Improved Hainanese Chicken Rice

Now, with our own utensils, etc, I decided to try the Hainanese Chicken Rice dish again yesterday. This time, I'm having the chicken rice chilli.

Let's start with the chilli, blended with my magimix again... hehee... using the small bowl.

Ingredients:

• 4 red chillies, all the bird eyes chilli
• 1 green chillies, all the bird eyes chilli
• 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar (I dont have lime in stock.. but it works la)
• 2 tbsp chicken stock (from cooking the chicken)
• 2cm ginger
• 4 cloves of garlic
• a dash of sesame oil
• a pinch of salt

Blend all the ingredients together. Adjust the ingredients based on your taste preference.

The chicken:

Ingredients:

• one whole range chicken, roughly 1.5kg
• 4 tbsp salt
• 3x3cm stalk of spring onion, the white part
• 4 slices of ginger 
• 3 cloves of garlic (white skin, bruised)
• a pot of water enough to submerge the chicken
• another pot of cold water
• 3 cloves of garlic, chopped
• 1 teaspoon of oil
• 1 tbsp of soy sauce
• parsley for deco

Methods:

1. Boil the water and 2 tbsp of salt.
2. Wash the chicken, then scrub with salt and wash it off (this is to remove any bad odour and to give the chicken a smooth shiny skin).
3. Stuffed the cavity of the chicken with ginger, garlic and spring onion.
4. When the water boils, add the chicken in, breast down. Let it boil for another 2mins, turn off the fire. Let it rest in the hot bath for about 5-7mins before turning the fire on again till boiling point and shut off again. Repeat for another time. The final, let it rest for about 10mins. This is to preserved the juices of the chicken in it.. :D
5. Use chopsticks to remove the chicken (under the "armpit") and submerge in cold water.
6. Remove the contents in the cavity. When chicken cool down, cut up the chicken and remove the main parts and the meat from the chicken breast.
7. Put back the chicken carcass back to the soup and boil for another 15mins under low fire. This will be the soup, served with some chopped spring onion.
8. Heat the oil, saute garlic. When the garlic is bout to turn golden brown, add in the soy sauce. Once boiling stage, turn off the fire and pour it over the chickens.

Rice:

Ingredients:

• 1.5cups rice
• 2 cups of the chicken stock from cooking the chicken
• 2cm ginger
• 2 cloves of garlic
• bout 1/2 tablespoon of butter (if add this, reduce the water a little)

Methods:

1. Wash rice, mixed all the ingredients together and steam it or cook in rice cooker.