Chicken Rice (Khao Man Gai)
Chicken Rice (Khao Man Gai)

Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, chicken rice (khao man gai). One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Chicken rice in China and in Singapore, the chicken is often boiled, then doused in a bath of ice water, in Thailand that is usually not the case, especially for street food style khao man gai (ข้าวมันไก่) - instead the chicken is just boiled and left to cool down on its own. Aromatic fluffy rice cooked in chicken broth and fried garlic, juicy chicken, refreshing soup and a sauce with a kick to it, that's how I would describe. Khao man gai or khao mun gai, literally meaning oily rice [with] chicken, is one of the most popular Thai dishes; it can be found everywhere in Thailand from streetfood stalls to restaurants.

Chicken Rice (Khao Man Gai) is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Chicken Rice (Khao Man Gai) is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have chicken rice (khao man gai) using 12 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Chicken Rice (Khao Man Gai):
  1. Prepare 2 Chicken thigh, large
  2. Get 360 ml Uncooked regular white rice
  3. Take 1 Ginger
  4. Prepare 1 tbsp Chicken soup stock granules
  5. Get 2 tbsp Sake
  6. Make ready 1 dash less than 1 tablespoon ● Doubanjiang (or ra-yu)
  7. Get 3 tbsp ● Mirin
  8. Make ready 3 tbsp ●Soy sauce
  9. Take 1 tsp ● Vinegar
  10. Take 1 tbsp ● Honey
  11. Make ready 1 tbsp ● Japanese leek, finely chopped
  12. Take 1 tbsp ● Sesame oil

It is quite popular in Thailand, but not often served at Thai restaurants in the west. The dish consists of lightly seasoned boiled chicken, served at room temperature, along with hot steamed white rice that has been cooked in water with a. Thai chicken rice, or khao man gai, is similar to Hainan chicken rice in that it's a complete meal: when you order it, you get chicken, rice and a clear broth made from the bones of the bird. So this is "Fat Rice" or, in other words, rice cooked in chicken fat.

Instructions to make Chicken Rice (Khao Man Gai):
  1. Rinse the rice, and mix with the sake and chicken stock granules. Put into the bowl of a rice cooker and add a tiny bit less water than usual. Slice up half of the ginger and add.
  2. Remove any excess fat from the chicken, and pierce the skin and the thick parts of the meat several times with a fork. Add some sake and salt (not listed in the ingredients) and massage in well. Put on top of the rice in the rice cooker, and switch the cooker on.
  3. Combine the ingredients marked ● (doubanjiang, mirin, soy sauce, vinegar, honey, chopped leek, sesame oil) to make the sauce. Taste and adjust the amounts of the ingredients. (A sauce made by combining chopped leek, garlic, ginger, mirin, soy sauce and sesame oil is also delicous.)
  4. When the rice cooker stops let it rest and steam for 10 minutes. Take the chicken out and slice into easy-to-eat pieces.
  5. Put the rice on a serving plate. Top with chicken, tomatoes, cucumbers, snow peas cooked in salted water etc. as garnish, plus finely julienned ginger. Pour the sauce over it and serve. (Take the sliced ginger in the rice out before serving.)

Khao Man Gai, one of the most common street foods in Thailand, is, in short, a mutation, albeit controlled, of Hainanese chicken and rice. Then again, it should be noted that Khao Man Gai should not be regarded as a failed attempt to replicate the original and, therefore, inferior. Tender chicken, chicken-fat-infused rice, and gingery dipping sauce, it's a classic for a reason! The traditional way to make Hainanese chicken rice is a bit of a project. You can find that method in my older post here, but basically you gotta poach a whole chicken, which takes a long time and a very.

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