Hainanese Chicken Rice - taste of asia

[Ekusumo]

Hi BZB,
The steamed chicken was actually fine. I used a free range small chicken so it was cooked through. It's quite tasty. I would try this again (without mistakes this time!) The chilli paste is great!! It made the whole dish so so tasty.

BZB, I tried making this but mine didn't turn out right. My rice was quite bland. Either a) the stock wasn't salty enough or b) I DID make the mistake of cooking the rice at 100 deg at the last step instead of putting it on varoma with the chicken on top. So basically I just cooked the rice at 100 degrees. Do you think that could have been why the rice was bland? And oh, it was undercooked too.

Did you add a tsp of salt into the rice, after sautéing it? Yes, you need varoma temp for the steaming of chicken and cooking the rice.

I cook regular rice at varoma temp as well.

How was the steamed chicken?

[BeezeeBee]

Glad that the chicken turned out well

[Jamberie]

Thank you for the tips and the link BZB... I'll have another go soon following your advice

[charlieboy]

Would love to see a photo of the finished product if anyone has one

[Cornish Cream]

BZB posted a photo of the finished dish on page 2 of this post charlieboy.

[charlieboy]

Oops I can see it now... Still trying to work out this tapatalk app

[BeezeeBee]

Sautéd the rice at speed 3, reverse, 2 mins instead of speed 2. It's quite time consuming to scrape out rice from the bottom of the jug. Hence I thought a faster speed would avoid the problem.

It did....but the rice was all broken up! Bad idea

[BeezeeBee]

We have this regularly. Soooo delicious!

[*suzanne*]

yum bzb looks delicious I've made this once and it was really good, yours looks very professional :D

[BeezeeBee]

Thanks Suzanne

[cookie1]

I must try this. I will copy yours BZB. 

[BeezeeBee]

Ccokie, I usually make a stock from chicken frames. Use some of the stock to steam the chicken and rice. I chuck vege into the rest of the stock, season with white pepper and salt.

Today I added 25ml of oil into the rice, instead of 1 tbsp as per recipe. It stopped the rice from getting stuck to the base of the bowl.

[JulieO]

Looks delicious Bee 

[BeezeeBee]

Thanks Julie

Cookie, forgot to mention that I always use free range chicken for this recipe. Mt Barker chooks are on special at Coles this week