"Watermelon Superman Kitchen " – Hainanese chicken

Hainan is one province in southern China. Hainanese chicken rice is a dish adapted from early Chinese immigrants originally from Hainan.

To make the best Hainanese chicken, the most important two factors are 1. Simmer until it’s cooked 2. Put the chicken in the ice water after it cooked.

Ingredients

• 1-1.5kg whole chicken
• 1 garlic
• 2 green onion
• 1 ginger
• 1 cucumber
• 1 Cilantro
• 20ml soy sauce
• 2 tsp sugar
• chilli sauce

Instructions

1. Cut large slices of ginger, green onion. Put the onion, ginger, garlic in the cold water and boiling a pot of water.  the water needs to drown the whole chicken.

2. Put the whole chicken in boiling water for 1 minute only and carefully remove it from the water.

3. When the water boiling again, put the whole chicken in the boiling water and using the smallest fire stew for 25 minutes.

4. prepare 2 pots of ice water, remove the chicken directly into the ice water, soak 2- 3 minutes. Remove the chicken from another pot of ice water and soak for 15 minutes.

5. prepare sauces - soy sauce, chili sauce, ginger sauce, my favorite sauce is the ginger soy sauce (boiling the water with soy sauce and sugar, put the sauce in the small bowl and add some great the ginger)

6. remove the chicken from ice water and chopped it, the bottom of the plate can be put some cucumber slices, and then pour the sesame oil and put some cilantro on the chicken

If you want to cook chicken rice, you can use chicken soup and Hainan chicken rice sauce.

I hope you enjoy the Hainan chicken, it’s easy to be cook with simple ingredients. You really should try it. If you have any question, please don’t hesitate to contact Watermelon Superman 😊

By Qiwen Li