Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, steamed chicken rice. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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Steamed Chicken Rice is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Steamed Chicken Rice is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have steamed chicken rice using 15 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Steamed Chicken Rice:
- Take 1 Chicken thigh
- Take 1/2 Burdock root
- Get 1/2 Carrot
- Prepare 1 pack each Maitake/Shimeji mushrooms
- Get 2 slice Aburaage
- Take 3 tbsp Soy sauce
- Get 60 ml Sake
- Make ready 40 ml Mirin
- Prepare 2 pinch Salt
- Prepare 1 tbsp Sesame oil
- Take 540 ml White rice
- Take 600 ml Chicken soup stock
- Prepare 1 Green onions
- Get 1 Shredded nori seaweed
- Make ready 1 Beni shouga red pickled ginger
Yes, it reminds me of Korean kongnamulbap. In a pot, add in the washed rice, the water then place the chicken on top and cover. Chicken rice generally comes in two forms - roast chicken and steamed chicken. I personally prefer the steamed chicken variation.
Steps to make Steamed Chicken Rice:
- Wash the rice well. Place in a colander for 30 minutes to drain the water. Meanwhile, prepare the vegetables.
- Julienne the carrot into 2-3 mm. Cut the aburaage into 2 cm thick pieces.
- Use the back of a knife to roughly peel off the skin of the burdock root and cut into long thin shavings. Soak in water to remove impurities.
- Cut the chicken into 2-3 cm cubes. If you fry the side with the skin beforehand, it will add more flavor to the rice.
- Heat sesame oil in a frying pan and cook the ingredients (except the chicken) on medium heat. Once heated through, add the chicken, soy sauce, mirin, and sake. Cover with a lid and steam for 2 minutes.
- Once cooked, spread everything out into a shallow metal pan to cool.
- Place the rice into the rice cooker bowl and add the chicken soup stock. Adjust the amount with water until it reaches the 3 cup line. Place the ingredients from Step 6 on top and lightly stir it up. Cook the rice as normal.
- Once cooked, thoroughly mix the ingredients into the rice.
- Pile it into a rice bowl and garnish with shredded nori to enjoy!
- To prepare cheap chicken.
Chicken rice generally comes in two forms - roast chicken and steamed chicken. I personally prefer the steamed chicken variation. One can find chicken rice stalls at almost every corner here in Singapore, but this recipe is special. This is the way my mum makes it, and the way I make it. It's quick, it's simple, it's healthy and I have been thinking about it all night long.
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