Hainanese Chicken Rice with Step by step pictures. Hainanese chicken rice is a portion of ultimate comfort food. Simple ingredients like ginger, garlic, chillies can give such a delicious end product.
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 an amazing rice dish.
Hainanese Chicken Rice Recipe
Prep time: 10 mins
Cook time: 40 mins
Total time: 50 mins
Recipe type: Main
Cuisine: Chinese
Serves: 4 servings
Ingredients
Chicken Legs - 2
Rice - 1 cup
Oil - 1 tablespoon
Ginger - 1 tablespoon chopped
Garlic - 1 tablespoon 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 tablespoon
Garlic - 2 cloves
Salt to taste
Sugar - 2 tsp
Vinegar - 3 to 4 tablespoon
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 are 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 the lowest heat possible for 10 to 15 mins.
Serve.
For chilli sauce. Soak chillies in hot water for 10 mins. Add it in a blender along with all ingredients and grind.
Serve with rice.
