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Truly Delicious Hainanese Chicken Rice (Khao Man Gai) Recipe

 ·  ☕ 5 min read  ·  ✍ī¸ Lottie Boyd

Truly Delicious Hainanese Chicken Rice (Khao Man Gai)
Truly Delicious Hainanese Chicken Rice (Khao Man Gai)

Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, truly delicious hainanese chicken rice (khao man gai). It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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Quite similar to Hainanese chicken rice but with lot less steps, a simpler version of it if you might say. I love the silky softness of the chicken, and delighted in shoveling spoonful after spoonful of aromatic rice into my mouth. Khao man gai (ā¸‚āš‰ā¸˛ā¸§ā¸Ąā¸ąā¸™āš„ā¸āšˆ) is the Thai variation of Hainanese chicken rice, a dish that's extremely popular throughout Southeast Asia. In Thailand, specifically throughout Bangkok, you can't walk more than a few blocks without finding a chicken rice cart or restaurant (same goes for Chiang Mai). (Redirected from Khao man gai).

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook truly delicious hainanese chicken rice (khao man gai) using 14 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Truly Delicious Hainanese Chicken Rice (Khao Man Gai):
  1. Take 2 Chicken thighs
  2. Get 2 clove Garlic
  3. Make ready 1 stalk Japanese leek or green onion (the green part)
  4. Make ready 1 Cilantro root (if you have)
  5. Make ready 1 tbsp ● Fish sauce
  6. Make ready 1 tsp ● Sugar
  7. Take 1 tsp ● Soy sauce (Thai soy sauce if you have)
  8. Prepare 2 tbsp ● Sake
  9. Get 1/3 to 1/2 teaspoon ● Salt
  10. Take 600 ml Water
  11. Take 360 ml Long grain rice (Thai or Pakistan rice)
  12. Take 1 Tauchu-Style Sauce,
  13. Take 1 Cilantro
  14. Prepare 1 Cucumber, tomato and etc.

Transfer chicken to a cutting board and slice. Divide rice, chicken and cucumbers among plates. Serve with green onion-ginger oil, kecap. Hainanese chicken rice is one of my favorite "street" foods of all time.

Steps to make Truly Delicious Hainanese Chicken Rice (Khao Man Gai):
  1. Put the water, seasonings marked ●, crushed garlic, cilantro root, and green part of the green onion in a pot. Cook until the water is reduced to 2/3.
  2. Add the chicken thigh (remove the excess fat beforehand) in the reduced soup. When it comes to a boil again, cook the chicken skin side down for 3 minutes. Cover with a lid, and turn off the heat.
  3. Leave the pot with the lid on for 20 minutes or longer to let it cook the chicken in residual heat. When it is cooked, take out the chicken from the pot, and strain the broth.
  4. If you slice the chicken when it is still warm, it will fall apart, so let it cool down first before you slice. Wrap it to keep the moisture while cooling down.
  5. Taste the strained broth, and season with salt if necessary. Use 400-420 ml of the broth to cook rice. If you don't have enough amount of the broth, add water to fill up.
  6. Rinse the Thai rice briefly, and put in the pot, used for making the broth, or in a rice cooker. Add the broth. If you use a rice cooker, fill the broth as following the water gauge in the cooking pan!
  7. Cover with a lid, and cook over high heat and bring it to a boil. Cook for 1-2 more minutes, and turn down the heat to low. Cook over low heat for 10-12 minutes (to cook 2 rice cooker cups of rice). Turn off the heat, and leave it with a lid for 10 minutes to steam the rice.
  8. [Helpful Hints] Wrap the sliced chicken with plastic film. When you turn off the heat after cooking the rice, place the chicken on top of the rice to steam and warm up. This step makes the chicken more delicious.
  9. [For Your Reference] If you cook short grain rice or if you cook with a rice cooker, use the amount of water as following. For short grain rice: less than usual. For long grain rice: same as usual.
  10. When the rice is steamed, serve it with the sliced chicken, cucumber and tomato although I didn't put tomato for this time.
  11. Enjoy the dish with the Tauchu-Style Sauceand generous amount of coarsely chopped cilantro if you like.
  12. Recipe for reference: This is also a popular Thai dish. The stir-fried basil and chicken with rice (Phad Ga Prao) -.
  13. Ready to serve and ENJOY!

Serve with green onion-ginger oil, kecap. Hainanese chicken rice is one of my favorite "street" foods of all time. This dish is very popular in Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand. Each country has slight variations on the same dish (the accompanying sauces are what seem to vary the most), and they are all delicious. Hainanese Chicken Rice from Singapore vs.

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