How to make hunan ginger chicken rice

This traditional healthy chicken recipe is all the time favorite in most Asian country, if you love ginger flavor chicken you will love this one.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• 2 pcs whole chicken
• or 4 pcs whole cornish hen
• 20 cloves garlic
• 2 pcs ginger
• 2 bunches green onion
• 1/2 bunch of chives
• 1 bunch cilantro
• salt
• pepper
• soy sauce
• green pepper
• green thai chilly pepper (optional if you like spicy)
• sesame oil (optional)
• Corn starch or tapioca starch
• jasmine rice
• THIS RECIPE MAKE 8 SERVING MEAL

1. Boil chicken for 1 hour. Scoop out chicken fat that floating on the surface of chicken broth. add a little bit salt, pepper and sugar.
2. Roast garlic with a little bit oil. put 5 pieces of roasted garlic into chicken broth.
3. Remove chickens into another pot/pan. Add cold ice water to cool it down. Discard water and slice those chickens.
4. To make sauce, add the remaining of roasted garlic, ginger (peel and cut it in small pieces), chives, green onions, salt and pepper into food processor until it form a paste.
5. Add 1/2 of those sauce on the top of chicken pot. mix cold water with corn starch or tapioca starch add into the pot. Pour few cup of chicken broth. Boil for another half an hour. Add cilantro. Add a few drips of sesame oil if desire.
6. To make the rice. Wash rice, put it into frying pan, add 4 spoons of butter. Turn on stove with low heat. Add 1/4 of sauce and mix them well.
   Move it into rice cooker add 2 cups of chicken broth. Cook it until tender.
7. Add the remaining sauce into chicken broth. Reheat for another 10 minutes then add cilantro.
8. To make spicy sauce, put green pepper or cubanelle pepper, green onions, thai green pepper, salt, cilantro into food processor mix it for 1 minute or until it's mixed well
9. Serving suggestion:
   Mold cooked rice into small cup. Put it on the plate, put chicken next to it and garnish with cilantro. Serve chicken broth on the side.

Tips & Warnings

• You can add carrots into chicken broth as well and reheat for 10 minutes or until tender.