Claypot Rice Amongst Salted Fish 咸鱼砂锅饭

I volition piece of occupation along this Claypot Rice alongside Salted Fish 咸鱼砂锅饭 short as well as sweetness (with lots of pictures) equally I had already written a Rice-cooker Version of Claypot Rice inwards August, 2015. This is a to a greater extent than traditional agency of cooking inwards a claypot over sack on a stove. Taste wise, they should non differ to keen extent.

However, I create bring higher expectations from this traditional version of Claypot Rice alongside Salted Fish 咸鱼砂锅饭 as it would allow me to gear upwards till there's a layer of burnt rice bits. This is precisely what I bring been trying to gain yesteryear using the traditional claypot. I'm hoping the flavours as well as fragrance to endure only similar how nosotros similar them from the hawkers. My methods of cooking may non endure precisely authentic as well as traditional equally I prefer to sauté my ingredients beforehand to allow to a greater extent than aromas as well as colours out of them. I believe my identify unit of measurement members are receptive equally they bring ever come upwards dorsum for to a greater extent than whenever I gear upwards this dish for them.

Ingredients (enough for four pax) :

a span of chinese sausage (腊肠) sliced to sparse pieces
8 pcs chicken mid wings
4 to five pcs of dried mushrooms (soaked as well as sliced to sparse pieces). Keep the mushroom H2O (about 2.5 cups)
a land of finger size salted fish (梅香咸鱼) chopped to minor bits
2.5 cups of rice (washed as well as drained)
500 to 600 ml H2O (subject to your claypot size)(include H2O from soaking mushrooms as well as dried shrimps)
3 slices of ginger
3 cloves garlic (finely chopped)
1 tbsp dried shrimps (pre-soaked)
1/2 tbsp Knorr's Hao Chi Seasonings (to taste)
a loving cup of romaine lettuce (washed as well as cleaned)
a petty coriander, jump onions as well as carmine cutting chilli for garnishing
cooking oil

Seasonings for Chicken Mid Wings :

a pinch of salt
1 tsp sesame oil
1 tbsp lite soy sauce

The Dark Sauce :

1 tbsp nighttime soy sauce
1 tsp lite soy sauce
1 tsp fish sauce
1 tsp sugar
4 tbsp hot water

(tsp = teaspoon; tbsp = tablespoon)

Method :

Soak rice grains for 1 hr before cooking. If y'all create non pre-soak, y'all may cease upwards alongside burnt rice at the bottom as well as uncooked rice on top.
Marinate chicken mid wings alongside seasonings.
In a non-sticking pan/wok, lightly stir minor fry Chinese sausage (腊肠) as well as set aside.
Drain dried shrimps as well as lightly sauté. Put aside.
Lightly sauté mushrooms as well as laid aside.
Lightly sauté salted fish bits. At this juncture, add together 1-2 tbsp cooking crude into the pan. The cooking crude inwards the pan would endure infused alongside fragrance from the salted fish.
Remove salted fish bits from pan/wok as well as laid aside. Leave the cooking crude inwards the pan/wok.
Fold inwards mid wings as well as pan sear for 1 infinitesimal on each side. Set aside.
Add a tbsp cooking crude into claypot as well as plough on low-medium heat.
Fold inwards aromatics such equally ginger slices, garlic, dried shrimps as well as a petty jump onions for a quick stir fry.
Only take chopped jump onions from the claypot. Fold inwards drained rice.
Add Knorr's Hao Chi seasoning pulverisation into pot as well as purpose a spoon to give the rice as well as seasonings a quick stir.
Fold inwards 450-500 ml H2O (i.e. the H2O used for soaking mushrooms as well as dried shrimps). Adjust H2O inwards accordance to your pot size. The dominion of pollex is that the H2O grade should endure close 1 cm inwards a higher identify rice grains.
Cover lid as well as allow to simmer for five minutes.
Remove lid later five minutes. Water grade should endure cooked downward substantially. At this juncture, crease inwards all the ingredients that were laid aside before (i.e. Chinese sausages, chicken mid wings, mushrooms, salted fish bits).
Fold inwards close some other 100 ml water.
Cover lid i time to a greater extent than as well as allow to simmer for xx to 25 minutes inwards depression heat. Do banknote that fourth dimension may shorten or lengthen plain of report to claypot size.
Between xx to 25 infinitesimal mark, y'all should commencement to olfactory belongings the burnt rice from the claypot.
Wait for 1 to two minutes as well as opened upwards lid to banking concern stand upwards for if the rice is fully cooked. If so, plough off heat. Otherwise, encompass lid as well as simmer for farther 1 to two minutes. If y'all had pre-soaked your rice grains, your rice should endure fully cooked yesteryear then.
Turn off heat. Leave the lid on for five to a greater extent than minutes.
Transfer claypot to dining table, adapt vegetables, garnishings as well as add together nighttime sauce (1 tbsp yesteryear 1 tbsp to gustation examination to your liking).
Drizzle alongside a tbsp of cooked crude (熟油), stir everything inwards the claypot together as well as serve whilst hot.

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Washing the Burnt Claypot
Just a petty tip inwards getting rid of the burnt rice at the bottom of the claypot later the meal. What I unremarkably create alongside the burnt pot is to create total it alongside water, boil it. Cover the lid as well as piece of occupation out it at that topographic point till the adjacent morning. By the adjacent day, y'all would realise most of the burnt pieces would endure dissolved similar porridge. If they're yet stubborn, create total H2O as well as boil 2nd time. No stress!