It is a one pot Ginger Rooster and Rice dish impressed by Hong Kong clay pot rice – besides we’re utilizing a daily pot in the present day! You’ll love the ginger-forward flavour and the secret 2 ingredient sauce that I anticipate to indicate off once more very, very quickly.
One-pot Ginger hen and rice
I wished to name this “Hong Kong Ginger Rooster and Rice” as a result of it’s impressed by the normal methodology used to make Hong Kong claypot rice the place plain rice is cooked in a claypot, topped with meat and greens that steams because it cooks, and completed with a drizzle of seasoned sauce on the finish.
The whole lot was written up and able to go. Then my brother noticed it (sure, the identical one who tried an early model of my Chilli Lime Fish and gave the well-known suggestions line “There may be nothing about this that I like”), snorted with laughter and declared, “You’ll be able to’t name it that. Hong Kong will mock you so laborious!”🤣🤣
I huffed and puffed and laughingly tried to defend my artistic writing. However honestly, I knew the battle was misplaced from the second it began given the absence of a claypot and that my sauce is a (magical! secret!) mixture of two components not generally utilized in Hong Kong.
It’s killing me to think about the smug smirk on this face as he reads this. However I’m placated on the reminiscence of him scoffing down a giant bowl of this and giving it his nod of approval! Such is the hilarious banter in my crew and household – which, hand on coronary heart, is what retains our recipe creation bar excessive.
Components you want
Right here’s what it is advisable to make this wannabe-clay-pot hen and rice. It form of jogs my memory of Maze Gohan (“blended rice”), a Japanese dish the place rice is steamed with seasoned meat and greens – and my mom all the time makes use of Asian mushrooms – besides this has a stronger flavour.
1. Rooster and rice half
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Lengthy grain rice – This rice sort works greatest as a result of it’s much less sticky than different sorts like brief grain, medium grain and jasmine rice that are liable to turning into somewhat too sticky in these type of one pot recipes (although they’ll work). Basmati rice may also work however will add a non-Asian fragrance of flavour to this Asian flavoured dish. 🙂
Not appropriate / recipe not written for these – Brown rice, risotto and paella rice. wild rice, quinoa.
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Rooster – I take advantage of boneless thighs because it stays juicier than utilizing breast when cooked with the rice, although breast and tenderloin will work.
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Inventory/broth – Utilizing hen inventory makes a tastier rice than utilizing simply water. I all the time use low-sodium so I can management the quantity of salt in a dish.
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Ginger – This recipe makes use of an excellent quantity of contemporary ginger, for unmissable ginger flavour! It makes use of each grated ginger and slices of ginger that’s cooked with the rice because it steams.
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Garlic – Extra of a background flavour on this dish, the place ginger stars.
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Inexperienced onion – We use the agency white half like onion, sautéed with the hen, and the softer inexperienced half is tossed in on the finish (it wilts inside seconds within the sizzling steamy rice).
2. Any mushrooms
Attempt to use mushrooms favoured in Asian cooking. They add extra fascinating texture and flavour than common button mushrooms, and they’re usually good worth at Asian shops. I used king oyster mushrooms, oyster and shiitake mushrooms, pictured under left to proper.
Nonetheless, this recipe works simply effective with any mushrooms in any respect! I’d completely make this dish with common white mushrooms.
We’re utilizing an excellent quantity of mushrooms in the present day – 500g / 1 lb – as a result of it’s the first vegetable on this dish and we’re utilizing the juice from the mushrooms to flavour the rice and likewise present a few of the cooking liquid for the rice (which is why the liquid-to-rice ratio is 1 : 1.33 as a substitute of the same old 1 : 1.5)
3. Tasty drizzle sauce
Hong Kong claypot rice is usually cooked with simply water and a lot of the flavour is reliant on a seasoned soy sauce combination which is drizzled on on the finish when serving. Ordinarily, the clay pot sauce requires a handful of sauces however for this recipe (supposed as a helpful midweek-er), we’re taking a shortcut with 2 components not historically used however delivers related layers of flavour:
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Kecap manis (aka Ketjap Manis) – Indonesian candy soy sauce with caramely flavour and a syrupy consistency. The flavour is a lot extra fascinating than simply utilizing common soy sauce plus sugar!
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Fish sauce – Umami shortcut. No, you received’t style any fishiness as a result of we don’t use a lot (we use extra kecap manis than fish sauce) and it’s tossed by way of steaming sizzling rice which mainly “cooks” it anyway.
