# Hainanese Chicken

This video shows you how to make Hainanese Chicken, which is quite easy to make and yields 3 servings.

- Servings: 3 servings
- Cuisine: Chinese
- Category: Lunch
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 3 Bone-in, Skin on Chicken thighs
- 6 Cups Water
- 3 crushed garlic cloves
- Ginger
- Scallion whites
- Salt
- 2 Chicken bouillon cubes
- 5 Cloves peeled garlic
- 1.5 inch peeled ginger
- 1 Cup washed rice
- 1.5 tbsp ginger garlic mince
- 2 tbsp sliced greens of the scallions
- heated oil

## Instructions

1. Trim off the excess fat from the chicken thighs and keep it for later.
2. Add chicken to a pot and add enough water to completely cover the chicken.
3. Add ginger, garlic, scallion whites, and some of the greens to the pot.
4. Add salt and chicken bouillon cubes to the pot, stir, and bring it to a boil.
5. Cover the pot, drop the heat to medium low, and cook for 30 minutes.
6. While the chicken is cooking, add peeled garlic and ginger to a food processor and process till it's minced.
7. Add the chicken skins to a cold pan and set the heat to medium to allow the fat to render fully and crisp up properly.
8. Take the crisped chicken skins off the pan.
9. Add washed rice and some of the ginger garlic mince to the pan and cook for a bit till slightly toasted.
10. Add the toasted rice to a rice cooker, add broth from the pot, and cook it.
11. Add the remaining ginger garlic, a pinch of salt, sliced greens of the scallions, and heated oil over it in a bowl.
12. Mix the ingredients in the bowl.
13. Take the cooked chicken out of the pot and let it rest and cool down before taking the bones out and slicing it.
14. Strain the broth and add it to a serving bowl.
15. Add chicken skin crumbles, green onions, and cooked rice to a bowl, smash it down, and flip onto the plate to serve.
16. Add sliced chicken and ginger scallion oil to the plate.

## Equipment

- Pot
- Food processor
- Pan
- Rice cooker
- serving bowl

## Tips

- Adding chicken skin crumbles, green onions, and cooked rice to a bowl, smashing it down, and flipping onto the plate for serving is an optional step that takes the dish to the next level.

## Source

- Original video: https://www.instagram.com/p/DJZgeImRzqi/
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/ec335d55-6eec-4267-8bce-fea4850e4ca9
- Extracted: 2025-07-31

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