Sous Vide Hainan Chicken Rice
 
Prep time
Cook time
Total time
 
Using sous vide method to make the ultimate Hainan Chicken Rice with all the fixings
Author:
Recipe type: Main
Cuisine: Chinese
Serves: 2-4 servings
Ingredients
Chicken
  • 2-3 lbs whole chicken
  • 2 tbsp kosher salt
  • 1” ginger
  • 5 stalks green onion
  • 1 tsp sea salt
Chicken Rice
  • 3 cups uncooked long grain jasmine rice
  • 2 tbsp chicken fat
  • 1 tsp sesame oil
  • 3 cloves garlic
  • 1” ginger
  • 3 cups of chicken stock
  • 1 tsp salt
Chili Sauce
  • 10 fresh red chili
  • 4 cloves garlic
  • 1" ginger
  • 1 tbsp lime juice
  • 2 tbsp chicken broth
  • 1 tsp salt
Ginger Sauce
  • 3” ginger
  • 4 stalks green onion
  • 2 tsp salt
  • ¼ cup vegetable oil
Sides
  • cucumber
  • cilantro
  • soy sauce paste
Instructions
Chicken
  1. Cut chicken up to have wings, legs, thighs, and deboned breasts and add ginger and green onion to sous vide.
  2. Sous vide chicken at 150°F for 1.5 hours, remove breast
  3. Sous vide legs and thighs for another 30 minutes
  4. Using the remaining carcass and make chicken stock by adding water, ginger, green onion and salt.
Chicken Rice
  1. Render chicken fat, stir fry with ginger and garlic and sesame oil until fragrant.
  2. Add in rice and continue stir-fry until rice is a bit translucent
  3. Put contents into rice cooker and add chicken stock
  4. cook rice according to rice cooker instructions
Chili Sauce
  1. Remove seeds from red chili (optional)
  2. Blend ingredients in a blender until smooth
Ginger Sauce
  1. Finely grate ginger and mince green onions
  2. Heat up oil until smoking
  3. Pour oil onto ginger and green onion mixture
  4. Add salt to taste
Sides
  1. Garnish with sliced cucumbers and cilantro
  2. Pour out soy sauce paste as another dipping sauce
Recipe by It's My Dish at https://itsmydish.com/hainan-chicken-rice/