Its amazing how he leaves the whole chicken in boiling water and it cooks completely through.
I am learning here how to loosen up the chicken before cooking, it softens the meat. And interesting how he treats the rice before cooking it. It is the same way I have learnt rice has to be cooked.
There is a thermomix recipe for chicken rice. It puts the a stock on the bottom, the rice over the stock to cook, the chicken over both so the juices drop into the rice, and a vegetable can be cooked on a top layer if we could fit it all in. What an idea! I don't have a thermomix and I don't intend to get one. But I wonder if this method would work in a pressure cooker. I am thinking this because we have a deep pressure cooker which could hold different layers. After all the preparation, it might take minutes to cook. Just let it come to pressure and switch off. The one thing missing from this thermomix method is the ginger / garlic / onion oil essential to this dish. Perhaps we could use it in the preparation of the rice and let it mix with the chicken and stock through the steam.
Anyway, the kids love chicken rice. The most important part (not here) is the chilli sauce that goes with it. I'll have to add a how to do that video part later.
