Hainanese Chicken Rice

How can I forget? and I am hainanese. For it to be truly enjoyable, you must make the sauces as well. It may look daunting but really, its a repetition of the ingredients and steps.

1.
Being to boil enough water in to cover 1 chicken. Rub salt onto the chicken, stuff it with 1 inch piece of ginger, 5 garlic cloves slightly smashed and 1/4 tsp salt.

Put chicken breast down in, lower heat and cook for about 25 minutes uncovered. and then turn off the flame and cover the pot. Let it steep for another 25 minutes.

2.
Meanwhile, wash 2 cups of long grain rice and leave to dry on a towel.
Prepare the ingredients needed for the rice: 3cm ginger grated, 3 garlic cloves grated.

Spoon a little water into the wok and add chicken fat in. Let the fat boil out then discard the chicken skin. Add the garlic and ginger without burning. Add the dried rice in and coat with the oil. Salt it. Place into a rice cooker pot.

3. The chicken should be done. take it out and dunk into a bucket of ice water.
Transfer the required amount of the chicken stock made into the rice cooker pot. Cook rice.

4. Make Chilli sauce: Blend/pound
5 chillies
1 cm giner
2 garlic cloves
1/8 tsp salt
1/2 tsp lime juice
1 tbsp chicken stock

5. Make Ginger sauce: Blend
2 inch ginger
3 garlic cloves
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 tsp lime juice
1 tbsp chicken stock.

6. Make sauce of chicken:
1 tbsp garlic oil
1 tsp sesame oil
5 tbsp soy suace
1.5 tbsp sugar
2 tbsp chicken stock

7.
Chop up the chicken, lay it on chopped cucumbers and pour chicken sauce over.
Garnish with coriander. Serve with chilli sauce, ginger sauce and chicken flavoured rice.


Suggestion: Serve with Beansprouts with salted fish