Recipe: Perfect Claypot Rice in Rice Cooker

Recipe: Perfect Claypot Rice in Rice Cooker Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Claypot Rice in Rice Cooker. You can buy the best Zojirushi rice cooker from right here. Cooking claypot chicken rice in a rice cooker may not be authentic or give that burnt fragrant from the charred rice but it is more practical for most of us who have busy lives. This one pot dish can serve many people depending on the capacity of your rice cooker.

Heat some oil in a wok/frying pan and fry garlic, ginger, shiitake mushroom, chicken (with all the marinating sauce), salt, sugar, and pepper.

Great recipe for Claypot Rice in Rice Cooker.

As its name implies, this rice is cooked in a clay pot and served hot straight from the stove.

You can have Claypot Rice in Rice Cooker using 15 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Claypot Rice in Rice Cooker

1. Prepare 300 gr of rice, rinse a couple times until the water gets clear, drained.

2. It’s 400 ml of water.

3. You need 3 of bacon slices, cut to taste.

4. It’s 3 of lap cheong (chinese sausage), sliced.

5. It’s 2 tbs of sesame oil.

6. You need 4 of garlic cloves, minced.

7. Prepare 2 of shallots, finely chopped.

8. It’s 2 cm of ginger, grated.

9. Prepare 10 gr of dried shrimp (do not need to be soaked), if the size is large, chop them.

10. It’s 1 tbs of oyster sauce.

11. It’s 1 tbs of dark soy sauce.

12. It’s 1 tsp of salt.

13. You need 1 tsp of sugar.

14. Prepare to taste of ground black/white pepper.

15. It’s of Frozen vegetables as needed (optional).

The rice at the bottom of the pot will form a burnt crust, which makes it so unique.

I don't have a clay pot, so to replicate this at home, I used my rice.

Claypot rice is created by the Cantonese people from Southern China and now has become a popular rice dish across Southeast Asia, especially Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Singapore.

The rice is usually presoaked and then finished cooking in a claypot over a charcoal stove, topped with other ingredients and sauces.

Claypot Rice in Rice Cooker step by step

1. Add sesame oil in the rice cooker pot. Close the lid. Press the "cook" button. Wait until the oil gets hot..

2. When the oil is hot, add garlic, shallots and ginger. Saute until fragrant and wilted..

3. Press the "off" button. Add rice, water and all remaining ingredients plus seasonings, except frozen vegetables. Stir it..

4. Close the rice cooker, press the "cook" button and wait until it turns to "warm". Add frozen vegetables. Mix it up. Close the lid. Leave it in the "warm" button for 5-10 minutes then serve..

Claypot chicken rice is one of Malaysian's favourite dish and can be easily made at home.

There are many variation of it.

My favourite version is in my 'One Pot Wonders' cookbook which includes flavourful ingredients like salted fish, sesame oil, pepper and belacan chili.

Instead of a rice cooker, I made it in Philips All-in-one cooker, or an 'instapot'.

Traditionally, the cooking is done over a charcoal stove giving the dish distinctive flavor.