Steamed Glutinous Rice With Chicken Loh Mai Kai 糯米鸡 Recipes

STEAMED GLUTINOUS RICE WITH CHICKEN (LOH MAI KAI) 糯米鸡

Steps:

• Have ready all ingredients needed to make steamed glutinous rice with chicken.
• Soaked mushrooms in water till soft, about 2 hours.
• Then set aside rehydrated mushrooms and retain mushroom water.
• Also, soaked scallops for about 1 hour.
• Set aside rehydrated dried scallop and retain scallop water.
• Soak chinese sausage in water for about 10 minutes. Then remove the skin casing on the sausage.
• Then slice the sausage diagonally into semi-thin pieces.
• Next, peel and mince some garlic
• Lastly, slice thinly some peeled shallots.
• To prepare the glutinous rice, wash the rice and drained.
• Add enough water and set aside to soak for at least 6 hours or overnight.
• Prepare seasonings to season the soaked glutinous rice.
• Drained soaked glutinous rice and place into a deep bowl. Add in the seasonings and mix well. Set aside to stir fry the glutinous rice.
• To prepare the chicken, first cut deboned chicken thigh into bite size pieces.
• Skin ginger and pound to extract ginger juice.
• Have ready all seasonings to marinade the cut chicken meat.
• Add all the seasonings into chicken meat and marinade for at least 3 hours. Meanwhile we are ready to fry the prepared ingredients.
• First, heat up oil in wok and saute slice shallot.
• Fry the shallot till golden, remove and retain the oil to use to stir fry other ingredients.
• Using a little of the shallot oil, stir fry minced garlic, mushroom and chinese sausage.
• When aromatic, add in mushroom water and continue to saute till dry.
• Set aside the fried mushrooms and chinese sausage toppings for later use.
• In the same wok, heat a little of the shallot oil and put in the seasoned glutinous rice. Stir fry till fragrant.
• Set aside the fried glutinous rice and we are ready to assemble the steamed glutinous rice with chicken into a bowl.
• Have ready all ingredients needed to assemble the steamed glutinous rice with chicken.
• First put 1-2 pieces marinated chicken, 1 piece fried mushroom (black face down), 1-2 pieces fried chinese sausage and 1 scallop into a stainless steel bowl. Then top up with sauteed glutinous rice.
• Next, press down gently the glutinous rice with the back of a spoon.
• Lastly spoon 4 tablespoons of mushroom/scallop water onto the glutinous rice and we have assembled 1 bowl of glutinous rice with chicken.
• Contine to assemble the same for the other 3 stainless steel bowls. And we are ready to steam the glutinous rice with chicken.
• Place the filled stainless steel bowls into a steamer with boiling water.
• Cover with lid and steam over medium heat for 40 minutes or until done.
• Remove from steamer when cooked.
• To release the glutinous rice, first run a knife around the stainless steel bowl and place a small plate above it.
• Then turn over the steamed glutinous rice onto the small plate and serve immediately.