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Steamed Glutinous Rice with Chicken (Loh Mai Kai)
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: Chinese
Author: Shiokman Eddie
Ingredients
MARINATED CHICKEN:
  • 6 whole chicken breast or thighs
  • 1 tablespoon cooking oil
  • 1 tablespoon sesame oil
  • 3 tablespoon light soya sauce
  • 1 tablespoon oyster sauce
  • 1/2 teaspoon pepper
  • 1 tablespoon chinese rice wine
  • 2 tablespoon ginger juice
  • 3 teaspoon cornflour
  • 2 Tbsp chopped garlic
MARINATED RICE :
  • 1 kg glutinous rice
  • 3 tablespoon cooking oil
  • 3 tablespoon sesame oil
  • 2 tablespoon light soya sauce
  • 2 tablespoon oyster sauce
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon pepper
  • 3 teaspoon sugar
MARINATED SHIITAKE MUSHROOMS:
  • 20 - 30 dried shiitake mushrooms
  • 500 ml hot water
  • 2 tsp of light soya sauce
  • 1 teaspoon of sugar
  • 2 cloves garlic
GARNISHINGS:
  • Cilantro Chinese parsley
  • Spring onions
  • Fried shallots
  • Chilli sauce
Instructions
PREPARATION OF CHICKEN:
  1. Wash and cut boneless chicken breasts or thighs into bite size pieces.
  2. For chicken marinade, mix cooking oil, sesame oil, light soya sauce, oyster sauce, pepper, rice wine, ginger juice and corn flour.
  3. Pour marinade over the chicken pieces and mix thoroughly. Add chopped garlic and mix well. Set aside for at least 2 hours in the fridge.
PREPARATION OF GLUTINOUS RICE:
  1. Wash and soak glutinous rice for at 2 hours. Drain rice into a suitable colander for steaming. Steam for 30 minutes. Remove steamer cover and fluff up rice.
  2. Sprinkle a few spoons of water onto the rice to ensure thorough cooking. Steam again for another 30 minutes.
  3. For rice marinade, mix cooking oil, sesame oil, light soya sauce, oyster sauce, salt, pepper and sugar.
  4. Add rice marinade to cooked rice and mix thoroughly
PREPARATION OF MUSHROOMS:
  1. Wash and soak dried shiitake mushrooms in hot water for 1 hour. Remove stems from soaked mushrooms and cut into slices. Do not throw away mushroom water.
  2. Boil mushrooms (until soft) with light soya sauce, sugar and garlic in the mushroom water.
ASSEMBLY:
  1. Mix marinated chicken with mushrooms.
  2. Arrange a layer of marinated chicken and mushroom in 3 round pans.
  3. Spoon the steamed rice over the layer of chicken and mushroom. Spread out rice evenly and lightly press it flat. Steam each pan for 30 minutes at high heat.
  4. Scoop desired portion from tray and serve with garnishing and chilli sauce.
Recipe Notes
  • For more juicy meat, use chicken legs and cut them into thin slices to allow marinade to seep into meat. Preferably marinate chicken overnight.
  • You could also boil whole mushrooms with seasonings; and slice them into strips after boiling.