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    Hainanese Chicken Rice Recipe

    Last Updated On: Apr 14, 2025 by Aarthi

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    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.

    Hainanese Chicken Rice

    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.

    Table of Contents

    • About Hainanese Chicken Rice 
    • Video for Chicken Rice Recipe
    • 📖 Recipe Card
    • Hainanese Chicken Rice Recipe
    • Hainanese Chicken Rice with Step by Step Pictures
    • Tips & Tricks

    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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    Hainanese Chicken Rice

    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.

    Hainanese Chicken Rice

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    Hainanese Chicken Rice Recipe

    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.
    4.67 from 3 votes
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    Prep Time: 10 minutes minutes
    Cook Time: 40 minutes minutes
    Total Time: 50 minutes minutes
    Servings: 4 servings
    Calories: 453kcal
    Author: Aarthi

    Ingredients

    • 2 Chicken Legs
    • 1 cup Rice
    • 1 tbsp oil
    • 1 tbsp Ginger chopped
    • 1 tbsp Garlic chopped
    • 2 Spring onion chopped
    • 1 Green Chilli chopped
    • Salt to taste
    • Pepper to taste
    • 3 cups Chicken Stock
    • Spring onion for garnishing

    FOR GINGER SAUCE:

    • 6 Dry Red Chilli
    • 1 tbsp Ginger
    • 2 cloves Garlic
    • Salt to taste
    • 2 tsp Sugar
    • 4 tbsp Vinegar

    Instructions

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

    Video

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    Notes

    • 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.

    Nutrition

    Serving: 1servings | Calories: 453kcal | Carbohydrates: 54g | Protein: 20g | Fat: 17g | Saturated Fat: 4g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 4g | Monounsaturated Fat: 8g | Trans Fat: 0.1g | Cholesterol: 65mg | Sodium: 360mg | Potassium: 636mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 9g | Vitamin A: 767IU | Vitamin C: 101mg | Calcium: 46mg | Iron: 2mg
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    Hainanese Chicken Rice with Step by Step Pictures

    1)Heat oil in a pan

    Hainanese Chicken Rice

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

    Hainanese Chicken Rice

    3)Saute for a min

    Hainanese Chicken Rice

    4)Add in chicken

    chicken legs

    5)Add in salt and pepper

    Hainanese Chicken Rice

    6)Flip over and cook

    Hainanese Chicken Rice

    7)Flip over and cook

    Hainanese Chicken Rice

    8)Add in chicken stock

    chicken stock

    9)Cover and cook till chicken is done

    Hainanese Chicken Rice

    10)Now chicken is done

    Hainanese Chicken Rice

    11)Remove chicken in a plate

    chicken legs

    14)Drain the sediments

    chicken stock

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

    chicken stock

    16)Add rice

    seera samba rice

    17)Mix well and cook on low heat

    Hainanese Chicken Rice

    18)Place chicken on top

    Hainanese Chicken Rice

    19)Cover and cook on lowest heat possible

    Hainanese Chicken Rice

    20)Now rice is done

    Hainanese Chicken Rice

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

    Hainanese Chicken Rice

    22)Add in ginger and garlic

    Hainanese Chicken Rice

    23)Add salt

    chilli ginger sauce

    24)Add sugar

    chilli ginger sauce

    25)Add in vinegar

    chilli ginger sauce

    26)Now sauce is done

    chilli ginger sauce

    27)taste and adjust the seasoning

    chilli ginger sauce

    28)Serve

    hainanese chicken rice

    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.
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      5 stars
      Thanks for the great recipe. I were following your recipe for my cooking for many days.. All are awesome and come out well.. But especially this one we liked a lot.. As it full of natural aroma of garlic and ginger which rolls in mouth for a long time...
      Chicken - Protein, Garlic-Ginger-Pepper - Healthy spices as always and great one..
      Kudos to you for sharing this

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