Bonairean Hainanese Chicken

Bonairean Hainanese Chicken Recipe

Ingredients:

6 chicken legs with skin on and 2 thighs with skin off and bone in from Warehouse. Make sure not expired.

In case Warehouse is out of chicken, there's one running around near Kaya Corona.

3 cans of Campbells chicken broth, or was it 2 cans?  Also from Warehouse or Sunshine Supermarket.  Also make sure not expired.

1 thing of garlic.  the whole round thing.  don't know what its called.  From Cultimara.

1 thing of fresh ginger from Cultimara

green onion and hot peppers from Warehouse or Cultidrama.

4 carrots from Warehouse

salt

cilantro

1/2 a lemon or lime, which ever you can find

some cherry tomatoes, or anything similar you can find (Warehouse)

long grain rice (Warehouse)

sesame oil

olive oil or vegetable oil, whatever they happen to have. (Warehouse)

OK, I think we can start now.

1. Put 2 or 3 cans of chicken broth in a pot with 1 1/2 can of water and a capful of vinegar.  Add 2 habanero peppers if you can find them and like spicy food.

2. Start boiling it.

3. Meanwhile, chop 4 slices of ginger and throw it in.

4. Smash 3 cloves of garlic and throw it in.

5. Wash a handful of cherry tomatoes and throw them in the pot.

6. Cut more ginger.  One slice for each piece of chicken.

7. Same with the garlic (thin slices)

8.  Rinse the chicken.

8 1/2. If it’s the chicken you found on Kaya Corona, kill it and rinse it again.

9.  Make one inch cuts in each piece of chicken and stuff ginger and garlic in.

10. Sprinkle salt on chicken.

11. Once chicken broth is boiling, place chicken in.

12. Set timer for 13 minutes.

13. Cover pot and leave stove on high until water boils for 1 minute.

14. Leave pot covered and turn stove to medium.

SAUCE

15. Grate 3 tablespoons of ginger.

16. Chop finely 4 cloves of garlic.

17. Squeeze 1/2 lemon.

18. Chop 1 tablespoon of cilantro.

19. Put above 4 items in sauce bowl with a pinch of salt and dash of sesame oil.

BACK TO THE CHICKEN

20. When timer rings, cut open one piece of chicken to check if cooked.  OK if a little pink around the bone because it will continue to cook itself.

21. Turn off stove.

22. Place chicken on plate to cool.

RICE

23. Rinse 3 cups of long grain rice.

23 1/2. Peel and chop the carrots.

24. Chop 3 cloves of garlic and 4 slices of ginger and saute in a pan with a tablespoon of sesame oil and a tablespoon of olive oil or vegetable oil.

25. Make sure garlic and ginger does not burn.

26. Place uncooked rice and carrots in pan.

27. Add some chicken broth and saute everything.

28. Place in rice cooker with enough chicken broth to cover rice + 1 cm. (3.5 - 4 cups)

29. Turn on rice cooker.

BACK TO THE SAUCE

30. Put 3 tablespoons of greasy layer of chicken broth in sauce.

Once rice is finished, serve with chicken on top with sliced green onion and cilantro.  Chicken broth can be served as soup.