Lia's Style Hainaneese Chicken Rice

I love this dish! For some reason this is one of my fave home cooked dish! When I was flatting with Nia she used to cook this chicken heaps! I think she learned this recipes form her mom. I won't say its quick and easy but Its not bad! It took me about an hour to cook this food for lunch today. which is not bad.. considering how many things you need to prepare for it aye. I am puting down the recipes for 1 whole chicken, that was what I did today. If you don't want to use whole chicken its fine too, you can totally use chicken pieces. The reason why I used whole chicken today was that a size 16 chicken was on special in count down only $10 and I can't resist. LOL Anyway now I am sort of still having a temporary flatmate, I can cook for 2! yay! So you can adjust the rest for smaller portion :)

Ingredient:

1 x Size 16 whole chicken
a thumb size garlic
1.5 Liter of water
1 ts of salt

Chicken seasoning
1.5 bulbs of garlic (~ 10 cloves)
10 cm ginger
10 Tbs Sesame oil
4 Tbs cooking oil
6 Tbs fish sauce (please adjust according to your liking)

Rice Seasoning
1 packet of Prima taste Hainaneese chicken rice pouch
2 cups of rice
6 Shiitake mushroom (I used fresh ones, you can use the dried ones if you like)
1 ts sugar
3 Tbs of fish sauce

What to do:

Add water in a big pot and the chicken. Peel and slice your ginger and add it together with the salt. Boil on high with open lid until water is boil, then lower the heat and close the lid and boil for another 20 minutes. Turn it off and close the lid, leave to settle for another 20 minutes. the heat of the water will cook the chicken thoroughly.

Chop garlic (extra fine) and grate the ginger. If you prefer you can put them together in a blender. Heat a pan with 4 Tbs of cooking oil and fry the garlic ginger mix on low heat. Add the sesame oil gradually. Once they turn golden brown add the fish sauce. Make sure to remove from the heat straight away after the addition of the fish sauce, because it will burn the mixture faster.

Cooking the rice is the easiest bit. Cut the shiitake mushroom as desired. then mix 1 pouch of the prima taste fragrant hainaneese rice seasoning, sugar and fish sauce with the rice. Instead of using water to cook the rice, use the Chicken stock from the boiled chicken. Cook in the rice cooker as per normal.

So once the chicken seasoning is cooked, I de-boned the chicken and add the seasoning to the chicken and mix it well. At this stage if you think you need abit more taste, you can always add extra sesame oil, fish sauce or sugar.


This is what the rice looked like after cooking... at this point i like to mix the rice so the yummy mushroom are evenly distributed in the rice. Serve the rice with the chicken and any asian vegies, such as Bok choi, Choi sam or Gai lan. Anyway.. below are my left over for lunch tomorrow! YAY!