Steamed red rice, stuffed with spiced chicken
Ingredients :
250 g chicken meat
2 cloves garlic, 10 g
10 g ginger
a stalk leek, 25 cm
2 Tbs cooking oil, 20 ml, for frying
a pinch of salt
2 Tbs sweet soy sauce, 20 ml
1 tsp oyster sauce
3 shallots, 30 g
20 g ginger
2 blades lemon grass, each 20 cm, cut finely
150 g red rice
100 g white glutinous rice
400 ml thick coconut milk
1 tsp salt, 4 g (or to taste)
banana leaves, for wrapping
Method :
Chop chicken meat roughly. Make garlic and ginger into a paste. Cut leek finely. Fry garlic and ginger until aromatic. Add chicken meat and continue frying until chicken changes color. Add leek and season with salt, sweet soy sauce, and oyster sauce. Continue frying until done.
Make shallots, ginger and lemon grass into a paste. Add red rice, white glutinous rice, coconut milk, and season with salt. Bring to a boil and continue cooking until coconut milk is absorbed.
Take each time 1 piece of banana leaf, put 2 Tbs rice mixture of Step 2 and fill with 1 tsp chicken mixture of Step 1. Wrap and secure with rafia strings. Put into a steamer and steam until done. Take from flame and serve with sambal to your liking.
Note :
10 servings
Source : Selera Magazines, November 1993
