Dark Soy Sauce Chicken Rice

I just love this simple recipe to cook "all in 1 pot" dark soy sauce chicken with chinese sausages. There are days when we are really running after time and this easy to cook meal is the best for all in the family. This pot of rice will not be complete without the fried shallots and its nice aromatic oil. So remember to add the homemade fried shallots and its oil before serving.

This is the simpliest "all in 1 pot" chicken and chinese sausage rice as you do not need to stir fry the rice before cooking. The marinated chicken and chinese sausages are laid on top of the almost cook rice in the rice cooker and allow it to cook by itself. When the rice cooker button auto-switch to Ready, this chicken rice is ready to be served. Simple as that! Done within 40 minutes or less.

All you Need :

• 1/2 chicken - chop into pieces
• 3 chinese sausages - soak n peel off skin
• 6 shallots/small onions - slice thinly
• a spring of spring onion/scallion
• 2 cups of rice

Simple Process : Serve 4 - 5

1. Marinate the chopped chicken with 2 Tbs black soy sauce, chinese cooking wine, salt, pepper for 20 minutes
2. Soak and peel the chinese sausages and cut into fine slices
3. Wash the rice and cook with hot water in the rice cooker
4. Around 10 minutes, the rice will be almost dry, lay the marinated chicken and chinese sausages on top of the rice, add in 1 Tbs thick dark soy sauce and let the rice cooker continue to cook the rice and the chicken for the balance 10 minutes.
5. Keep the rice in the rice cooker for another 5 minutes, then ready to stir rice to mix well to ensure even color (all covered by black soy sauce).
6. Serve with fried shallots and its oil, garnish with chopped spring onion

Fried Shallots - heat some oil over medium heat and fry sliced shallots till golden brown, dish out together with the oil for serving.

** Using hot water, we speed up the cooking time of the rice and you'll have nice grains of rice when cooked.

Enjoy this Simple and Easy to cook recipe....

Chinese Mustard Green Rice

This is another Chinese-style "all in 1 wok" meal, it takes less than an hour to cook. Fast and easy recipe for rice cook all at once with meat, dried oyster, dried shrimps (hae bee), chinese black mushroom and most important the chinese mustard green (kai-choy). I have slightly modified my mum's way of cooking this pot of rice. As I love my vegetables to be green, I have decided not to boil the vegetable with the rice. Instead, the chinese mustard green is blanched in boiling water with salt and added in the rice once the rice is cooked.

Chinese mustard green comes with a slightly bitter taste and inorder to reduce the bitterness, it has to be blanched with salt. It is a technique to reduce the bitterness. This vegetable has lots of fibre and it is a good intake for our body.

All you need to have : Serve 4-5

• 2 cups of rice


• some chinese mustard green - cut into small pieces


• some dried oyster


• some dried shrimps


• some chicken meat - cut into cubes


• 1 big onion - chopped


• 1 thumbsize ginger - chopped


• fried shallots - for garnishing

All you need to do :

1. Blanched the cut chinese mustard green in boiling water with some salt, dish out once vege are slightly soften


2. Heat a little oil and stir fry chopped onion and ginger, add in dried oysters, dried shrimps, stir fry a minute then add in the chicken meat, salt to taste


3. When the chicken meat turns white on the outer layer, add in the chinese mushroom and rice, stir fry till the mixture turns dry, dish out and put mixture into rice cooker


4. Add appropriate level of water in the rice cooker and let the rice cook by itself


5. When rice is cooked, add in the blanched chinese mustard green and mix well into the cooked rice


6. Ready to serve, just garnish the rice with fried shallots....

Wow! .....Simply Delicious!

Nutritious Pumpkin Rice

Look at this beautiful colourful rice...looks appealing? Yes, it is Pumpkin Rice, taste yummy and simple recipe too. Pumpkin has a rich source of beta-carotene which acts as antioxidant in the body. Guess we need to eat healthy to stay healthy, once a while a little indulgence, that's alright....aiks!

Try this simple recipe if you happen to get hold of a nice little pumpkin from the market..

What you require : Serve 4

• 1.5 cup rice
• 1/2 pumpkin - cut into cubes
• some chinese mushrooms (black mushroom)
• some lean chicken meat - cut into cubes
• some dried shrimps (optional)
• 1 onion - chopped
• 3 pips garlic - chopped
• spring onion - chopped for garnishing
• salt - to taste
  

Simple Process :

1. Heat a little oil and saute chopped garlic, onion and dried shrimps till fragrant


2. Add in the chicken meat and fry till outer layer turns white, add in the pumpkins, chinese mushroom and stir fry for 2 minutes


3. Add in the rice, some salt to taste and stir fry till it turns dry just like the picture below

4. Dish it out and put into the rice cooker, add sufficient water to cook the rice

* Tip : Add hot water to the rice cooker as this speed up the cooking process and you will have a nice cooked grains of rice...

Great! A nice beautiful nutritious Pumpkin Rice!

