Fragrant Clay Pot Chicken Rice

Fragrant clay pot chicken rice is usually cooked with vegetables, eggs, yam, tofu, capsicums and many other food. Whatever ingredients you use, the secret to getting a tasty dish is to fry the ingredients first before adding to the half cooked rice. Cooking in clay pot will make the dish more appetizing and enhance the aroma of the rice. Some people like the burnt rice at the bottom of the cooked clay pot rice. It has a unique flavour.

Ingredients:

1 cup rice

1.2 cup water

2 tbsp vegetable or peanut oil

1 tsp salt

1/2 tsp pepper

1 chicken drumstick

1 tsp light soy sauce

1 tsp dark soy sauce

1 tsp oyster sauce

sliced spring onions for garnishing

1 mushroom (soaked and sliced thinly)

1 small piece salted fish

1 Chinese sausage (sliced thinly)

1 small piece ginger (sliced thinly)

Method:

1. Chop the chicken drumstick into three pieces.

2. Marinate chicken drumstick with light and dark soy sauce, oyster sauce, oil, pepper and salt. Store it in fridge for at least an hour.

3. Heat up 1 tablespoons of oil and fry ginger, Chinese sausage, salted fish and mushrooms till fragrant.

4. Add 1 cup of water with 1.2 cup of rice into the clay pot and cook it in medium heat.

5. Once the water begins to boil, add marinated chicken to the rice. Reduce the heat to low and simmer with the lid on.

6. After 15-20 minutes, the rice should be ready.

7. Sprinkle some spring onions on top of the rice.

8. Serve it while it's hot.

Note: This recipe is for one serving only. If more serving is needed, increase the ingredients accordingly.

For more information and pictures of the fragrant clay pot chicken rice, go to the following website: http://asianfoodandrecipes.blogspot.com/2010/09/fragrant-clay-pot-chicken-rice.html

The author has 30 years of cooking experience. She specializes in asian food recipes and emphasises on easy to cook recipes with added health benefits. View her recipe collections in her website here: http://www.asianfoodandrecipes.blogspot.com

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