INDONESIAN STEAM RICE WITH CHICKEN & MUSHROOM

Easy to cook.What we need to prepare are ingredients for the chicken mushroom, garlic oil, and pickled cucumber (optional).


#1. CHICKEN MUSHROOM
Ingredients:
1 pack of chicken leg/ thigh - cut into small pieces ; set aside the bones^
1 pack of shitake mushroom - thinly sliced or you can use 1 can of button mushroom; cut in half.
5 cloves garlic - finely chopped
1 inch ginger - finely chopped
1/2 tbs pepper
1/2 tbs salt
2 tbs sugar
5 tbs ABC sweet soy sauce
3 tbs soy sauce
3 tbs sesame oil

* Heat oil in the pan, saute garlic and ginger until slightly brown.Then add chicken, pepper, salt, sugar, sweet soy sauce, soy sauce, and sesame oil.Cook for 15 minutes, add button mushroom and cook for another 10 minutes. It'd be better if it tastes a little bit salty, because we have to cook it together with rice.

#2. GARLIC OIL
Ingredients:
1 bulb of garlic - chopped into small pieces
7 tbs oil

*Heat oil and add garlic, stir frequently until slightly brown. Remove form heat.

#3. PICKLED CUCUMBER (OPTIONAL)
Ingredients:
3 medium size cucumbers - peel the skin, seed them, and thinly sliced.
Sugar to taste
Salt to taste
3 tbs vinegar

* Mix well all of the ingredients and refrigerate it.

Now, you can either steam or cook the rice in the rice cooker. I always choose the second one: cook in the rice cooker. :)
* Put 3 cups of rice in the rice cooker and wash it.
* Add 6 or 7 tbs fully cooked chicken mushroom, mix well with uncooked rice, add water and cook it.
* When it cooks, sprinkle the top with thinly sliced scallion and garlic oil. Serve with pickled cucumber

Enjoy!



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