Hainanese chicken rice (海南雞飯) with yin yang chicken

The adults love pak cham kai with the chicken rice but the children prefer roasted chicken so the solution is to combine both and call it yin yang chicken

Ingredients

1 chicken cut into 2 halves

Cooking the yin chicken (pak cham kai)

For the marinade:

1 tbsp Shaoxing rice wine

1 tsp light soy sauce

Pepper

Salt to taste

Mix the marinade and rub all over the chicken

Leave it for about an hour

Put some ginger slices and garlic on a heat proof plate.
Place the chicken on the ginger and garlic slices

Place the plate in the steamer

Cover and steam the chicken until cooked.
Every now and then spoon the chicken juices over the chicken so that it will be moist and tasty.

Once the chicken is cooked, remove the chicken from the plate and rub some sesame oil all over it

Allow to cool and keep aside

Keep the liquid from the chicken to cook chicken rice





Cooking the yang chicken (honey roast chicken)

Half a chicken

Mix together:
2 tbsp honey

1tbsp olive oil

¼ tsp cinnamon

Some salt and pepper in a small bowl.

Line a baking tray with tin foil.
Place some lemon slices on it.

Place the chicken on top of the lemon slices.

Brush the chicken with about half of the honey glaze. 

Cover the chicken with the tin foil.

Transfer the chicken to the pre-heated oven (180 C).

After about 30 minutes open the top of the foil and baste the chicken with its juices

Then brush the glaze on the chicken once more.

Cover and roast for another 30 minutes.
Open the tin foil and continue to roast the chicken until the skin is golden brown.

Remove from the oven and let it rest for 15 minutes before cutting it.

Cut both types of chicken into bite size pieces and plate it.

Cooking the chicken rice

This is the bottled version of chicken rice paste.

So far this is the best of all the pastes that I have tried.

Wash the rice and add the chicken rice paste and the juice from the steamed chicken.

Put in 1 bulb of garlic, 1 chicken stock cube and a knob of butter.

Add the required amount of water to cook the rice.

When the liquid is boiling, stir the rice to mix in the ingredients.

When the rice is cooked, stir it again so that it will be fluffy.

Serve with the chicken.