Hainanese Chicken with Rice 海南雞飯

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Ingredients

3 hours
4 people
  1. Hainanese chicken
  2. 1corn-fed chicken; remove fat for later use
  3. 2lemongrass; slightly hammered
  4. 4pandan leaves
  5. 2lime leaves
  6. 2spring onion
  7. 4 slicesginger
  8. 1 TABLEspoonChinese wine
  9. 1 teaspoonsalt
  10. 1 TABLEspoonTurmeric powder
  11. Chicken oil rice
  12. 1shallot; diced
  13. 2lemongrass; slightly hammered
  14. 2lime leaves
  15. Chicken fat
  16. 2 cupsrice
  17. Chicken soup
  18. Dipping sauce 1: Sweet Soy Sauce
  19. 15 glight soy sauce
  20. 30 gdark soy sauce
  21. 15 gsugar
  22. 1 teaspoonwater
  23. 0.5 teaspooncorn starch
  24. Dipping Sauce 2: Spring onion and ginger sauce
  25. 2 bunchesspring onion; green portion only; diced
  26. 2 piecesginger; thumb-size; made puree
  27. 0.5 teaspoonsalt
  28. 1 TABLEspoonoil
  29. Dipping sauce 3: chilli sauce of your choice

Cooking Instructions

3 hours
  1. 1

    Boil a big pot of water with 2 lemon grass, 4 pandan leaves, 2 lime leaves, 2 spring onion, 4 pieces ginger, 1 TABLEspoon Chinese wine, 1 teaspoon salt and 1 TABLEspoon turmeric powder

  2. 2

    Immerse chicken into the boiled water; pull the chicken in and out of water slowly for 3 times and then make sure the water covers the whole chicken

  3. 3

    Heat the pot to 90 degrees

  4. 4

    Turn the heat off and soak the chicken in the water with lid on for 30 minutes

  5. 5

    After 30 minutes, check the temperature of the thickest part of chicken (thigh/ breast) to see if it reaches 80 degrees. Repeat step 3 and 4 until desirable meat temperature is attained

  6. 6

    While soaking the chicken, prepare the rice.

  7. 7

    Panfry chicken fat with low heat to obtain chicken oil

  8. 8

    Remove residue of chicken fat and saute shallot until scented.

  9. 9

    Add 2 lime leaves and 2 lemongrass and mix well

  10. 10

    Add 2 cups of washed rice and saute for at least 2 minutes with high heat

  11. 11

    Cook the rice mixture with rice cooker and add equivalent amount of chicken soup, instead of water, from the pot when the chicken reached desirable meat temperature

  12. 12

    Back to the chicken, when desirable meat temperature is attained, cool down the chicken in ice water bath

  13. 13

    For sweet soy sauce, mix 15g light soy sauce, 30g dark soy sauce, 15g sugar, 1 teaspoon water, 0.5 teaspoon corn starch and gently heat the mixture until thicken

  14. 14

    For spring onion and ginger sauce, put diced green spring onion and ginger puree in a bowl, heat 1 TABLEspoon of oil until smoked and pour it to the bowl; BOILING OIL SPLASH ALERT

  15. 15

    For chilli sauce, just pick the one you like

  16. 16

    Prepare dipping sauces

  17. 17

    Debone the chicken and cut into desirable size

  18. 18

    Serve the chicken with chicken oil rice, cucumber slices and dipping sauces

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