ONIGIRI CHICKEN RICE

ONIGIRI CHICKEN RICE

  • Dairy free
Our take on the local favourite of chicken rice.
	    
               
  • 60 mins

    Cooking Time

  • Hard

    Difficulty

  • 30 mins

    Prep Time

  • 12 People

    Serves

  • 1 kg short-grain rice, washed and rinsed
  • 1.2 litre water
  • 2 cube chicken stock cube
  • 3 stalks pandan leaves
  • 50 g rendered chicken fat
  • 200 g shallots, minced
  • 50 g garlic, minced
  • 50 g old ginger, peeled and sliced
  • 320 g big red chilli, stem removed
  • 80 g chilli padi, stem removed
  • 60 g garlic, peeled
  • 80 g young ginger, peeled and sliced
  • 250 ml water
  • 1/4 chicken stock cube (dissolve in water)
  • 120 g sugar
  • 60 ml kalamansi lime juice
  • 60 ml white vinegar
  • 30 ml fish sauce
  • 1 whole chicken (3.5 lbs, 1.8 kg), preferably organic
  • 40 g old ginger, peeled and sliced
  • 2 stalks pandan leaf
  • 2 stalks white spring onions cut into 1" sections (both the green and white parts),, crushed
  • 5 g sesame oil
  • 30 g Shaoxing rice wine
  • 30 g fish sauce
  • 3 litre water
  • 3 cubes chicken stock cube

  1. In a large wok, fry the shallots, garlic and ginger in the chicken fat until aromatic, about 5 minutes

  2. Deglaze the pan with chicken stock (made with water and chicken stock cubes)

  3. cook rice in rice cooker with pandan leaves and chicken stock

  4. Let cooked rice cool slightly and form into onigiri shapes

  5. Blend the chillis, garlic, ginger, sugar, lime juice in a food processor until a fine paste

  6. Add the chicken stock, vinegar, fish sauce and mix well

  7. Blend the ginger together with sesame oil, shaoxing wine and fish sauce

  8. Marinate the entire chicken with the above blended mix of ginger and sauces, including the inside of the chicken

  9. Fold pandan leaves and spring onions and insert into the cavity of the chicken

  10. Leave to marinate overnight in fridge

  11. In a large pot, bring chicken stock to a roilling boil

  12. Place chicken into pot, making sure it is submerged, reduce heat to a gentle simmer and poach for 1 hour

  13. Remove from heat and submerge in ice water

	    
           

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