Hainan Chicken (Instant Pot). Make this Easy Singaporean Instant Pot Hainanese Chicken Rice (Instant Pot Hainan Chicken; Chinese: 海南雞飯)! Classic comforting chicken and rice meal with a homey chicken soup. Dip the tender & juicy Hainanese Chicken Sauces with a spoonful of flavorful & fragrant rice.
Add olive oil, then saute green onions, ginger, and garlic for several minutes. Pour in chicken stock and deglaze the bottom of the pot, then add chicken legs. Hainanese Chicken Rice is a rice and chicken dish that is very popular in Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand. You can cook Hainan Chicken (Instant Pot) using 11 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Hainan Chicken (Instant Pot)
- You need 2-4 of chicken thighs.
- You need 3 stalks of green onions.
- Prepare 6 cloves of garlic, minced.
- It's of Ginger slices to taste.
- It's 2 tbsp of olive oil.
- Prepare 1 1/2 cup of unsalted chicken stock.
- You need 1 1/2 cups of white rice.
- Prepare 3 inch of long piece of ginger, minced.
- It's 4 of green onions, green sections minced.
- It's to taste of Salt.
- Prepare of Peanut oil.
It is called Khao Man Gai in Thailand. It is based on Wenchang Chicken, a popular Chinese dish that has been adopted in various regions of Asia. Put the chicken into the instant pot. Pour chicken broth to the max line and season the broth with salt to taste.
Hainan Chicken (Instant Pot) instructions
- Heat instant pot on the saute function and wait until hot.
- Add olive oil, then saute green onions, ginger, and garlic for several minutes.
- Pour in chicken stock and deglaze the bottom of the pot, then add chicken legs.
- Close instant pot and pressure cook on high for 8 minutes.
- Turn off the heat and natural release when done.
- When removing chicken legs, place them immediately in an ice bath, then on a cooling rack.
- Filter the chicken stock and use it to cook the rice.
- Ginger sauce: combine ginger and green onions with a food processor, or mince by hand and place in heat-resistant bowl. Add salt to taste... more is usually required than you would think..
- Heat enough peanut oil to completely cover mix to smoking point. Place bowl in the sink and pour hot peanut oil over top. Be careful, the oil will spatter!.
- Allow sauce to cool and pour off excess oil. If ginger still tastes too "raw," sauce can be further cooked in the microwave..
The Instant Pot Hainanese Chicken Rice dish is one of the easiest, simplest, healthiest, yet utterly divine poultry dishes in the world which Filipinos love. Its cooking concept is basically poaching the chicken in a broth flavored with fresh ginger, scallions and garlic. Cooking with Instant pot using high pressure setting: Press saute on instant pot. With tongs, carefully submerge the whole chicken in the water. Bring to a boil over high heat, then immediately reduce the heat to low to maintain a simmer.