Claypot ginger/garlic chicken rice

Claypot chicken rice

Ingredients :
( For 2 persons )
1 cup fragrant rice
2 chicken whole leg ( preferably de boned easier to cook through )
2 inches of old ginger ( sliced )
6  or 7 pips of garlic chopped finely
Pandan leaves
sesame oil
chicken stock

Season chicken with salt, poke the chicken with a fork.
Heat wok,  pour in 2 tblspoon of sesame oil
Saute garlic and ginger. Put  the chicken over the garlic and ginger.
Leave it to heat up on low flame ( cover the wok )
Turn over the chicken , keep the wok covered.
Dish out the chicken.
Pot in the rice and saute it with the now fragrant garlic/ginger mix.
Add salt to taste.Put in the pandan leaves. A teaspoon of light soy sauce can be added to add colour to the cooked rice .
Scoop the rice mixture into a claypot. Cook rice with chicken stock .
When the rice is almost dry put the semi cooked chicken on the rice, cover lid When the rice is dry switch     off the flame.  After 10 to 15 min serve the rice with cut ccucumber and a dash of sesame oil.

It is best taken with a home made sauce  ( chilli /garlic/young ginger/lime juice /soya sauces )

Chicken rice with homemade chilli sauce