Preparation Time: 30mins
For the rice
· 1 bowl Brown Rice·
· 300 ml water
· 2 -3 cm ginger, grated
· 1 teaspoon sesame oil
· 1 teaspoon sea salt (to taste) or 1 tablespoon soya sause (to taste)
· 1 screwpine leaves (optional..it will make the rice more fragrant)
Vegetarian Hainanese chicken
· Vegetarian drumstick (ingredient: made from soya bean)
· Water, enough for steaming the drumstick
Chilli sauce for dipping
· 10 fresh red chilies
· 5 fresh chilies padi
· 2 cm piece ginger
· 1/4 teaspoon salt
· 1 teaspoon lime juice
· 1 teaspoon brown sugar
· 2 tablespoons vegetable broth or water
Ginger sauce for dipping
· 75 g ginger
· 1/2 teaspoon salt
· 1 teaspoon lime juice
· 2 tablespoons vegetable broth (or water)
Sesame Sauce for Vegetarian Chicken
· 1 tablespoon sesame oil
· 5 tablespoons light soya sauce
· 1 1/2 tablespoons Molasses (to taste) or Dark soya Sauce
· 3 tablespoons vegetable broth
Garnishing
· fresh coriander leaves
· sliced tomato
· sliced cucumber
Method
1. For the Rice: You can either slightly fried the uncook rice with ginger (grated) before transfer into the rice cooker, or just combine all the ingredients into an electric rice cooker, mix well and turn it on.
2. Vegetarian Hainanese chicken: You can either steam or fry the vegetarian drumstick.
3. Chilli Ginger sauce for dipping: Blend everything together except lime. Pour into serving dish and squeeze lime juice. Combine well.
4. Ginger sauce for dipping: Repeat the same step as for Step (3).
5. Sesame Sauce for Vegetarian Chicken: The sesame sauce is used for drizzling over the chicken and chicken rice just before serving to prevent dryness. Also adds more flavour as a finishing touch to the dish.
6. When done leave the cooked rice to rest, covered, for 5-10 minutes. Serve hot with steamed / deep-fried vegetarian drumsticks, drizzling over with Sesame Sauce, garnishing with cucumber slices, tomato slices, fresh coriander leaves and chilli as well as ginger sauce.
