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Hainan chicken

Level
very easy
Serves
4 personnes

Ingredients

1
beautiful chicken 1,5kg
3 tablespoons
kosher salt
1
piece of ginger about 5cm coarsely chopped
3
crushed garlic cloves
3
green shallot branches (1 branch cut into 2 and 2 branches finely chopped)
1
crushed and chopped lemongrass branch or 1 CAS of chopped and thawed lemongrass
3 tablespoons
sesame oil (1 case for cooking rice and 2 cases for sauce)
2 cups
rice
1t
soy sauce
2 tablespoons
sambal oelek or to taste

Directions

Step 1
Spread the salt over the skin of the chicken and massage it well.
Step 2
Rinse the chicken well in the water.
Step 3
In a pot large enough, add water and put on the heat to the maximum and wait for the first broth. Add the chicken. Cook exactly 2 minutes.
Step 4
Remove the chicken from the pot and put in a large bowl and strain in very cold water until the chicken is cold.
Step 5
In the chicken cavity, put 1 case of salt, 1 case of ginger, 2 crushed cloves and 1 green shallot stalks cut in 2. Close the chicken cavity.
Step 6
Put the chicken back in the pot and cook the chicken for 30 minutes covering it.
Step 7
After 30 minutes, turn off the heat and leave the chicken in the pot with the lid for another 30 minutes without touching.
Step 8
Put ice in a large bowl and add the chicken. Leave for 10 minutes and remove immediately and dry. Do not discard the broth.
Step 9
In a skillet over medium heat, put 1 case of sesame oil, add the ginger, garlic, a little green shallots and half of the lemongrass. Cook well while mixing. Add the 2 cups of rice and mix well.
Step 10
Transfer to a saucepan or rice cooker and add 4 cups reserved chicken broth. Cook the rice for about ten minutes.
Step 11
Meanwhile, make the sauce by mixing, 1 t of soy sauce, 2 cases of sesame oil, 1 tart of ginger, the remaining green shallot and lemongrass and divide into 4 small individual bowls.
Step 12
Taste with the rice bowl by dipping the chicken pieces in the sauce. Make a soup with the remaining broth if desired.

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