Ingredients:
Chicken Wings / Chicken Thigh (Something with the skin on so that the chicken fat trickles into the rice when it cooks - optional)
1 cup of rice (washed)
To put in with rice:
Ginger slices (finely chopped; few slices)
1 pandan leaf (Cut into thirds so that it fits in the cooker)
1/2 small shallot (sliced)
1 teaspoon of minced garlic (finely chopped; more will be more fragrant)
Chicken stock powder
Olive oil 1 tbsp
To marinate chicken overnight:
1 teaspoon of sesame oil
1 tablespoon of light soya sauce (optional)
A dash of white pepper (optional)
Pinch of salt (optional)
Garlic (optional)
Ginger (optional)
(For adult- Add some chinese wine if you like).
Instructions:
1. Marinate the chicken meat overnight.
2. When you are ready to cook, place the washed rice with water, ginger, pandan leaf, shallots and garlic into the electric lunch box’s larger metal tin.
3. Pour chicken stock powder into the rice mixture.
4. Arrange the marinated chicken on top of the rice.
5. Cook for 30 minutes. Add an egg if you like.
Note:
1. Can include some goji berries and ginger slices, chicken skin, a knob of butter for the flavour. Can opt to add in pandan leaves knots and garlic cloves too for a stronger flavour.
2. Can mix quinoa with some pearl rice for a boost of flavour.
3. Just a few drops of sesame oil and Shaoxing rice wine on the steamed chicken to add more flavour.
4. Can opt to marinate chicken overnight with pinch of salt, garlic, ginger, and sesame oil.
5. For adult - if you have chicken rice chilli to go along, this would be an absolute comfort meal.
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Friday, 29 May 2015
Electric Lunch Box Chicken Rice
Food Art Ideas
To transform sausage into a rabbit:
Ingredients:
Sausage
Carrots (boiled)
Cheese (use a knife to cut)
Seaweed (to cut nose and eye)
My Melody Onigiri
To make pink rice – put chopped beet root into hot water and leave it for a while to let the water become deep pink. pour small amount pink water into the rice n mix well.
To make make brown rice (for making a waffle bowl) – mix the rice with soy sauce
To shape the rice - using cling wrap to mold each portion
1. mold the white rice into the ball shape n the pink rice into a flat shape
2. wrap the pink rice around the white ball
3. Now u've got the face part of My Melody!
After this, mold the pink rice for her 2 ears in the same way as making her face
Attach the ears to the face by using uncooked spaghetti sticks
Mold the brown rice into the waffle bowl shape n decorate with thin lines of nori seaweed
To make her bow – mix mashed potatoes with pink icing(gel type) color, mold into a bow shape and decorate with dots of uncolored mashed potatoes
Wear the bow to her head
Cut nori sheet to make eyes n mouth, cut pumpkin for nose and attach on the face
Put My Melody's head (sounds so scary~) on the waffle shape rice
....
And it's done!!
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