Claypot Rice - The Easy Way

This is a yummy one dish meal which is well received by the Asians called the Claypot Rice . Rice cooked in claypot with dried mushroom slices, marinated chicken pieces , chinese sausages and garnished with scallions , fried onions and sliced chili.  Easy to prepare and deliciously yummy! 

I cooked this for dinner when I am lazy to prepare anything more elaborate for my Piggies and I tell you, they love it ! 

Marinate the chicken pieces (1/2 chicken cut into pieces ) with ginger juice, oyster sauce, thick soysauce, light soysauce, sesame oil, pepper and chinese cooking wine for 1 hour. Meanwhile, cut the chinese sausages into 1/8 inch slices in a slanting manner and cut the soaked dried black mushrooms into strips.

Fry sliced onions in oil till crispy and keep aside for garnishing. Cut scallions and chili for garnishing too :)

I used the rice cooker to cook this as my claypot was a wee too small :)  the traditional way of cooking this is by charcoal fire and in a claypot..haha but nowadays people used the rice cooker for convenience sake. Nothing beats the traditional way though…it taste better if cooked in a claypot under the charcoal fire. And when we desire to eat the traditional way of cooking , we eat out :) Momsie is not going to start a charcoal fire and wait till the rice is cooked…too tiring for me but I was tempted though to cook this when we had barbeque the last time but then everyone was too full already coz they had a sumptuous feast with those grilled lamb shoulders and beef :)  Well, food for thought though…the next time you have a barbeque party you can have this claypot rice dish as an additional item for those who are rice takers! ‘ fun thung ‘ in Cantonese :)))

Claypot Rice

Serve 4 person

Ingredients:

Rice – 2  milk tins (condensed ) full
( I used condensed milk tin for measuring the rice grains)

½ chicken cut into bite sized pieces and marinate with

3 tbsp of ginger juice,
1 tbsp of thick soysauce
1 tbsp of light soysauce
2 tbsp of oyster sauce
2 tbsp of cooking wine
½ tbsp of sesame oil
A dash of white pepper

3 chinese sausages – cut slanting -1/8 inch thick
6 dried Chinese mushrooms – soaked and cut into strips

Garnishing

8 shallots – slice thinly and fry till crispy
Scallions and chilli cut for garnishing

Method:

Washed the rice grains and cook as you normally cook your rice but take note , reduce the water a bit coz the marinated chicken will produce water when you add to the rice later.

Meanwhile, stir fry the marinated chicken, mushrooms, and sausages till ¾ cooked. Add to the rice when the rice is ¾ cooked. When it is fully cooked, stir the ingredients together with the rice. Add in a bit of thick soysauce for color if desired.

Serve hot, garnished with the cut chilli, scallions and the onions crisps.

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