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

Hey everyone, it’s Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, chicken rice (khao man gai). One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Chicken Rice (Khao Man Gai) is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They are nice and they look fantastic. Chicken Rice (Khao Man Gai) is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

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. The name "Khao Man Gai" translates to Rice from Chicken Fat. Also when cooking the rice if you're chopping the garlic look at the video to see how they should be chopped.

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

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

Some restaurants will serve it together with liver and blood tofu. You can choose fried chicken or grilled chicken at most of the restaurants too. Fried Chicken Rice is called "Khao Man Gai Yang". Grilled Chicken Rice is called "Khao Man Gai Thod".

Steps 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.)

Few slices of cucumber are placed on the side. Khao Man Gai is the Thai version of a Hainanese Chicken and Rice. 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 little rendered chicken fat and other. Chicken rice die-hard fans will tell you that it's the sauce that will make or break the khao man gai (ข้าวมันไก่) - and I'm not one to argue about that.

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