Singapore Hainanese Chicken Rice Recipe

Hainan Chicken Rice The Woks of Life

WEBAug 21, 2023 · 3 tablespoons rock sugar (about 3 sizable chunks, or just measure out granulated sugar) 1/3 cup dark soy sauce. Heat the water …

1. Wash the chicken clean and remember to set aside the piece of chicken fat at the back cavity. Transfer the chicken to a plate and pat dry with a paper towel. Lightly rub the chicken with the salt. This will give the chicken skin a nice sheen. Set it aside.
2. While the chicken is cooling, make the rice. Heat a wok over medium heat. Add the chicken fat and render for about a minute. Stir in the minced garlic and fry briefly, making sure it doesn’t burn.
3. Grind the ginger and garlic in a food processor until a paste forms. Heat the oil in a small pot or saucepan. Gently fry the ginger and garlic until aromatic and just lightly caramelized. You want it to be just cooked so that it no longer has that spicy raw flavor of uncooked ginger and garlic. Add salt to taste and transfer to a sauce dish.
4. Heat the water and sugar in a small saucepan over medium heat. Stir constantly until the sugar dissolves and the liquid thickens into a simple syrup. Add the dark soy sauce, stirring to combine. Transfer to a sauce dish.

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Hainanese Chicken Rice (The National Dish of Singapore)

WEBNov 7, 2019 · Heat in a wok over medium heat. Add the garlic and ginger stir until starting to brown, then strain through a sieve. Reserve the oil …

1. Remove the fat deposits from inside the cavity of the chicken, near the tail. Roughly chop the fat and place in a small frying pan over very low heat to render. Render the chicken fat, stirring occasionally for about an hour until you all the fat is rendered and the solids are crisp. Remove the solids and use them for another purpose. Reserve the chicken oil. You will use this for both the chili sauce and the chicken rice.
2. Pound the ginger and salt to a rough paste with a heatproof mortar and pestle.
3. Pound the chili, ginger, garlic, sugar and salt together in a mortar and pestle until very smooth. Pounding chili can take some time so to speed up the process you can start it in a blender or food processor and pound to finish, or grate the ingredients into the mortar using a rasp grater.
4. Pound the unpeeled ginger in a mortar and pestle and add to a very large pot containing about 1 gallon of water, along with the tops of the spring onions used for the ginger and spring onion oil.

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Authentic Hainanese chicken rice recipe (海南鸡饭)

WEBAug 22, 2019 · Blend the ginger, garlic, oil, salt, and chicken stock until homogenous. Use the mortar and pestle for a small amount. b. …

1. Fill up the pot with enough water to submerge the entire chicken. Bring the water to a boil.
2. Exfoliate the chicken with salt. Then clean the whole chicken with running water.
3. Add the ginger, garlic, and scallion to the pot. Alternatively, put them inside the cavity of the chicken and secure with toothpicks.
4. Ladle some boiling water to the chicken until the skin contracts and cooked. Hook up the chicken.

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