Hainan style chicken with rice

The traditional Chinese recipe for this dish involves a long and difficult rice cooking technology, which justifies itself in terms of taste, but requires some skill. In the event that you want the dish to turn out to be more dietary or you just don't want to spend a lot of time, just cook the rice and serve the chicken with this side dish and sauce. It turns out incredibly tasty and simple !!!

Ingredients

• Shallots 4 pieces
• Chicken 1 piece
• White peppercorns 15 g
• Ginger 50 g
• Salt to taste
• Rice 1 glass
• Garlic 6 cloves
• Sweet chili sauce 3 tablespoons
• Red chilli to taste
• Cucumbers 5 pieces

Directions

1. Cut off the fat from the chicken, set it aside.
2. Bring a large pot of water to a boil.
3. Fill the chicken with whole heads of peeled shallots and slices of peeled ginger. The chicken can be sewn up or held together with toothpicks to prevent the contents from spilling out during cooking.
4. Put the chicken in boiling water, throw in a few peas of white pepper, salt, reduce the heat. The chicken should not boil while boiling, so medium heat is fine.
5. After about 40-50 minutes, the chicken is ready: take it out of the broth and send it to a bath of ice water for 10 minutes. Then take out and cut into strips.
6. Preheat a frying pan, melt chicken fat on it, fry finely chopped garlic.
7. Pour in the rice, fry it until golden brown.
8. Fill the rice with chicken broth, cover and cook over low heat until tender.
9. For the sauce, mix two finely chopped garlic cloves, sweet chili sauce, some chili pepper, two tablespoons of chicken stock.
10. Peel the cucumbers, cut them along the strips, put them on a dish with chicken.