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Hainanese chicken rice

Poached chicken, rice cooked in the stock. Quietly perfect.

That was somebody else’s answer. Yours takes about twenty seconds: a handful of either-ors, then one dish.

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How to make hainanese chicken rice

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Poached and quiet

60 minutes · serves 4 · Not hard, just fussy

What you need

  • 1 whole chicken
  • Thumb of ginger, sliced
  • 4 spring onions
  • 300g jasmine rice
  • 2 garlic cloves, minced
  • Sesame oil
  • Soy, chilli and ginger, for the sauces

What you do

  1. 1Sit the chicken in a pot with the ginger and spring onions, cover with water, bring to a bare tremble.
  2. 2Poach 35 minutes at that tremble — never a boil — then lift it out into iced water for 5 minutes. That is what makes the skin.
  3. 3Keep the stock. Fry the rice with the garlic in a little sesame oil, then cook it in the stock instead of water.
  4. 4Joint the chicken. Serve on the rice with a bowl of the remaining stock.
  5. 5Make two sauces: soy with a little sesame, and chilli pounded with ginger. Both, not one.