# Hainanese Chicken Rice

A simple yet intricate recipe for Hainanese Chicken Rice, focusing on extracting flavour from key ingredients to create tender chicken and flavorful rice, served with fiery chili and sharp ginger-scallion sauces.

- Servings: 1 servings
- Total time: 60 min
- Cuisine: Chinese
- Category: Soup
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 1 whole chicken
- 1 tbsp salt
- 1 piece ginger
- 1 bulb garlic
- 1 bunch scallions
- 4 shiitake mushrooms
- 1 bottle water
- 2 cups rice
- 2 shallots
- 5 red chilies
- 1 lime
- 1 tbsp soy sauce

## Instructions

1. Place the chicken on a baking sheet and season generously with salt.
2. Remove the giblets from the chicken.
3. Finely mince the giblets and set aside.
4. Place the chicken in a pot and add water.
5. Add sliced ginger, garlic, scallions, and shiitake mushrooms to the pot.
6. Poach the chicken until cooked.
7. Finely mince ginger and garlic.
8. Finely chop scallions.
9. Combine minced ginger, garlic, chopped scallions, and salt in a bowl. Mix well.
10. Add chicken broth from poaching to the bowl. Mix well.
11. Add soy sauce to the bowl and mix well.
12. Remove the chicken from the pot and place in an ice bath.
13. Strain the chicken broth and set aside.
14. Rinse the rice and cook in a rice cooker.
15. Add the minced chicken giblets to a pan and saute until browned.
16. Add minced shallots and garlic to the pan and saute briefly.
17. Add the cooked rice to the pan and mix well.
18. Add the strained chicken broth to the rice mixture in the rice cooker.
19. Cook the rice until done.
20. Finely chop red chilies and mince garlic.
21. Combine the chopped red chilies, minced garlic, and salt in a mortar and pestle.
22. Pound the mixture until a paste is formed.
23. Add lime juice and some chicken broth to the paste. Mix well.
24. Brush the cooked chicken with the ginger-scallion mixture.
25. Slice the chicken and serve with rice, cucumber, chili paste, and ginger-scallion sauce.

## Equipment

- baking sheet
- knife
- pot
- rice cooker
- mortar and pestle
- basting brush

## Source

- Original video: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DGtRp-DosMA/?igsh=MWh6YmVnOW15MmR2aw==
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/ae2ad237-5191-4499-bce1-fc2272635ecd
- Extracted: 2025-03-02

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