger, lime, sugar)
• dark soy

Method

1. Rubbing — Rub chicken with salt inside and out; stuff with ginger and green onion.
2. Poaching — Poach in gently simmering water 35–40 min until cooked; rest 15 min.
3. Icing — Ice bath to firm skin; cut into pieces.
4. Frying — Fry garlic and ginger in chicken fat; add rice; toast 2 min.
5. Cooking — Cook toasted rice in stock with pandan.
6. Serving — Serve chicken over rice with cucumber, all three sauces, hot broth.

Tags: chicken, stalks green onion, ginger, salt. **rice:** 2 cups jasmine rice, chicken fat · Source: Brittani's Almanac