Delicious and Simple Chicken Rice One-Pot-Rice

Chicken rice is the most popular local hawker food in Singapore. Almost every hawker centre will have at least one stall selling this. Some stalls score well in the chicken and some in the flavoured rice and some in the sauces. Regardless of the scores, most Singaporeans just can’t get enough of this. It’s a comforting plate of food.

We love a good plate of chicken rice. But we couldn’t go out during the Circuit Breaker (lockdown) last year and didn’t want to pay for food delivery. So we attempted to cook this at home using a rice cooker. We used secrets shared by some chicken rice stall owners and improvised and cooked it using a rice cooker. The flavour turns out to be fantastic, especially the rice. I have shared this on my Instagram and many have tried it and love it. Some told me that they've cooked this many many times as her family can't get enough of it.

Chicken rice

We cooked the chicken rice rempah before adding it together with the chicken and rice in the rice cooker. The fat from the skin of the chicken and the rempah infused with the rice so that the rice is so flavourful.

Ingredients

450g                  Boneless chicken legs with skin
2                         Pandan leaves

1 rice cup          Rice

220ml                Water or Unsalted chicken stock

1/2 tsp               Salt

Rempah:

4                         Garlic

2                         Shallot

1 thumb size    Ginger

Chicken seasoning:

1.5 tbsp            Chinese cooking wine

1.5 tbsp            Sesame oil

1/2 tsp              Salt

1.5 tbsp            Corn flour

1 tsp                  White pepper

Dressing sauce:

1/2 tbsp           Light soy sauce

1/2 tbsp           Sesame oil

1 tsp                 Honey

2 tbsp               Water 

Instructions

1. Marinate the chicken with the seasoning and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
2. Blend the ingredients for the rempah in a hand blender or food processor.
3. Heat up a pan with some oil. Add in the above and fry until it’s flavourful. Set aside.
4. Wash the ice and put into the rice cooker pot. 
5. Add the pandan leaves and rempah.
6. Dissolve 1/2 tsp of salt in the water and pour into the rice cooker pot.
7. Lay the marinated chicken on top of the rice. 
8. Cook it in the Rice mode.
9. While waiting for the chicken rice to be cooked, prepare a dressing sauce. Mix the sauces for the dressing sauce and set aside.
10. When the rice is cooked, remove the pandan leaves. Take out the chicken and cut them into slices.
11. Mix the rice and the rempah and plate them on a plate. Then add the chicken on top of the rice and drizzle some sauce over.

You can refer to the cooking video of this to see how easy you can make this plate of chicken rice for you and your family.