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Recipe Hainanese Chicken Rice

Hainanese Chicken Rice Recipe

  • Difficulty Level: 3
  • Serves Serves: 6
  • Preparation

    15 mins

  • Cooking

    55 mins

Chinese Food | Chicken Rice or Noodle Dinner Lunch Over 60 mins
This Hainanese chicken rice recipe features gently poached chicken served with fragrant rice cooked in a rich broth and finished with a savory ginger-scallion dipping sauce. A flavorful, well-balanced dish that’s perfect for any occasion.

What You Will Need

Ingredients

  • *****Hainanese Chicken*****
  • -----Ingredients-----
  • 1 whole chicken (about 2½ lbs.)
  • 1 tsp. cooking oil
  • 2 ginger slices
  • 2 green onion stalks
  • 2 lemongrass stalks, crushed
  • ¼ cup Shaoxing cooking wine
  • water as needed
  • -----Seasoning-----
  • 2 star anise pods
  • 1 cinnamon stick
  • 1 tsp. turmeric powder
  • 6 Tbsp. Lee Kum Kee Concentrated Chicken Bouillon
  • 8 Tbsp. salt

Marinade

  • *****Chicken Flavored Rice*****
  • -----Ingredients-----
  • 3 cups white rice
  • 6 cups water
  • 1/8 cup coconut milk
  • 1 green onion stalk
  • 2 ginger slices
  • 2 lemongrass stalks
  • 5 Tbsp. butter
  • -----Seasoning-----
  • 6 Tbsp. Lee Kum Kee Concentrated Chicken Bouillon

Dipping

  • *****Dipping Sauce*****
  • -----Ingredients-----
  • 1/8 cup chopped scallion
  • 1/4 cup minced ginger
  • 6 Tbsp. cooking oil
  • -----Seasoning-----
  • 1 Tbsp. salt
  • 1 Tbsp. Lee Kum Kee Concentrated Chicken Bouillon
  • 2 tsp. Lee Kum Kee Premium Pure Sesame Oil
  • 4 Tbsp. Lee Kum Kee Soy Sauce for Hainanese Chicken

Made with
Lee Kum Kee products

Concentrated Chicken Bouillon

Bouillons

Concentrated Chicken Bouillon
Premium Pure Sesame Oil 14 fl oz (410 mL), Bottle

Sesame Oils

Premium Pure Sesame Oil

How to make it

  1. Hainanese Chicken

    Directions

    1. Clean chicken. Drain and pat dry.

    2. Heat oil in large pot, sauté ginger, green onion, and lemongrass (crushed). Add cooking wine and water (water should cover the entire chicken). Add all seasoning ingredients.

    3. Bring to a boil, then set on low heat and cook for 10 minutes. Place chicken in seasoning broth, keep on low heat and simmer 45 min. until fully cooked. Remove chicken, drain, and let cool. Debone and cut into pieces.
  2. Chicken Flavored Rice

    Directions

    1. Rinse rice with water. Drain and place in rice cooker.

    2. Add water, coconut milk, and 3 Tbsp. Lee Kum Kee Concentrated Chicken Bouillon. Mix to combine. Place green onion, ginger, and lemongrass on top. Start to cook.

    3. Remove green onion, ginger, and lemongrass when rice is finished cooking. Add butter and remaining 3 Tbsp. Concentrated Chicken Bouillon to rice and mix well. Ready to serve.

  3. Dipping Sauce

    Directions


    1. Mix scallion, minced ginger, salt, and Lee Kum Kee Concentrated Chicken Bouillon. Heat up the cooking oil and pour in ginger and scallion mixture. Add Lee Kum Kee Premium Pure Sesame Oil and mix well.

    2. Use the ginger and scallion mixture from Step 1 and Lee Kum Kee Soy Sauce for Hainanese Chicken as dipping sauces.

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