Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Bored? Cook a Kampong Chicken Rice


There are times we got bored from eating outside and decided why don't we try Hainanese Chicken rice using Kampong Chicken. We actually seldom try Hainanese Chicken Rice outside because most of the hainanese chicken are medium rare where you can still see the blood from the meat. I have nothing against half cook chicken but it is just not for me and my wife as well as for my 2 yrs old son and 6 yrs old daughter.

One thing good about cooking from home is that you will be able to adjust according to your preference so the question is how you are going to cook it like the hawker hainanese chicken rice well done :).
Fortunately my dear wife have invested on a set of saladmaster pot in which you can actually cook a chicken without having to boiled them for 1 hr and the resulting stock will yield a concentrated chicken stock that will be good for making your chicken rice. I believe any good stainless steel pot or claypot will be able to do the same job.


Here's my recipe:

1 Kampong Chicken (Native Chicken)
Note: If you can get a free range kampong chicken that will be the best.
A bunch of spring onions
1 lemon grass
1 garlic clove
1 red onion
1 small size ginger
sea salt
sesame oil
1 tbsp thai fish sauce (patis)
dash if freshly ground black pepper

Chili sauce
4 pcs big red chili pepper
1-2 pcs chilli padi (Depends on how hot you want it you can add more)
2 tbsp cane or cider vinegar
sweet soy sauce or Indonesian ketchup manis (Sweet sauce)
2-3 tbsp chicken stock
freshly squeeze lime juice

Garnish

spring onions
coriander
1 pc tomato
cucumber

Wash the Kampong chicken thoroughly on running water remove any visible feather from the skin. Rub the whole chicken with sea salt including the inner side. Cut the onion and the ginger and stuff some of the onion, garlic, lemon grass and spring onions inside the cavities of the chicken.

Place the remaining Onions, garlic, Ginger and spring onions into the saladmaster wok then lay down breast side the chicken. Pour half glass water, a tbsp of thai fish sauce, and a dash of black pepper. Put on the lid of the saladmaster wok and simmer at low heat for 45 mins.


After 45 mins turn off the fire and let the chicken stand covered in the pot for another 15 mins as it continue to cook. After 15 mins uncover then remove the chicken remove the stuffing then soak it on ice cold water to stop the cooking then brush with sesame oil then set aside. Meanwhile strain the chicken stock and then set aside the garlic, onion, ginger and discard the spring onion and lemon grass. Meanwhile prepare your rice if you want to cook from the scratch you can do so by washing the rice and saute with the chicken stock from the chicken then add water and pour into your rice cooker or if you are hungry by now just mix a cooked white rice then add a bit of salt/thai fish sauce.

For the chilli sauce pound the garlic, onion, and ginger from the chicken stock includes the red chilli and the chili padi add the cane/apple cider vinegar, 1 tbsp freshly squeeze lime juice, sea salt and about 2 - 3 tbsp of the chicken stock.
Cut the tomatoes, cucumber and chicken then arrange on plate garnish with fresh spring onions and coriander leaves drizzle with some light soy sauce. Serve with the chicken rice, chili sauce and sweet sauce and fresh garlic saute leafy vegetables. Enjoy your meal with your family.

4 comments:

Welcome to my headspace. said...

Hungry Dad, this sure brings back memories of my trips to Singapore (for work or business). I love the Singaporean food culture. Do you ever make chilli crab at home?

Kate said...

hello hungry dad! thanks for the info about the philippine fish available here in SG. i don't know why it took me so long to find bangus here! thanks again and will be dropping by your blog often.

Hungry Dad said...

Hi Lou, Yup I did try chili crab before. It's been a long time since I last cook chilli crab. It maybe the best time to have one again....stay tune :)

Hungry Dad said...

Hi Meow, Nice blog you have there. Hope you don't mind if I put a link to your blog