Hello Hiveans! This week's Qurator's HIVE Top Chef Theme is Ginger and let's see how many gingers I have crushed to make this week's dish 'Hainanese Chicken Rice'. To make this dish needs a lot of planning to ensure I meet all the required ingredients. A typical set of Hainanese Chicken Rice consists of Chicken Rice, Hainanese Chicken, Chicken Soup, Chilli Sauce and Soy Sauce. I am so happy to enjoy a good dinner with my family while also making a blog for HIVE Top Chef this week's challenge 'Ginger'.
Hainanese Chicken Rice
Ingredients
1 kg chicken
2½ cups rice
3 tablespoons chicken stock
1-inch ginger (sliced)
14 garlic cloves
2 onions
5 red chilies
4 birds eye chili
1 tbsp vinegar
2 teaspoons sugar
3 tablespoons soy sauce
1 tablespoon sesame oil
3 tablespoons vegetable oil
Salt (to taste)
Ice
Chicken preparation ~ Rub with salt and boil
- Clean and rub the chicken with salt. This method of rubbing the chicken with salt will make the chicken skin look shiny later.
- Rinse the chicken with water to remove excess salt.
- Place the chicken in a pot and add water until the chicken is completely inside the water.
- Cover the pot over medium heat, leave to boil for 1 hour.
Soak the chicken in ice
- After 1 hour of boiling the chicken, close the fire, and remove the chicken from the pot, leave the chicken stock for soup later.
- Place the ice in a bowl.
- Put the chicken in the ice and leave the chicken to soak in the ice for 10 minutes.
- Hainanese chicken is eaten in the way, the chicken is cold. Ice soaking can stop the cooking process and can retain the juice which gives a better texture to chicken skin.
Chicken is ready, garnish with spring onions
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Chicken Soup preparations
- Slice onions and ginger. Add 1 cinnamon stick, star anise and cloves.
- Add to the boiling soup and leave to boil for 15 minutes.
- Soup is ready. Garnish with spring onions.
Chicken Rice preparations
- Crush ginger and garlic and add 1 tablespoon chicken stock. Mix well.
- Wash rice and add water to the right measurement.
- Add the ginger mixture.
- Add 1 tablespoon vegetable oil. Mix well.
- Add 1 teaspoon sall. Mix well.
- Cook rice to perfection.
Chicken Rice is ready, garnish with spring onions
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Prepare the chili sauce
Using a blender, grind large red chilies, bird's eye chilies, 8 cloves garlic, 1-inch ginger, 2 tablespoons chicken stock, 1 tablespoon vinegar, 2 teaspoons sugar, and 4 tablespoons water.
Prepare the Soy Sauce
Soy Sauce, Chilli Sauce and Chicken Soup are ready
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Hainanese Chicken Rice is ready
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That concludes my presentation for Qurator's HIVE Top Chef Cooking Challenge this week with Ginger as the theme.
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Looking at the photo, I wanted to eat :-)
Thank you @ludmila.kyriakou and wishing you a pleasant day, cheers, ainie
@ainie.kashif Thank you very much!
I wish you a good week!
There are so many of my favorite ingredients in there. I love how nice dinner looks at your place. It's so inviting and warm.
All the best and good luck!
Thank you @carolynstahl and are you going to do any fancy ginger thingy, looking forward to your fancy ginger version my friend, cheers, ainie
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Thank you @anggreklestari and @foodiesunite team for your kind curation and visit on my page. Wishing you a pleasant day and please stay safe, cheers, ainie
Wow ainee, you've prepared a feast here! I really appreciate the tip about placing the chicken in ice to stop it drying out, that's brilliant! Everything sounds and looks so aromat, your family is very lucky! Good luck with the contest;)
Hi @lizelle, so kind of you to visit my post, thank you my friend. Yes, I was thinking of doing a proper sit-down dinner for my family that we could all eat together and enjoy a great dinner and so happens that the theme was ginger and the Hainanese Chicken Rice which mostly use ginger as its main ingredients was a favorite of my family that I can cook and then we all enjoy our dinner happily together. cheers my friend, ainie
That looks absolutely yummy i love the flavor of ginger in foods 👍
Thank you Max, so kind of you to visit my post. I want to tell you that the Pink Banana has ripened today. I ate it and it tasted so sweet not like a normal banana. The smell also not so strong as a normal banana. I am surprised how it tasted and smell. It's definitely a unique banana species.
WoW...They do really look pink and juicy i am glad you liked the taste and smell i found exactly the same thing when i first tasted them almost like they have a little vanilla taste in them well you might not be eating normal bananas anymore if you have them available and cheap over there 😊
Yes you are right, I now have a totally different change on my banana liking. This pink banana now is my favorite banana. Imagine I knew this only because I was helping you to find one, awesome right! Life's little surprises :D
It's good to have a change especially when it's better so happy you have taken a liking to these pink bananas i haven't had much luck with the purple bananas but still trying to locate position will keep you updated Agent 99 😁
Beautiful dinner and your recipe sauce really delicious. Cheers!!
Thank you my friend @sreypov, so happy you come to visit my post. Yes this dinner is a success and we really enjoyed the dish, cheers, ainie
how are you dear friend @ ainie.kashif good day
This dish looks very delicious, I really appreciate that you let us know the recipe and the step by step of the preparation
have a wonderful day
Hello my friend @jlufer, thank you so much for visiting my page. I find this dish quite challenging to do with many steps and ingredients to prepare but overall it was a success and a good dinner for my family. Thank you for your kind compliment and wishing you a pleasant day, cheers, ainie