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White pepper – the popular pepper in Asian cooking. Substitute with black pepper.
The way to cook dinner Ginger Rooster and Rice
A key step right here is to only sear the mushrooms on excessive warmth so they only get a lightweight color on the floor moderately than cooking them during ie. after they go watery, then the water evaporates and the mushrooms find yourself floppy. In in the present day’s dish, we would like these mushroom juices to come back out after they’re cooking with the rice so the rice can take in all that flavour!
1. Double responsibility sauce
First up, we make the sauce as we use some to flavour the hen and the remainder for drizzling on the rice later.
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Sauce – Simply combine the components in a bowl till mixed. In case your kecap manis was within the fridge, will probably be fairly thick like honey so be sure you combine effectively.
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Flavour hen – Toss the hen in 1 1/2 tablespoons of the sauce. That is simply to season it frivolously. No must marinate.
2. MAKE THE ONE-POT CHICKEN AND RICE
Tip of the day for one-pot rice cooking: Be sure you deliver the liquid as much as a very energetic simmer earlier than placing the lid on and reducing the warmth. You should get sufficient warmth going within the pot earlier than turning the range down else the rice will simply be sitting there, wallowing in sizzling water, bloating moderately than cooking = sticky gluey pot of rice as a substitute of beautiful delicate, separate rice grains.
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Sear mushrooms – Warmth oil in a big pot over excessive warmth. Then sear half the mushrooms however don’t cook dinner them till delicate, we need to end cooking them with the rice. Purpose for only a mild trace of gold on a lot of the mushrooms which ought to solely take round 2 minutes. Take away from the pot, warmth extra oil and repeat with the remaining mushrooms.
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Seal hen – Subsequent, cook dinner the hen, simply lengthy sufficient to seal the floor which ought to take lower than a minute.
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Sauté and inventory – Add the grated ginger, garlic and white a part of the inexperienced onions. Stir for 30 seconds (the ginger will scent so good!). Add the rice, stir to coat within the flavour, then pour the inventory in.
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Mushrooms – Get the liquid as much as a simmer then scatter the mushrooms throughout the floor (like a mushroom rice lid!) and add any mushroom juices amassed within the bowl.
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Cook dinner then relaxation – Deliver the liquid again as much as a really energetic simmer, then put the lid on and decrease the warmth to medium low (or low, for big stronger burners). Cook dinner 20 minutes – no peeking, no stirring! – or till the liquid has been absorbed. Take the pot off the range and relaxation for 10 minutes (with the lid nonetheless on).
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Sauce – Take away the lid and drizzle the sauce throughout the floor.
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Inexperienced onion – Add the inexperienced a part of the inexperienced onion.
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Toss – Then gently toss the rice till a lot of the rice grains are coated within the sauce and the inexperienced onion is wilted. Minimise tossing – extreme tossing makes rice mushy. Then serve!
The sauce!
It’s actually, actually tasty. The notable step that makes this totally different to the same old Asian one-pot rice recipes is including the sauce on the finish moderately than cooking the rice with it which is what I often do – like on this One Pot Chinese language Rooster and Rice. It makes it style totally different, it’s brisker, and coats the rice grains moderately than infusing into the rice grains.
And sure, someday I will share a correct claypot rice recipe! Crispy base of rice, precise claypot, correct drizzling sauce and all, one that can do Hong Kong proud! 🙂 – Nagi x
FAQ
No, as a result of Kecap Manis is made with soy sauce which isn’t gluten free. To make it gluten free, make your individual Kecap Manis utilizing tamari – see be aware within the recipe card.
3 days within the fridge. I don’t wish to hold cooked rice longer than 3 days 🙂
Sure you’ll be able to, although it is advisable to be conscious that if the greens you employ aren’t watery like mushrooms, you then’ll want to extend the liquid to cook dinner the rice (as a result of the liquid to rice ratio on this recipe elements within the appreciable mushroom juices!).
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Greens you should utilize within the recipe as written as a result of they’re watery – cabbage (massive items), zucchini.
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Greens the place you’ll want so as to add an additional 1/4 cup inventory to cook dinner the rice – broccoli, cauliflower (steam these two first), inexperienced beans, capsicum, asparagus. For the final 3, given them a lightweight sauté per recipe then steam just like the mushrooms are performed within the recipe.
