Hainan Chicken Rice

This is a quite famous Singaporean dish. Recipe from my friend, Fanny Birner.

Ingredients

2 or 3 Boneless Chicken Breasts 

3 cm Fresh Ginger, pound it

2 ½ cup Jasmine Rice

3 ¾ cup Chicken Broth

2 cloves of Garlic, chopped then fry in a low heat until yellowish browned

1 ¼ tbsp. sesame oil

1 tsp. oyster sauce

1 ½ tsp. salt

Sauce:

1 scallion, sliced

3 cm fresh ginger, cut it into slivers, then saute in a medium heat for a couple minutes

80 ml soy sauce

1 tbsp. sesame oil

2 cloves of garlic, chopped then fry until crunchy

Hot chillies, sliced (optional)

Directions

1. In a rice cooker, add in rice, chicken broth, pounded ginger, fried garlic (yellowish browned), sesame oil, oyster    sauce, and salt. Stir to mix well and cook. About 10 minutes before the rice is done, open the rice cooker, stir the rice mixture again, remove ginger and let it continue to cook.

2. Cook chicken breasts then cut into chicken strips.

3. Make the sauce; Mix sliced scallion, sautéed ginger, soy sauce, sesame oil, crunchy fried garlic with a little bit of oil from frying the garlic. Stir well, then pour over the chicken strips. Save some amount of the sauce for dipping sauce. And add in sliced chilies in the dipping sauce.