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Serves 4
Recipe by: Bon Vivant
Ingredients:
For the chicken:
1 pound/ 450 grams chicken meat (from the thighs or breast), deboned and sliced into 2-inch pieces
1 tablespoon cornstarch
3 teaspoons Chinese rice wine
3 teaspoons sesame oil
A pinch of salt
METHOD:
Whisk the cornstarch, rice wine, sesame oil and salt in a bowl, then pour it over the chicken pieces, mixing well to coat. Set aside for 30 minutes while you prepare the rest of the ingredients.
Claypot rice:
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
3 cloves of garlic, minced
A 2-inch piece of ginger, peeled and thinly sliced
1 ounce/ 28 grams dried shiitake mushrooms, rehydrated in hot water and sliced
2 ounces/ 56 grams dried Chinese sausage (Lap Cheong), sliced
10 ounces/ 280 grams white rice, rinsed in cold water until the water runs clear and drained
2 teaspoons light soy sauce
2 teaspoons sesame oil
¾ cup of water, at room temperature
5 ounces/ 140 grams leafy green vegetables, like bok choy, gai choy, dou miao or spinach, rinsed and roughly chopped
1 tablespoon dark soy sauce
1 teaspoon sesame oil
Method:
Heat the oil in a wok or a deep frying pan, then add the garlic and ginger, frying until fragrant. Add the marinated chicken and stir. When the meat starts to brown, add the mushrooms and chinese sausage, stirring for a minute to mix well.
If you’re using a claypot, place it on a hob and turn the heat to low.
Add the rice to the wok and turn the heat to high, mixing as you go to allow the rice to fully absorb the flavor of the other ingredients. Add the light soy sauce and sesame oil to the wok and keep stirring and mixing for another 2 minutes.
Turn off the heat and transfer the contents of the wok to the claypot. Add the water, then cover and increase the heat to medium.
Leave the ingredients to cook for about an hour, checking-in every 15 minutes and giving the rice a stir or two.
After an hour, add the vegetables, cover and turn the heat to low for 10 minutes.
Drizzle the dark soy sauce and sesame oil over the vegetables and serve, with the claypot as your centerpiece.
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Thanks for sharing,I love the setup, and clay pot rice is awesome!Cheers
I love claypot chicken rice but never have the patience to make it at home. I tried once and the rice at the bottom of my claypot was so burned but the upper side was not cooked. I also like to add some salted fish on top of it. I love this dish. YUMMY!
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We LOVE claypot rice especially the crunchy part on the bottom. Seafood, chicken, beef all so yummy in this comfort dish. Thanks for sharing the great recipe. I have only made the Vietnamese style w/caramel sauce on the bottom-can’t wait to try this recipe.
TIA!
I love claypots, and chicken rice too! Another great recipe :) I’ll try to find the time to make this over the weekend!
Danielle,
Will this work in rice cooker?
Wonderful photos and very nice recipe too.
Thanks Tuty! Yes you can – just transfer the wok-fried grains of rice to the rice cooker, add water and leave to cook.
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Looks like it turned out great. Such beautiful, beautiful pictures!!!
I’ll have to consider getting a clay pot. They are a great cooking vessel and so rustic. FYI, Puerto Rican’s call the crunchy bit at the bottom of the pan pegao.
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claypot chicken rice is one of my all time favourite foods!! sadly though, the hawker stalls/food courts these days resort to ‘shortcuts’ when preparing this by cooking everything ready and just plop them into a claypot for a final heating up before serving :(
time to get my own claypot! lol
Is that water amount right? We tried making this tonight, and had some trouble. The water was not enough, so we put it another 2 C (which made it look right), which I think was too much – we declared it done after something like 45 minutes total, and the rice texture was not quite right. To be fair, I’ve always sucked at making rice on the stove, even using my magically fantastic Chinese sand pot.
Now, that said, it was absolutely delicious enough that I really want to make it again and debug and adapt the recipe more to my taste!
Thanks for sharing!
Danielle-please refer to Danielle (Bon Vivant)’s comment below regarding the water.
that looks really good! The kids will sure love this! thanks
Looks fabulous! Thanks, Danielle.
Would love to try out this recipe, even though I don’t have a claypot. Hope it works in my Le Creuset pot :P
You mentioned that the heat should be low when u place the claypot on the hob. Is the heat turned even lower when you add the vege?
Hey KL Chang, please refer to Danielle’s reply below.
Hi, Bee
Another excellent recipe in your site!
I want to make it today or tomorrow, but I am really not sure about water/rice ratio. 3/4 cup of water to 1 1/4 cup of rice doesn’t seem to be right.
Alex, please refer to Danielle’s comment below about the water ratio.
