UT Dinner Malaysian Dinner COOK: Kamil Amir
Ashraf Mazlan
Hainanese Chicken Rice Buah melaka (Dessert)
May 11, 2012
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Malaysian Dinner COOK:
May 11, 2012
Kamil Amir Ashraf Mazlan MENU Hainanese Chicken Rice Buah melaka (Dessert)
Hainanese Chicken Rice
Hainanese chicken rice originated in China and has been adopted mainly in Malaysia.
Ingredients:
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1 whole chicken • 1 head of garlic 1 large ginger • 10 green onion 1 pack fresh red chilli soy sauce rice vinegar
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1 small pack of Jasmine rice 1 cucumber 1 lettuce 4 tomatoes
Thoroughly clean 1 whole chicken (It is very important not to cut the chicken or tear the skin at this point).
In a food processor, roughly blend 2 green onions, 3 cloves of garlic, 2 inches ginger. Stuff this into the chicken. Add about 2 tablespoon each of light soy sauce and rice vinegar into the chicken cavity.
Put cold water into pot. Very roughly cut some ginger and spring onions and add to the water. Put the chicken in, making sure it is fully submerged. Turn on stove to the highest heat, and wait until it boils. When water has boiled, reduce the heat to the lowest setting, and cook for 1 hour.
While boiling the chicken, let’s prepare rice! Roughly mince 2 cloves of garlic and 1 inch of ginger.
Fry them (the best is in chicken fat, second best butter. if you don’t have any use vegetable oil) until very slightly browned.
Add 2 cups of rice and 1 teaspoon of salt. Stir everything together making sure rice is thoroughly mixed with oil, ginger, garlic. Add chicken broth cooked earlier and cook rice.
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Mix some soy sauce, sesame oil, sugar and salt in a small cup. Pour this mixture on the chicken and massage it in, making sure all parts of the chicken is covered with this.
Hainanese Chicken Rice
Serve chicken rice with fresh, undressed salad of lettuce, cucumber and tomatoes.
Ginger-garlic Sauce & Chilli Sauce
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Ginger-garlic Sauce - Blend equal amount of garlic and ginger in a food processor. - Add 1 teaspoon sesame oil and some salt. - Fry mixture until very slightly browned. Serve.
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Chilli Sauce
- Blend, chilli, ginger, salt, sugar, vinegar, some chicken broth (instead of water) in a food processor. Serve.
For soup: - Taste the chicken broth for salt. Serve.
A Small TIP for Cooking
How To Peel Ginger
Easily With A Spoon
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Buah melaka
Ingredients for Buah melaka: • Pandan Leaves • 500g of Glutinous Flour • Few sticks of Palm Sugar • 500g of Desiccated Coconut
Use a blender to process a bunch of pandan leaves, adding water. Strain through a fine sieve to have pandan extract.
Mix glutinous flour with pandan juice.
Roll a dough into a ball. Flatten and place small pieces
of palm sugar. Roll it again into a ball.
Put the ball into the boiling water slowly. When it is cooked, it floats up.
Remove the balls with a slotted spoon and shake off the excess water. Place them in dessicated coconut. Roll each of the ball.
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