Truly Delicious Hainanese Chicken Rice (Khao Man Gai)
- 2 Chicken thighs
- 2 clove Garlic
- 1 stalk Japanese leek or green onion (the green part)
- 1 Cilantro root (if you have)
- 1 tbsp Fish sauce
- 1 tsp Sugar
- 1 tsp Soy sauce (Thai soy sauce if you have)
- 2 tbsp Sake
- 1/3 to 1/2 teaspoon Salt
- 600 ml Water
- 360 ml Long grain rice (Thai or Pakistan rice)
- 1 Tauchu-Style Sauce,
- 1 Cilantro
- 1 Cucumber, tomato and etc.
- Put the water, seasonings marked , crushed garlic, cilantro root, and green part of the green onion in a pot.
- Cook until the water is reduced to 2/3.
- Add the chicken thigh (remove the excess fat beforehand) in the reduced soup.
- When it comes to a boil again, cook the chicken skin side down for 3 minutes.
- Cover with a lid, and turn off the heat.
- Leave the pot with the lid on for 20 minutes or longer to let it cook the chicken in residual heat.
- When it is cooked, take out the chicken from the pot, and strain the broth.
- If you slice the chicken when it is still warm, it will fall apart, so let it cool down first before you slice.
- Wrap it to keep the moisture while cooling down.
- Taste the strained broth, and season with salt if necessary.
- Use 400-420 ml of the broth to cook rice.
- If you don't have enough amount of the broth, add water to fill up.
- Rinse the Thai rice briefly, and put in the pot, used for making the broth, or in a rice cooker.
- Add the broth.
- If you use a rice cooker, fill the broth as following the water gauge in the cooking pan!
- Cover with a lid, and cook over high heat and bring it to a boil.
- Cook for 1-2 more minutes, and turn down the heat to low.
- Cook over low heat for 10-12 minutes (to cook 2 rice cooker cups of rice).
- Turn off the heat, and leave it with a lid for 10 minutes to steam the rice.
- Helpful Hints Wrap the sliced chicken with plastic film.
- When you turn off the heat after cooking the rice, place the chicken on top of the rice to steam and warm up.
- This step makes the chicken more delicious.
- For Your Reference If you cook short grain rice or if you cook with a rice cooker, use the amount of water as following.
- For short grain rice: less than usual.
- For long grain rice: same as usual.
- When the rice is steamed, serve it with the sliced chicken, cucumber and tomato although I didn't put tomato for this time.
- Enjoy the dish with the Tauchu-Style Sauceand generous amount of coarsely chopped cilantro if you like.
- Recipe for reference: This is also a popular Thai dish.
- The stir-fried basil and chicken with rice (Phad Ga Prao) -.
chicken, clove garlic, stalk japanese, cilantro, sauce, sugar, soy sauce, sake, salt, water, grain rice, cilantro, cucumber
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/172190-truly-delicious-hainanese-chicken-rice-khao-man-gai (may not work)