Chicken rice

Our timetables for the next semester are out and when Yushie found out that we're free from saturday to thursday, combined with the fact that i haven't cooked in weeks, she made this list of food for me to cook titledand the deadline is 15 March 2009. So i've made 4 out of the 19(i think) she requested, namely Linguine Gamberi for lunch, honey garlic chicken, sushi and this one right here.

You might think that the chicken rice is all too common to the brink of cliche' in bruneian food blogs. But to hell with cliche's, i say cook and feature what you most love and stop being fancy pancy. Seriously fattening and all too delicioso!

WHAT THE HELL YOU NEED!:

For 6 people,
50g salted butter

A handful of chicken fat, skins and stuff

Chicken carcasses and bones

3 chopped chicken legs.

4 cups of rice

A thumbsized ginger, thinly sliced

3 Tblespoons of chicken stock powder

Sesame oil to drizzle

4 cloves of garlic chopped

1 Tbsp of oyster sauce

1 Tbsp of light soy sauce

To make the garlic ginger chilli sauce

1 cup of water

7 fresh redd chillis deseeded

1 thumbsized ginger chopped

1 clove garlic

1 shallot

salt

1 Tsp sugar

1 Tbsp of lemon juice

1 tsp sesame oil

Or

1 cup of Thai sweet chilli sauce

1 Thumbsized ginger

1 clove garlic

1 shallot

lemon juce

sesame oil

Yeah, so first rub the chicken with salt and pepper and steam. What i did was place the chicken in a colander over a pot of boiling water and cover for 25 minutes.By then, the boiling water will be transluscent and golden from the chicken fat drippings. Add the oyster sauce,light soy sauce and sesame oil into it.Place the chicken on a plate and baste them with the sauce.Drizzle with sesame oil.

Meanwhile to make the rice, first fry the uncooked rice with the garlic,ginger and chicken rice using butter and oil.After 4 minutes, cook the rice with 5 cups of water(one for luck!), add the chicken stock powder and the chicken carcass. (After all this while i thought you should fry the rice After it was cooked until Zaw clarified it.Silly me.haha)

To make the chilli sauce, chuck the sauce ingredients in a blender until smoothe.

Serve with cucumber and tomato slices. Yumm.

I used the thai sweet chilli method and was convinced that it was second best but my friends begged to differ. They said the sauce was like Brunei chicken rice. hehe. My nostrils flared instantly.hehe.

End of exams!!!!!!

Finally! Exams have ended and i'm back to my usual self now haha. Wow, it's been ages ago since i've updated my blog, i forgot it ever existed! Blame holidays and exams. When my family came over, cooking became a chore which took the fun out of it. What consisted of cooking repetitive fish for dinner due to my parent's strict diet. Then exams took over, dinner consisted of microwaved frozen leftovers in front of the computer screens andon the Stewart Mason staircase. Bland and plain bad i say.

Anyways, i made this just two days after the dreaded tests. Honey garlic roasted chicken with sesame seeds. My first time using a whole chicken which the butcher was thankful for.

What i had was:

1.5 kg of whole chicken,(best use medium instead of baby)

50 g of salted butter melted

A bunch of fresh thyme

2 oranges, pierced

salt

black sesame seeds

a squeeze of honey

5 cloves of garlic chopped finely

olive oil

The bed of vegetables comprised of:

2 stalks of celery

3 carrots

1 large onion

1 red onion

4 cloves of unpeeled garlic

Firstly, rub the chicken with salt under the skin, along with the garlic and butter. Next, lodge an orange into the chicken cavity. That gives it a bit of zing. Oh, and the bunch of thyme as well. Lend a subtle aroma to the chicken. Next, cut the other orange into quarters and place an orange wedge on each side of the chicken thigh. The other 2 wedges into the cavity please. Drizzle a squeeze of honey all over the chicken ang massage it. Lastly drizzle olive oil

Next, to prepare the vegetables, chopped them roughly and make a bed on an oven tray. No need to chop the garlic.Next place the chicken on the vege bed.

Make sure you preheat the oven gas Mark 9 beforehand (15 mins). Pop them in the oven for 1 hour and 20 minutes and baste the chicken halfway. When it's cooked carve the chicken,at the thigh and drumstick joints, the wings and the breasts. Make another drizzle of honey all over.

You can even make gravy frm the chicken juices and vegetables, just add stock, simmer and reduce. You can add gravy granules (like i did) or corn flour. Just the way Zaw likes it.hehe. Do not worry if the chicken looks burnt. That's just the caramelised honey, Serweeet.

End result, well it made my friends happy . My girlfriend especially. hehe. They were quite excited on the sheer size of it. Yum yum. Photos courtesy of an enthusiastic Jerry with his new toy.