Cheats Hainan Chicken

/ Alex Zhou

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Season both sides of your favourite cut of skin on chicken with sesame oil and salt
  2. Slice ginger into rounds, don't worry about peeling
  3. Peel garlic and keep them whole
  4. Slice spring onions into reasonable lengths and split them in half length ways
  5. Wash white rice until water runs clear
  6. Transfer washed white rice into rice cooker
  7. Lay ginger rounds, peeled garlic, and sliced spring onions on top of white rice
  8. Lay seasoned skin on chicken on top of aromatics and rice, skin up
  9. Add high quality chicken stock to rice cooker
  10. Turn on rice cooker
  11. Peel and roughly chop some more ginger and spring onions in roughly equal amounts
  12. Add the ginger and spring onions into a mortar and pestle to roughly crush
  13. Heat some vegetable oil in a pan until shimmering
  14. Pour hot oil over ginger and spring onions and mix
  15. Season ginger spring onion sauce with salt, soy sauce, and sesame oil
  16. Cut cucumber diagonally
  17. When white rice is complete, transfer skin on chicken out of the rice cooker
  18. Serve white rice with sliced skin on chicken topped with ginger spring onion sauce and sides of cucumber slices

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