Hainanese Chicken Rice 海南雞飯

I always found something in fridge that are almost expired especially some leftover ingredients. I found one stalk of lemongrass. It is not enough to make a Tom Yum Soup. If might be enough to use it as marinating some other meats but the easiest way to use it is to cook it with rice. Just add ginger, garlic and shallots and it will make Hainanese Chicken style rice.

Ingredients: (serves 4)

rice 2 cups

1 stalk of lemongrass (Cut into smaller pieces and mash it with a knife(切段拍扁))

3 slices of ginger 

pinch of salt

2 shallots  (cut into thin slices)

4 cloves of Garlic 

1.5-2 cups Chicken stock 

(Use stock from making Hainanese chicken, or you can just use store brought chicken broth if you are cooking the rice alone)

2 tbsp chicken oil (or vegetable oil)

Directions:

1. Rinse the rice with water until the water is clear
2. Discard washing rice water
3. Pour chicken soup stock to rice. The amount of soup is just the same amount of water you use when you cook your normal rice.
4. Heat 2 tbsp of oil. Stir-fry lemongrass, ginger and garlic until brown.
5. Pour everything into rice cooker. Then cook rice in normal setting
6. Discard lemongrass, garlic, ginger and shallots before serving.

To view how to make Hainanese Chicken, please visit my previous blog post for Hainanese Chicken Recipe.