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Claypot Chicken Rice, Rice Cooker Recipe
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This recipe is one of my mum’s 拿手好菜 (specialty) when I was a kid. She basically dump the chicken and lup cheong to cook with the rice in a rice cooker and you have a super yummy one-dish-meal quite effortlessly. This is also the “claypot-less” way to make claypot chicken rice – with a rice cooker.
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Like all my mum’s recipes, they are quite straightforward and need minimal ingredients – in this case, just chicken, lup cheong and common Asian pantry stuff like soy sauce, ginger and oyster sauce.
I’ve wanted to cook this for a very long time but according to my mum, I couldn’t do it with my previous rice cooker because the rice cooked too fast. Yes, my previous rice cooker was an el cheapo, S$30 basic keep warm/cook type which cooks rice in about 10 minutes flat! Really love it but unfortunately, it wasn’t built to last. The thermostat malfunctioned after a few months and after the second one broke down, I decided it was time to look for a more durable rice cooker. I finally settled on a rather high tech (neuro fuzzy), made-in-Japan zujiroshi rice cooker. The rice cooks perfectly and the rice at the base of the pot do not dry up even after keeping warm for a few hours. The only flip side is, it takes like 30 minutes to cook the rice! Well, at least, I consoled myself, I can now cook this dish which I have missed eating for some time.
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Marinade chicken pieces with dark soy sauce and oyster sauce. |
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Grate some ginger and squeeze the pulp to get about 2 tsp ginger juice. According to my mum, this step is very important but when I’m busy, I just substitute this step with a few slices of ginger. Add the juice to the marinated chicken pieces. Update: Use a ginger grater to grate ginger the easy, fast and safe way. |
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Slice the lup cheong diagonally. Tip: Soak them in hot water for 5 minutes before removing wax covering (thanks reader Michell for sharing the tip via comments). |
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Wash rice and add water to cook rice. Set to cook. Open the lid of the rice cooker to check when the rice is almost 3/4 cooked (the water is almost dried up; pictured). Each rice cooker is different and will take different timing to reach this state. for mine, it takes 20 minutes. |
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At this point, add the chicken, lup cheong and a few slices of ginger. I did not add the leftover marinade sauce as it will cause the rice to become soggy. Close the rice cooker lid and continue cooking. My rice cooker cook for a further 20 minutes before it sounds the chime indicating the rice is done . You should “keep warm” the food for at least another 20 minutes after the rice is cooked to ensure that the chicken and lup cheong is cooked through. |
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Use a spatula to mix the ingredients thoroughly with the rice. After doing so, your rice will become brown from the soy marinade. Garnish with fried shallots and chopped spring onions. |
Hi, may I know which step did you put in the ginger juice? Thanks :)
Oh dear I forgot to write that! sorry I’ve amended the recipe. I added the ginger juice to the marinated chicken pieces :)
I am going to cook this tonight!
Do you think instead of adding 1 cup rice : 1 marking of water (same type of rice cooker, mine is toyomi’s), I can add slightly less water to cook the rice and pour in the remianing gravy?
Hi are you Angela on Facebook? If so, I’ve replied your comment there. I said that you can try adding a mixture of water and sauce instead of water alone if you want to use more sauce. I hope it well well, do give me your feedback :)
Great. I don’t own a rice cooker. But do you think that’ll stop me from replicating this dish?
Negative.
hehehe…
This is very practical and looks great. I’ve never made a meal in a rice cooker, but after seeing your recipe, I will try!
I love lap cheong fried rice and this looks so tasty! I love the fact that you used the rice cooker and cut back on the oil but it still looks like fried rice. Great recipe!
I have to admit I’ve never tried doing anything like this before. It looks and sounds delicious!
When you use your Zoji cooker to cook this, you set to ‘WHITE RICE’ OR ‘MIXED’? Cos the manual has a recipe close to this and it says dump everything in right from the start and set to ‘MIXED’. Thanks for your help. I’ll like to try this out too! Yum.
Hi CH, sorry for my late reply. I set it to white rice, I have yet to explore the Mixed button.
Hi Wiffy,
Great recipe! I’ve tried cooking it but added carrot and onions to the rice.
It taste great and it’s so easy to make. My kids and hubby loves it too!!
Hi Wiffy,
Came across your blog while surfing the net. This is a great recipe. Do you have any other rice cooker recipes to share? Coz i’m thinking of buying a rice cooker for the office so that i can cook my own lunch everyday…
Hi Crystal, do a search (top left corner of blog) for “rice cooker”and you find all the recipes where a rice cooker was used. wow cooking at the office, that’s something new to me ;)
Hi Wiffy,
Yesterday I’ve tried this recipe but also added cai xin. It’s easy and yummy! My husband who doesn’t likes lup cheong told me he had changed his view of lup cheong after yesterday’s dinner. :D