Hainanese Chicken Rice Easy One-Pot Recipe for Tasty Meals
If you’re looking for your next delicious pot dinner, this is it: Hainanese Chicken.
Have you ever eaten Hainanese chicken rice? Are you as passion with it as I am? I think the answer is no because I have a deep and lasting passion with chicken rice.
It’s my ultimate comfort food, my favorite food of all time, my version of Anton Ego’s mother ratatouille. You know, the scene in the Pixar movie where Anton is taken back to his mother’s kitchen and she serves him ratatouille and everything is fine with the world. This is Hainanese chicken rice for me
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What is Hainanese chicken rice?
Hainanese chicken is deceptively simple, but somehow complex. It is originally from Hainan, southern China, but its spiritual homeland is Singapore, where you can find interpretations of the ever-popular dish everywhere, from street vendors to upscale hotels.
I would action to the passed away to say that Hainanese chicken rice is the best interpretation of chicken and rice on the market. It is so modest, so delicious and so pure. At its core, Hainanese chicken rice is just that: chicken and rice.
The chicken is poached in a simple but spicy broth spiced with ginger, garlic and spring onions and is silky, firm and tastes like the most perfect chicken you’ve ever had. The accompanying rice should be self-sufficient: full of chicken flavor, smoothed with fat, tasty and fragrant.
Chicken and rice
All cultures have a kind of chicken and rice. Japanese have oyakodon, Latin Americans have arroz con pollo and Southeast Asians (and Hainans) have Hainanese chicken rice. Like most chicken and rice dishes, it’s basically simple: poached chicken and seasoned rice, served with a variety of sauces.
As with many immigrant-friendly foods, there are actually a number of different types of Hainanese chicken rice: Singaporean, Malaysian, Vietnamese, and Thai. When I was growing up, it was a staple in our house. Chicken rice is the food that can take me back to my childhood and put me in some of my favorite memories as an mature. I’m not ashamed to say that chicken rice is everything to me.