Rice Cooker Chicken Rice

Flavoured rice is my girl's favourite. She finished 2 portions of this when I first cooked this rice for her. It's a very simple and quick rice dish which I modified from claypot chicken rice. The taste is very close except that I didn't use any Chinese sausage and salted fish. For adult's version, can totally add those and voila, rice cooker claypot chicken rice in 20 mins ;)

This is a very healthy and hearty rice dish for kids because no oil was added. Only a tiny bit of sesame oil for the chicken, you can omit that if want to go for zero oil. Great for busy mommies because all this is cooked in the rice pot within 20 mins or lesser (for my rice cooker).

Here is the super easy ingredients.

Ingredients:

1 chicken whole leg, deboned and cut into small chunks

1/2 cup rice (I use small shot glass and it's about 4 glasses) 

Few slices of ginger

2 white mushroom, sliced

Scallion, chopped

Chicken Marinade:

1 tbsp oyster sauce

1 tbsp light soy sauce

1/2 tsp sesame oil

1 tsp dark soy sauce

1 tsp ginger juice

Dash of white pepper

Method:

1. Marinade chicken and keep aside.

2. Cook rice with few slices of ginger with rice cooker until most of the water is absorbed. Mine took about 15 mins or lesser. 

3. Add in marinated chicken and white mushroom to the rice. Cover and let it finish cooking.

4. Once it is cooked, fluff the rice with a fork and check for seasonings. Add light soy sauce or dark soy sauce if required. Press On and let it cooked another few seconds. 

5. Serve rice with a sprinkle of chopped scallion.

Note:

1. The chicken whole leg that I used was quite small. If the chicken whole leg that you bought is bigger, just use half of it.

2. Try not to use chicken breast because I tried, it was very dry. Chicken whole leg or chicken thigh will give a better texture.

3. Add slightly lesser water than it should be because there is extra liquid in the chicken marinade which will be added later.

4. If you want to cook smaller portion, cut down on the chicken marinade and under season it a little. Can always add on the seasonings when the rice is cooked.