Long Beans Yummy Rice

A simple and easy to cook "all in 1 pot" tasty rice ready to be served on a busy day or perfect for a lazy mum.... yah...it is the LongBeans Yummy Rice. I love the crunchy bites of the long beans plus the aromatic fried dried prawns and dried scallops, you will like too? Just add slices of chinese sausages (red) to enhance the color if you love chinese sausages (non-halal) - optional.

It is fast to cook and it takes less than 40 minutes to get this beautiful tasty pot of rice for the family...the kids would love it as it is "no-fuss" to eat, care to try?



Simple ingredients: Serve 4

• a cup of rice
  
• 8 long beans - cut into small pieces
  
• some dried prawns
  
• some dried scallops
  
• a piece of chicken breast meat - cut into cubes
  
• 5 shallots - chop
  
• 2 chinese sausage - cut into thin slices (optional)
  
• 2 Tbs light soya sauce
  
• salt - to taste

Simple Process :

1. Heat a little oil and stir fry the long beans till slightly soft. Set a side.
   
2. Heat a little oil, fry the chopped shallots till aromatic, drop in the dried prawns and dried scallops, stir fry till aromatic, add the chicken meat and stir for 2 minutes..
   
3. Add in the rice, drop in the light soya sauce and salt, stir fry till rice looks dry.
   
4. Put all the mixture into the rice cooker, add required amount of hot boiling water and leave it to cook.
   
5. When rice is cooked, add in the cooked long beans and mix well, ready to serve
   
6. Garnish with fried shallots.

Simple and efficient - great taste too!

Hot Pot Chicken-Cuttlefish Rice

This is another "one wok chicken rice" that comes with a yummy flavour. My kids called it dark chicken rice and they love the great taste. The rice comes with a nice aroma of fried jue-hu si (cuttlefish strips). Perfect for a lazy mum like me as I enjoy going for simple approach cooking with good taste and importantly attracting good appetite.....Viola! It's delicious and no fuss.

My definition of simple n easy approach is getting the dish without having to go through too many tedious steps but instead focusing on critical step found in the dish.

Time to prepare : less than 40 minutes

What do you require? - serve 4

• 1/2 chicken - chopped into pieces


• cup of rice - wash clean


• some cuttlefish strips (jue-hu si)


• 5 shallots (small red onions) - cut into slices


• 1 Tbs fish sauce (optional) - obtain from the hypermart or grocery shop


• 1 Tbs dark soya sauce


• chopped spring onion and fried shallots - for garnishing

What to do next?

1. Heat a little oil in the wok, fry the shallots till aromatic, add in the cuttlefish strips and stir fry till fragrant.


2. Add in the chicken and stir fry for few seconds, add in the washed rice, fish sauce (if no fish sauce, add pinch of salt instead), dark soya sauce and stir around till the rice gets dry.


3. Once step 2 is done, drop all into the rice cooker, add appropriate amount of hot water and let the rice cooker cook for you. Remember to garnish with chopped spring onions and fried shallots..

Enjoy your Meal - hot pot chicken rice!

One Wok Chicken Rice

Lazy Mum is going for a good hot and tasty meal today and it is going to be "1 wok cooked" affair ... Time taken to prepare - less than 40 minutes

With a buzy schedule everyday, we still need to ensure the people we love gets the best on the dining table ... This 1 Wok Chicken Rice is very simple and it is easy to cook as you just have to put everything into the Rice Cooker and get it to cook for you - no fuss at all!

The rice goes very well with the Lime Chilly aka "Mother-In-Law Sauce" to some Penangnites... It is very simple to make but if you find it too tedious, try this : Next time when you "tar pau" chicken rice from the stall, ask for more chilly packets and store it in the fridge for future use..hahahha, good idea! No, no, I dont do that, infact this Lime Chilly Sauce is my speciality...I am good at it.

Chicken Rice from the stall is rather unhealthy as some uses the fats from the chicken to cook the rice and it gives the rice an "oily" feel.

What you require?

1/2 chicken or 2 chicken thighs - chopped it into pieces

1 thumbsize ginger - chopped

1 clove of garlic - chopped

Sprig of spring onion - for garnishing

1 cup rice - serve 4

2 Tablespoon Light soya sauce

salt - to taste

What to do next?

1. Heat the pan with a little oil and fry the chopped ginger and garlic till aromatic and add in the chicken and stir for 5 minutes

2. Add in the washed rice and stir well over low heat. Add in 2 tablespoon light soya sauce and salt - to taste and fry till the rice looks dry in the pan

3. Lastly, drop all into the rice cooker and add the appropriate level of water to cook the rice.

4. Ready to Serve once the rice is cooked. Garnish the rice with chopped spring onions to add colors and complement the rice with "Mother-In-Law Sauce"....

Yummy, taste good and healthy too...less fats!

** How much water for the rice? You can first measure the water and the rice in the rice cooker with your finger, then drain out the water into a bowl, keep and use it later.