Sure! Good. Might make it much more superb!! So, right here’s how I’d do it: toss the fish/prawns with the sauce like I do the hen. Cook dinner mushrooms per recipe. Then cook dinner the fish/prawns during and take away onto a plate. Then return to following the recipe as written, together with resting the rice and tossing it with the sauce. When you’ve used prawns, you’ll be able to toss it with the sauce. However for those who’ve obtained fish, gently toss the fish items by way of proper on the finish in order that they don’t crumble right into a gazillion little flakes. Then, serve!
Vital: ensure you add each drop of fish / prawn juices from the plate into the rice. Free flavour!
In contrast to some latest ones, not very many makes an attempt! I’ve performed loads of one pot rice recipes so I’m effectively versed within the ins and outs, and there’s infinite mixtures potential. It’s actually nearly getting somewhat artistic with flavour mixtures and little tweaks to maintain issues fascinating so it’s not simply the same old boring “hen and rice” recipes.
For this explicit one, Asian mushrooms had been on clearance at our native grocery retailer so JB introduced an unlimited stack, I did somewhat brainstorming and got here up with the concept for this recipe.
The unique thought got here from a Japanese rice dish my mom has been making all my life referred to as referred to as Maze Gohan the place somewhat little bit of meat and greens are steamed with rice. I like it! My favorite is that this Shimeji Mushroom one, and that’s what gave me the concept to make use of Asian mushrooms in a one pot rice meal.
However, I wished so as to add somewhat further flavour to show it right into a meal moderately than being a aspect dish, so I drew inspiration from Hong Kong claypot rice which makes use of a sauce so as to add flavour to in any other case plainly cooked rice.
Made it for lunch for the crew, obtained constructive suggestions though the rice was too mushy for my style and usually all of us felt it may use extra sauce. Mounted it within the subsequent couple of goes, then made one to movie it, then one other to {photograph} it. Then I additionally made it on Sunday “only one extra time” to verify it and made a social media reel for it.
And likewise, as per our strict coverage, JB made it to verify it as effectively utilizing the recipe I’d written up, and picked up little typos like forgetting so as to add “pinch of salt and pepper” within the components record for sautéing the mushrooms. 🙂
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Ginger hen and rice (one pot recipe!)
Prep: 10 minutes
Cook dinner: 25 minutes
Resting: 10 minutes
Whole: 45 minutes
Mains
Asian, Chinese language
Servings4 – 5 individuals
Faucet or hover to scale
Components
- 4 tbsp oil
- 500g/ 1 lb hen thighs , boneless, skinless, reduce into small chew dimension items (Observe 1)
- 1 1/2 cups lengthy grain rice , NOT RINSED (Observe 2)
- 2 cups hen inventory , low sodium
- 4 inexperienced onion stems , white half finely sliced, inexperienced flopped half reduce into 5cm/2″ lengths
- 1 1/2 tbsp ginger , grated
- 2 massive garlic cloves , finely minced
- 4 – 5 slices ginger ~5mm / 0.2″ thick (massive sufficient to simply select later), no must peel
Mushrooms (use any you need – Observe 3):
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Directions
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ABBREVIATED – Toss hen with 1 1/2 tbsp sauce. Sear mushrooms in 2 batches, take away. SeaL hen, add garlic, ginger and white half inexperienced onions in the direction of finish. Stir in rice, add inventory and ginger slices, cowl with mushrooms, steam 20 min. Relaxation 10 min, toss with sauce and inexperienced onion.
FULL RECIPE:
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Sauce – Combine sauce components in a small bowl. Toss hen with 1 1/2 tbsp of the sauce, set the remainder apart for drizzling.
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Calmly sear mushrooms – Warmth 1 1/2 tbsp oil in a big heavy primarily based pot on excessive warmth. Cook dinner half the mushrooms with a pinch of salt and pepper till a few of the mushrooms have a lightweight tinge of golden on the floor, however do not attempt to cook dinner them during (we need to do this within the rice). Take away into bowl. Repeat with remaining mushrooms.
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Seal hen – Warmth the remaining 1 tablespoon of oil till sizzling. Add the hen and stir for 1 minute, simply till the floor is sealed however inside nonetheless uncooked. Add white a part of inexperienced onion, garlic and ginger, stir 30 seconds. Add rice, stir briefly simply to coat in oil.
