Hainanese Chicken Rice Recipe

Hainanese Chicken Rice with Step by step pictures. Hainanese chicken rice is an ultimate comfort food. Simple ingredients like ginger, garlic, chillies can give such a delicious end product.

WIKI: 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.

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.

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Hainanese Chicken Rice Recipe

 

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Prep time

10 mins

Cook time

40 mins

Total time

50 mins

 

Hainanese chicken rice is an absolute comfort food. This needs just basic ingredients but the flavours are spot on. The rice itself has lots of flavour.

Author: Aarthi

Recipe type: Main

Cuisine: chinese

Serves: 4 servings

Ingredients

• Chicken Legs - 2
• Rice - 1 cup
• Oil - 1 tblsp
• Ginger - 1 tblsp chopped
• Garlic - 1 tblps chopped
• Spring onion - 2 chopped
• Green Chilli - 1 chopped
• Salt to taste
• Pepper to taste
• Chicken Stock - 3 cups
• Spring onion for garnishing

FOR GINGER SAUCE:

• Dry Red Chilli - 6
• Ginger - 1 tblps
• Garlic - 2 cloves
• Salt to taste
• Sugar - 2 tsp
• Vinegar - 3 to 4 tblsp

Instructions

1. Heat oil in a pan. Add in ginger, garlic, chillies and spring onion. Saute for 2 mins.
2. Add in chicken and season with salt and pepper.
3. Cook till both sides is seared.
4. Now add in chicken stock and bring it to a boil. Cover and cook till chicken is done. Remove chicken to a plate.
5. Strain the stock.
6. Take it back in the pan, add rice and mix well. Cook for 3 to 4 mins.
7. Add in chicken and cover it and cook on lowest heat possible for 10 to 15 mins.
8. Serve.
9. For chilli sauce. Soak chillies in hot water for 10 mins. Add it in blender along with all ingredients and grind.
10. Serve with rice.

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Pictorial:

1)Heat oil in a pan

2)Add in ginger, garlic, chillies and spring onion

3)Saute for a min

4)Add in chicken

5)Add in salt and pepper

6)Flip over and cook

7)Flip over and cook

8)Add in chicken stock

9)Cover and cook till chicken is done

10)Now chicken is done

11)Remove chicken in a plate

14)Drain the sediments

15)Now the stock is done. Add more water if needed

16)Add rice

17)Mix well and cook on low heat

18)Place chicken on top

19)Cover and cook on lowest heat possible

20)Now rice is done

21)Meanwhile make chilli and ginger sauce, Take soaked dry chillies in a blender

22)Add in ginger and garlic

23)Add salt

24)Add sugar

25)Add in vinegar

26)Now sauce is done

27)taste and adjust the seasoning

28)Serve