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

Rice Cooker Recipes

The rice cooker is normally used as a tool to cook rice in most Asian families. This is probably one of the first kitchen appliances that we bought when we moved in to our own home. For years, we used it to cook white rice and porridge and on some rare occasions, we cooked some bean desserts with it.

When the pandemic started last year and during the Circuit Breaker (lockdown), we cooked all 3 meals every day. It is tiring to cook 3 meals each day for a prolonged period of time. So we thought of some simple and easy way of cooking some of the meals. And hence, the birth of our one-pot-rice or rice cooker recipe series.

Our good old rice cooker