Hainanese Chicken Rice
Source of Recipe
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Recipe Introduction
Serves 4 persons
List of Ingredients
1 large chicken(1.5 kg)
1 inch young ginger
1 tsp salt
1 tbsp sesame oil
2 litres water
Recipe
1. Clean, wash the chicken. Do not cut off the neck or head.
2. Tie a string to the head. set aside.
3. In a large sauce pot, add water and ginger to boil.
4. Once boiling, slowly slide in the chicken. making sure that water covers the chicken.
5. cook over low heat for 20 mins..uncovered.
6. After 20 mins, turn off the fire. And leave the chicken inside the pot for another 10 mins.
7. Remove the chicken and let it cool completely.
8. Once cooled, add sesame oil and salt on your palm and rub the chicken inside out.
9. Chop/cut chicken to serve on a plate.
10. Drizzle 2 tbsp of chicken stock over chicken.
Notes:
If you discover that the chicken is not cook thru, just add hot boiling chicken stock to it and drained the stock back to the big pot. Do this 3 to 4 times and the chicken will not have bloody parts.
If you do this, you must mixed 1 tbsp of sesame oil, 1 tsp salt and drizzle over the cut chicken before serving again.
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