Great work as usual, I am pro MSG! So many cooking channels are so over-produced these days, love the straightforward but easy and cozy vibes you have.
Hey mate, couple weeks back my wife made your HCR recipe, and we were both blown away at how good it was, especially the rice... SO GOOD. The next week I made your BKT recipe and it was exactly what my wife has been searching for, when thinking about this soup her gramma made, but didn't know what it was called. So thank you for posting these videos and recipes!
Amazing video and recipe. Looking forward to trying it your reference to uncle Roger was fantastic as well and it made me wonder where his peanut allergy guy? I assume working the camera?
Whole point of Hainan Chicken is the tenderness and the texture...this clearly isn't Hainan Chicken but at least you've made the point that a rice cooker can be used for things aside from rice and congee.
When you see the steam come raging out of the rice cooker you could remove the chicken (perhaps pick deboned) and it might be done ? (Just guessing - always seems to be 10 mins before the rice cooker says rice is ready).
I wouldn’t want to encourage people putting their hand into a raging steam cooker. Absolutely you could try that if you’re comfortable not burning yourself.
That looks delicious Aunty Liz, quick question, if I use my pressure cooker on the rice setting, will I get more or less the same result as the rice cooker?
Hello Auntie Liz. I had made your recipe. And I put the pandan leaves. Some people said they used kaffir limes leaves. What’s the difference? And does it change the flavors? Thank you
Hey! Nice one on trying the recipe! You could use kaffir lime leaves but that does change the flavour profile, its not in my experience something id use for Hainan chicken… as kaffir lime leave’s definitely are very fragrant in a lime flavour. Pandan was the my preferred choice 👍🏼
If i want to get authentic Hainanese chicken rice i would literally just go out of my bed and go to a 24 hours store which my Papa's friend owns no there is no friend price
Just always clarify that MSG is just purified mushroom powder or soy sauce or marmite or whatever else. Just mention casually that your viewer can use any of these because they are basically all MSG in their non-purified form. Maybe sometimes use one of those just to show that it's the same damned thing so people will realize and stop being so freaked out about it. Every brit has eaten marmite all their life. MSG? omg scary. ugh.
It was more about doing the chicken and rice. Adding cucumber wasnt going to change or add my opinion to the dish as i know what cucumbers taste like 😅
Something I found out as an amateur home cook is that you must season everything. It doesn't mean it tastes salty, but it means you get every component to shine. Seeing a pro chef do it makes me feel better about this choice.
I cheat when it comes to the ginger and garlic paste. I use the Japanese squeeze bottle pureed ginger and pureed garlic. Mix them together. Great time saver from Don Don Donki. 😅
Great video Auntie Liz. I'm definitely going to try this. Keep up the great work! Looking forward to your next video. Thank you! Greetings from California!
Absolutely bang on. This is superior to my Great Grandmother's favorite recipe. The only difference is instead of going to a shop for your chicken just STEAL a chicken!
Thanks Liz, this really brings me back to cooking in my room at Uni... my mum literally got me a rice cooker, and my dad taught me how to marinade different meats and I just threw everything in the cooker, whether it was shiitake mushroom with chicken in oyster sauce or pork and aubergine all went so well with rice and cooked within 30 minutes in the rice cooker... it still blows my mind how quick and easy it was and so many students eat crap because no one taught them how to do this, so thanks for sharing and I hope more students see your videos or someone can show them how... :)
Great idea! My parents taught me how to cook, but they never adjusted their techniques beyond what they already knew. It's a shame cuz they were doing the 9-5 with 4 kids and never thought once to make food like this. The power of information... I must teach my boys these kinds of shortcuts where you cut down 50% or more of the work for 80-90% of the quality.
Before she finished i knew the chicken would be overcooked. She should have left the bone in and put the chicken in 10 mins after starting the rice cooker
It's actually really good in a ride cooker, when ever we're lazy and don't feel like roasting rice ❤ great video through and through, I'm haiwanese too btw
That is such a good idea considering when you're time poor with young children. I'm thinking maybe using bone on Maryland instead of thigh fillets, what are your thoughts on that particular cut Aunty? Also, I don't have a traditional rice cooker but one of those Breville all-in-one pressure and slow cooker, will that be an issue in terms of cooking the protein?
I will never get the real stuff in backwoods VA- so I’m going to give it a try- it looks great- Love your home cook/restaurant savy style- Uncle Rog got nothing on you
Ms. Elizabeth / Auntie Liz . . . I love Hinanese Chicken Rice; my colleague from Malaysia turned me on to it 😋, and I'm definitely going to give this method a shot . . . "Thanks" for sharing. Keep on "learning us" 😜with your cooking techniques and I'll be looking out for your next vid.
Great video! I think even I could make it My father taught me "Chinese chicken and rice. You salt the chicken for a few days then cook on top of a pot of rice. Very salty! But so good.
This looks so amazing. Is there any way you can add an actual recipe to follow to this video? Ever since going to Singapore in 2016 I think of HCR every day. I live in Berlin, GER and all the places here have been underwhelming... I am considering movind to SGP for HCR alone, this is how desperate I am.
I only knew auntie Liz through uncle roger and its kind of weird seeig her like this... in a serious and straight light.. i'm so used to seeing her being cheeky and funny with Uncle Roger
I do this mostly with just Knorr chicken seasoning powder. And you're missing the chilli sauce. Just roughly blend up some chillis, put in that garlic ginger paste, some soup stock, salt, sugar, and some lemon if you like. Usually the soy sauce mix is just sesame oil and some soup stock to dilute it a little, no sugar. The slight tangy sweetness usually comes from the chilli sauce. I'm not in Singapore or Malyasia where you can just find a chicken rice shop to buy this, so I've also learned to make do with cooking this in a rice pot as well. And I also use frozen boneless chicken thighs because they are cheap. Wouldn't call this Hainanese chicken rice at all really, since the chicken meat is not dunked in cold water after boiling, which is the most crucial step in the dish. But yeah, beggars can't be choosers and this is a decently simple way to get really nice chicken rice, minus all the hard work.
It’s chicken rice but NOT hainanese chicken rice. You need to stick closely to how this dish is cooked per the hainanese method. Come learn it in Singapore.
Maybe as Roger say's I must be weak! I am allergic to MSG as I collapsed in my teens after having a meal in a friends restaurant, as soon as I opened the door to leave I collapsed due to the reaction to all of the booze mixed with the MSG, also the inside of my lips become raw and tender after MSG, I never had that problem when my dad used Ve-Tsin, but he only ever used it when making dumplings and he took the time to measure out in front of me on the edge of a matchstick how much to use, I make my own version of MSG and it deffo does not come in a crystalline form from a test tube! the next time I make some I will send you some, love the way that you keep the traditional recipe's alive, your mum taught you well, I just bought another rice cooker as the coating has started to chip away and I do not use metal in the rice cooker, had a couple of Panasonic ones that my dad had but they were aluminium so I got rid I can't cope with the automatic ones due to being an old fart, love the videos❣
Hi Liz, does this work with a basic rice cooker ie the one which just cooks rice and has no other functions? I’m worried that the chicken wouldn’t cook through with a basic rice cooker. Thanks.