My usual rice to water ratio is 5 ounces rice to 6 ounces (3/4 cup) water (147 grams rice to 170 grams water), and for this recipe, I halved the amount of water I usually use as I wanted to avoid overly-soggy rice in the final product. As a rough guide, the water level should match the level of rice when you pour it in. If the water is significantly higher than the rice level (such as when you cook in a rice cooker), then you’ve added too much.
Danielle: 2 cups of water is too much for the amount of rice here. If you want to vary the amount of water, I’d suggest starting with 3/4 cup and adding more in stages up to a maximum of 1.5 cups. Try not to add too much at one go as it might make your rice too soggy and prevent the bottom layer of rice from crisping. Also, keep your heat as low as possible to gain more control over the cooking process. Good luck and let me know how it goes!
kl_changs: If you’re using a Le Creuset for this, you won’t need to pre-heat your pot before adding the rice. I included that step for sand claypots as they’re susceptible to cracking when heated too quickly. For the vegetables, I turn the heat to low and let the residual heat from the pot and rice cook the greens.
Alex: As I mentioned to Danielle, you could add up to a maximum of 1.5 cups of water for this amount of rice, but begin with 3/4 cup and add as you go. You will need to gauge how the rice is cooking for your pot and amount of heat to determine if more water should be added for the consistency that you’d like. Unlike the traditional way of cooking plain rice, the sesame oil and juices from the chicken and mushrooms also add moisture to the rice, hence my suggestion not to add too much water too quickly to avoid having an overly-soggy product.
Thanks everyone for your comments and keep the questions coming!
Hi, Danielle,
Thank you for your prompt replay.
It is definitely a go, I’ll make it this week, when I am done with my lamb and lentils curry.
Looks delicious. I could eat Lap Cheong staight out of the bag!
Thank you for this lovely recipe. We love chicken rice and this is another way of making it. Tried it last nite, not a grain left in the claypot…yummy!!
I add the water, after the last frying process + seasoning, stir everything together then add the rice. So i have no worries that the flavours dont get to the dry rice. Wd appreciate, if you can give us the recipe for the chilli sauce that comes with chicken rice?
More recipes please… :-)
Wow, I love this dish and thanks for the recipe! When I was in Penang, Malaysia, claypot chicken rice became my official comfort food.
I looove savoury rice with lots of ingredients! The aroma must be awesome during cooking, yum, yum :)
Wow! Totally agree that the burnt bits are the best part! I am a certified cheater – using the rice cooker and all.
Great post,I love this dish and thanks for the recipe!
thanks for the recipe.the white claypot in the picture is totally out of this world.could u please tell me where to get it. thanks.
Hi Mlvn, they are from Sur La Table.
This is a different version of claypot chicken rice! :) It looks yummy.
Danielle, you made me laugh out loud (a term I use when people’s writing makes me laugh involuntarily, I love it.) I share your philosophy about quick weeknight dinners vs special or weekend cooking. I completely empathize with the planning and execution process – all part and parcel of the whole dinner, exhausting but so rewarding.
My mom who was born in S’pore makes this dish for us too but uses sticky rice and choy sum. Must be her personal spin, so addictive. You’ve inspired me to make this dish but over a weekend, ha, ha.
I like the dish, and definitely a family favorite of mine! I enjoyed the background information you provide early on as well :) I’m a new blogger on Chinese recipes, so it’s very nice to browse around other blogs to notice other wonderful content! :)
Danielle, what is the purpose of the cornstarch used in the chicken? Or should it be corn flour?
My water level matched the level of rice but my rice still turned out soggy. :(
Hi Esther, the cornstarch is used as a thickening agent so that the marinade coats the meat better and ensures that the flavors penetrate the meat.
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i like is very much thanks!
Do you have a recipe for crab rice? or crab with vermicelli in pot?
Wow! Totally agree that the burnt bits are the best part! I am a certified cheater – using the rice cooker and all.
This article is very useful, I have been looking for, thank you.Very good！
Just made this for lunch and it was absolutely fantastic! Thanks very much for sharing and I look forward to trying your other recipes :)
i think your cooking is a bit slow which is 30 minutes slower than normal, and quite eloborate in terms of ingredients.. but nonetheless..thanks…
there are variety of claypot chicken rice available. but i prefer without salted fish and mushrooms.
Thank you for all of the recipes you’ve posted (and guests have posted :] )! I’ve been following your blog for a whole and absolutely love your little anecdotes and pictures. I just recently purchased a clay pot from a Japanese “dollar” store (Daiso) and was wondering what is a “hob?” I tried looking it up but could not find any results. Thanks!!
Hi Florence,
I am not sure. Where did you see the word hob?
A hob is the flat top part of a cooking stove, or a separate flat surface, containing hotplates or burners. The kitchen stove tops that you see in the kitchen section of supermarkets are called gas hobs.
I cooked this tonight.. about 1 1/2 portion from the recipes.. using rice cooker instead of claypot.. cause I don’t have one. it taste good..