Name: Hainanese ‘chicken’ rice
Prep time: 50 min
Cook time: 50 min
Total time: 1 h 40 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Singaporean
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon salt; 1 tablespoon lemon juice; 1 small cucumber, sliced; ½ teaspoon sesame oil; 2 teaspoons agave syrup; 5 cm ginger, thinly sliced; 1½ tablespoons light soy sauce; 2.5 cm ginger, finely grated; 1 teaspoon white sugar; 1 pandan leaf, knotted (or ½ lemongrass stalk, bruised); 1 quantity seitan ‘chicken’; 1½ cups (300 g) long-grain rice, rinsed and drained; 2 tofu puffs; ½ teaspoon molasses; 5 cm ginger, finely chopped; 2 tablespoons light soy sauce; 1 teaspoon vegetable oil; pinch of white pepper; 1 teaspoon five spice powder; 4 spring onions (scallions), green parts only, finely chopped; 2 dried shiitake mushrooms; 1 teaspoon chicken-style seasoning or nutritional yeast; ½ teaspoon salt; 2 large red chillies, deseeded and chopped; 2 garlic cloves, chopped; 4 garlic cloves, finely chopped

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
1 hr 40

Appears in

Jackfruit and Blue Ginger

By Sasha Gill

Published 2019

About

There is something quite beautiful about the simplicity of this dish, widely considered the national dish of Singapore.

Ingredients

2 tofu puffs
1 quantity seitan ‘chicken’
1½ cups (300

Method

Cut along the sides of the tofu puffs and roll each one flat to form a long sheet of tofu skin. Place a flattened tofu puff on top of each seitan log and stretch it across to cover the top, using toothpicks to hold it in place and form a ‘skin’ on your seitan chicken. Combine all the marinade ingredients in a bowl and add the seitan ‘chicken’, mixing well. Cover and chill for 1 hour, flipping i

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