Replacements
If you can’t find sticky (glutinous) rice:
- Use regular rice. It’s not the same but you’ll still get the same simple flavors from the toppings!
- This brand of rice is also a good alternative if you’d like to purchase it online: Thai Sticky Rice
Pork floss:
- I couldn’t even find this at my grocery store, so I would recommend frying up some pork or pork belly to go along with it
- I recommend this brand: Pork Sung
Xôi Gà
Ingredients
- 1.5 cups of sticky (glutinous) rice
- Soak these for at least a 3-5 hours if not overnight
- Chinese sausage
- Braised chicken thighs
- 1/3 cup of soy sauce
- 1/3 cup of white vinegar
- 2 bay leaves
- 6 cloves of garlic
- 1/2 onion (diced)
- 2 tbsp brown sugar
- black pepper (whole or crushed)
- Fried shallots
- Green onion
- Neutral oil
- Pork floss (optional as I did not use it here)
- Soy sauce (optional)
Steps
- After soaking your glutinous rice in water for a few hours or overnight, add to a rice cooker pot. Rinse 1-2x and fill up the water so that it measures one finger line from the rice to the top of the water
- Chicken marinade
- Season your chicken thighs with soy sauce, vinegar, bay leaves, and 3 cloves of smashed garlic
- Cook your rice on the normal setting (OR if there is a SWEET or STICKY setting, use that)
- Chicken
- Fry chicken in oil and brown on both sides.
- Take chicken out and add in diced onions and rest of garlic (minced) to the pan
- Add chicken back in with the rest of the marinade and simmer on low for 30 minutes
- If you’re making your own fried shallots, cut your shallots into thin rings/slices. Fill a small pot a few inches so that you can place in your shallots and have the oil cover it. Fry a little at a time until each batch is golden brown.
- Save the oil and set it to the side. Use residual oil or add about a tablespoon back into the pot and fry your Chinese sausage so that it is darkened a little.
- Once your sausage is done, take out the sausage and pat off excess oil.
- Slice your green onion (just the greens) and pour the remaining hot oil from the sausage over the green onions.
- Once the rice is ready, fluff it up in the rice cooker and close to let it steam just a tad longer.
- Serve the rice and place all the toppings around the rice (sliced chicken, sausage, fried shallots, pork floss). Add green onion on top of the rice.
- Serve with a side of soy sauce if desired.
Replacements
If you can’t find sticky (glutinous) rice:
- Use regular rice. It’s not the same but you’ll still get the same simple flavors from the toppings!
- This brand of rice is also a good alternative if you’d like to purchase it online: Thai Sticky Rice
Pork floss:
- I couldn’t even find this at my grocery store, so I would recommend frying up some pork or pork belly to go along with it
- I recommend this brand: Pork Sung
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