I went to a Chicken Rice making Workshop on Saturday. I never realised the amount of time, work and effort that goes into preparing a simple dish of chicken rice! First, make the soup using the ingredients available. Apologies for not being able to give out the recipe as we have been sworn not to circulate that in public.
Then we have to boil the chicken in the soup, before taking it out, putting the chicken in ice for ten minutes, and hang the chicken by the neck to drain it. The rice used must be old rice, the yellowish one, not the new white rice. Instead of using water to cook the rice, the remaining soup was added into the rice cooker with the rice. No wonder the rice tastes so good!
We were even taught how to make "achar" - sour and spicy cucumbers and carrots, as well as tips on how to mix the ingrdients to make the chilli stronger, weaker, etc. Also, who can forget the chicken rice chilli? The extra hot chilli that makes the rice much nicer? We were taught that too, although the chilli prepared was not that hot in the end.
Overall, it was a fun and enjoyable class. With so many pairs of hands, the dish was completed way before time. Imagine if just one person is making the dish, the preparation time involved takes a couple of hours at least. Now I really salute those hawkers!
Then we have to boil the chicken in the soup, before taking it out, putting the chicken in ice for ten minutes, and hang the chicken by the neck to drain it. The rice used must be old rice, the yellowish one, not the new white rice. Instead of using water to cook the rice, the remaining soup was added into the rice cooker with the rice. No wonder the rice tastes so good!
We were even taught how to make "achar" - sour and spicy cucumbers and carrots, as well as tips on how to mix the ingrdients to make the chilli stronger, weaker, etc. Also, who can forget the chicken rice chilli? The extra hot chilli that makes the rice much nicer? We were taught that too, although the chilli prepared was not that hot in the end.
Overall, it was a fun and enjoyable class. With so many pairs of hands, the dish was completed way before time. Imagine if just one person is making the dish, the preparation time involved takes a couple of hours at least. Now I really salute those hawkers!
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