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.

Hainanese Chicken Rice

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

Hainanese Chicken Rice Recipe
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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.
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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

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

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