Replacements
Dark Soy Sauce:
- Just use regular soy sauce (but note that regular soy sauce is much saltier than dark so use a little and balance with more sugar)
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Ingredients
- 1 whole chicken
- 3 whole green onions (green and white), sliced in thirds
- 1 medium sized ginger, sliced
- 5 tbsp of salt
- 2 cups of rice
- 2 cups of chicken stock (from cooking the chicken)
- Fried chicken skin and chicken fat (from the chicken before cooking)
- 3 cloves of garlic
- Ginger garlic sauce
- 1 medium sized ginger
- 5 cloves of garlic
- Salt
- 1/4 cup of neutral oil
- Soy sauce
- 1/4 cup dark soy sauce
- 2 tbsp of white sugar
- 1/4 cup chicken stock
- Chili garlic sauce
- 2 thai chilis
- 4 tbsp of vinegar
- 4 tbsp of chicken stock
- 3 cloves of garlic
- Salt
- Green onion garlic oil
- 2 green onions
- 2 cloves of garlic
- 1/4 cup of neutral oil
- Salt
Steps
Chicken
- Salt your chicken, spreading a layer of salt throughout the entire chicken and let rest for at least 30 minutes to a few hours
- Cut out some of the skin and fat, taking from the back cavity of the chicken
- Fill a big pot with water, 3 green onions (chopped into thirds), sliced medium ginger, 5 tbsp of salt and bring to a boil
- Clean your chicken, removing all salt
- Once the water is boiling, carefully lower in the chicken breast side facing up
- Have the water come up to a boil again
- Lift up the chicken so that the inside of the chicken is filled again with the boiling water
- Close the pot with a lid
- Turn off the heat
- Let the chicken sit for 50 minutes in the hot water with no heat
- Take the chicken out after 50 minutes and let rest on a cutting board or pan while you prep the rice and sauces
Rice
- Fry the chicken fat/skin in a pan for about 5 minutes, or until the skin gets crispy (you should see a bunch of oil that rendered from the chicken skin)
- Add in your garlic and fry for a few seconds
- Add in your rice and let toast for a few minutes
- Add this mixture into a rice cooker with the 2 cups of chicken stock
- Cook in rice cooker
Green onion oil
- Chop your green onion and garlic super finely
- Mix together with oil and salt in a bowl
- Alternatively, you can put all the ingredients in a food processor and blend together
Sweet dark soy sauce
- In a small pan, heat up the chicken stock and sugar until the sugar has dissolved
- Add in your dark soy sauce
- Put over heat until desired thickness (the sauce should be the consistency of simple syrup)
Ginger garlic sauce
- Finely chop or food process your ginger and garlic
- Add in oil and salt and stir
Chili garlic sauce
- Finely chop or food process your chili and garlic
- Add in vinegar, salt, and chicken stock and stir
Assembly
- Cut the chicken best as you can into chunks, so best way I can describe it is 1) breast, 2) thighs and 3) wings. You can also choose to shred the chicken by hand (easiest)
- Put rice and reasonable amount of chicken onto a plate
- Put sauces in individual bowls and serve!
Replacements
Dark Soy Sauce:
- Just use regular soy sauce (but note that regular soy sauce is much saltier than dark so use a little and balance with more sugar)
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