Hainanese Chicken Rice Made Easy For Two

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 2
• 2 chicken breast halves
• 1 slice fresh ginger (thumb)
• 2 tablespoons minced garlic (from a jar is fine)
• 32 ounces chicken broth (pre-made, with salt)
• 2 cups long grain rice
• 3 1/2 cups chicken stock (reserved from chicken)
• sesame oil
• shrimp paste (found in oriental groceries)

Recipe

• 1 mince ginger and garlic, if needed.
• 2 place all the ingredients for the chicken - chicken breasts, ginger, garlic and chicken broth - in a pot (if needed, add water until chicken is covered) and boil until chicken is done. it is done when it comes apart with a fork.
• 3 take the chicken breasts out of the pot, place on a plate and coat in sesame oil.
• 4 cool stock.
• 5 add rice to rice cooker and 3 1/2 cups liquid from the pot to the rice cooker and cook rice according to manufacturer's directions.
• 6 cut chicken breasts into thin slices, serve on rice with shrimp paste.