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Simmer liquid – Add inventory and ginger slices. Deliver to a fast simmer. Scatter mushrooms throughout floor (add any pooled liquid too), then let it come to a fast simmer once more.
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Steam 20 minutes – Put the lid on, cut back range to low (or medium low, for weak burners). Cook dinner for 20 minutes (don’t stir) till the liquid is totally absorbed.
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Relaxation 10 minutes – Take away pot from the range with the lid nonetheless on and relaxation for 10 minutes.
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Drizzle and toss – Drizzle remaining sauce throughout, add inexperienced a part of inexperienced onions. Gently toss till the inexperienced onion is usually wilted. Serve!
Recipe Notes:
Different protein – Fish and prawns/shrimp can be beautiful! See FAQ accordion above for instructions.
2. Lengthy grain rice works greatest for these kind of one-pot recipes because the rice grains are much less sticky than medium grain, jasmine and sushi rice which generally tend to get a bit too sticky for my style. Basmati may also work. Medium grain may also work fairly effectively. Brown rice, risotto, paella and sushi rice will not be appropriate for the recipe as written.
Don’t rinse. It’s not required to keep away from gluey rice as a result of we use the precise liquid-rice ratio. When you rinse, the rice will come out mushy and overly delicate (as a result of the waterlogged rice = further water in recipe = softer / mushier rice). Don’t rinse! I promise it’s effective!
3. Mushrooms – Precise weight and mixture of sorts doesn’t matter right here, use about 6 heaped cups in complete. Simply reduce them into related thickness in order that they cook dinner in the identical time.
Different veg – See FAQ! Cabbage, broccoli, zucchini, cauliflower.
4. Kecap Manis (aka Ketjap Manis) – Indonesian candy soy sauce with caramely flavour, has a syrupy consistency. Discover it at most supermarkets in Australia (Woolworths, Coles, Harris Farms). Glorious shortcut ingredient when mixed with fish sauce, makes an excellent sauce.
Make your individual: simmer 1/4 cup atypical or mild soy sauce and 1/4 cup brown sugar over medium warmth till syrupy.
Leftovers retains 3 days, or freezer 3 months.
Diet per serving, assuming 5 servings.
Diet Data:
Energy: 520cal (26%)Carbohydrates: 63g (21%)Protein: 29g (58%)Fats: 17g (26%)Saturated Fats: 2g (13%)Polyunsaturated Fats: 4gMonounsaturated Fats: 9gTrans Fats: 0.1gLdl cholesterol: 95mg (32%)Sodium: 897mg (39%)Potassium: 831mg (24%)Fiber: 3g (13%)Sugar: 10g (11%)Vitamin A: 154IU (3%)Vitamin C: 2mg (2%)Calcium: 41mg (4%)Iron: 3mg (17%)
Lifetime of Dozer
The whole lot Dozer eats in a day:
His home made meals – blitzed, baked in a sheet pan, reduce into “Dozer secure” cubes:
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hen mince (simple to digest)
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hen liver (for nutritional vitamins)
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sardines in water, no added salt (wealthy in omega-3s, good for joints)
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egg (binding and protein)
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candy potato (the starch)
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zucchini, kale and carrot (veg)
I dwell in perpetual concern of operating out of home made meals as a result of there’s no shop-bought pet food in a kind secure for him to eat (he’s vulnerable to inhaling issues into his lungs, on account of his laryngeal paralysis, which will be deadly).
His dietary supplements:
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spinal restore and joint defend – particular combine by Dozer’s magic canine physician, Neil Barnsley of Animal Holistic Therapies that replaces a laundry record of tablets and dietary supplements Dozer would in any other case be on to make his golden years extra snug. I can’t communicate extremely sufficient of Neil.
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meal completer complement Full Me – further vital as of late to make sure Dozer will get all of the vitamin he wants now that Dozer can’t eat issues he used to, like bones and uncooked offal, which had been an vital a part of his eating regimen in his pre laryngeal paralysis days.
Treats – crucial as of late to maintain him transferring, particularly when he’s a bit creaky or sore:
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The whole lot I eat and cook dinner, so long as I can put it into Dozer-safe kind!
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Cheese sticks and cheese cubes
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Nossi! (Mini cabanossi sticks) – helpful snack that’s simple to move. I hold discovering random ones within the pocket of jackets, pants, the automotive, purse – you identify it!
I do know, he’s soooo spoilt isn’t he. However, as I consistently remind individuals, he’s a very vital firm asset!! 😂
