ONE-POT Hainanese Chicken Rice
Enjoy the best silky fragrant chicken on rice with my one-pot Hainanese chicken rice recipe!
Servings: 2 people
Ingredients
- 2 cups White rice or mixed with soaked whole grain rice
- 2 Chicken thigh boneless skin-on
- 2 tbsp Lemongrass minced, or dried lemongrass powder
- 3 tbsp Coarse sea salt
- 1/2 Cucumber sliced
- Scallions finely diced for garnish
- Red pepper flakes for garnish
Instructions
- At least 4 hours before cooking, marinade chicken thigh with coarse sea salt and lemongrass
- Fill ricecooker with rice and liquid to the 2-cup marking, start the ricecooker to start cooking
- As liquid begins to boil in rice cooker, place marinated chicken over rice. Cover to continue cooking
- When ricecooker finished cooking, let sit for 5 mins
- Open lid, cut chicken into 1 cm-wide strips, place them back on top of rice along with any oil that is released on the cutting board
- Garnish with scallions and red pepper flakes and serve with cucumber slices
Notes
Optional: add in finely diced ginger in chicken marinade for extra exotic flavor. This was omitted in mine because hubby is allergic to ginger!