Lap Mei Rice is always a welcome dish during Chinese New Year (CNY). Ive find that it is really nice having this dish not only during CNY but whenever there's friends or family visit.
It is really a show stopper because the rice brings so much flavour that adults and kids just love it.
I would buy all these wax meat during CNY and keep it in the fridge for later use. You can use thai fragrant rice or glutinous rice to make this dish.
My Mom loves this dish and she recently requested this during one of her visit. It makes me very happy to see Mom enjoyed the food that I cook.
This is really simple to make ;)
Stage 1
- Dried Mushroom - 8 pieces
Wash and soak the dried mushrooms with cold water. Squeeze the water out from the mushrooms and soak it over night. Some people would save some water to add it to the rice. I find it very dirty so I discard all the water after soaking.
Next day before cooking, boil some water and soak the mushrooms.
Squeeze the mushroom dry, slice it and leave aside for later use.
Stage 2
- Chicken Meat - Slice
- Sesame Oil
- Oyster sauce
- Sugar
Chicken fillet, you can use chicken breast or thigh. I prefer the thigh area because the meat are not too dry. Slice it and marinate with Oyster sauce, a little sugar, sesame oil and a little corn flour. Marinate overnight or at least 3 hours before cooking.
Stage 3
- Oil - 3 tablespoon
- Wax Chinese Sausage - 2
- Liver Sausage - 2
- Wax Duck - Half, Slice it
- Wax Pork Meat - Half, Slice it
Use a wok, add oil and heat up the dried sausages and wax meat. Do not overcooked it. Just heat up the wax meat until oil fragrant. Remove the sausage skin and slice it and set aside.
The oil from the wok, split it into 2 portions.
Stage 3
- Minced Garlic
- Fresh White Mushrooms - Slice (Optional)
- Dried mushrooms soaked earlier
- marinated chicken meat
- Light Soya Sauce 1 tablespoon
- Dark Sauce 2 tablespoon
- White Pepper
Use the same wok with 1 portion of the oil saved. Add garlic and stir till fragrant. Pour into the wok the soaked mushrooms (stage 1), white mushrooms, stir for about 5 minutes and add chicken meat marinated earlier. Add 2 tablespoon of dark sauce, white pepper and 1 tablespoon of light soya sauce.
Cook the for about 10 minutes (3/4 cooked) and set aside.
Stage 4
- rice
- oil from frying the wax meat earlier
Wash rice and use rice cooker to cook rice. Add oil to the rice and cook for about 10 minutes. You will noticed rice half cooked. Add the ingredient from stage 3 into the rice and stir the rice so that all mixed well.
Put the wax meat on top of the rice and close the rice cooker lead and continue to cook. Add light soya sauce it flavour are not enough.
- Chinese Parsley
- Spring Onion
- Fried Onion
Add fresh herbs and fried onion on rice before consuming. It adds flavour and very refreshing.
No comments:
Post a Comment