Bubur Ayam Ala McD Yang Sedap | McD's Style Chicken Porridge
Who doesn't love chicken porridge, especially the famous and crowd-pleasing McD's chicken porridge?
McD's chicken porridge has becomes a signature and an inspiration to many amateur chefs like me to try making the chicken porridge that taste very much like the McD's.
So, what are exactly the secrets behind it's deliciousness?
I underwent a series of trial and error just to answer this question.
McD's chicken porridge is basically cooked with sliced ginger and chicken pieces (I noticed they usually use the dark meat rather than white meat, that is why their chicken porridge is different from the others).
It is garnished with fried shallots, chopped green onion, sliced red chilies and sesame oil.
Some of the recipes called for adding sesame oil into the porridge, but I prefer to add it just for the garnish.
To enhance the flavors, you may need to add some chicken stock powder into your chicken porridge.
Sound easy, eh?
But, how come after adding those ingredients into my chicken porridge I still feel that something is missing?
This is where the trial and error episodes begin, just to find the perfect recipe for our version of chicken porridge.
Chicken porridge is one of the Chinese dish, it is called congee among Chinese, usually enjoyed with Youtiao, a deep fried dough that is known as cakoi among the locals.
Fragrant rice is remarkable in Chinese cuisine, and due to that reason, most of the time, their chicken congee is cooked using fragrant rice.
This makes their chicken porridge is so delicious and fragrant!
But the point is, not everyone is using fragrant rice at home.
So, how do we make our chicken porridge fragrant despite using the normal white rice?
Here's the tip, use pandan leaf.
It fixed the imperfections and makes your chicken porridge aromatic.
Trust me!
I have used pandan leaf to cook various dishes before, and it wasn't just limited to nasi lemak and chicken rice.
Pandan leaf can be added into curry, chicken cooked in soy sauce and also our favorite bubur lambuk.
Another tips, the ginger garlic paste.
This is my another weapon to make my chicken porridge adored by my whole family!
Even my ex-officemates approved the deliciousness of my chicken porridge!
And you must diligently stir your porridge continuously once the rice has broken and puffed.
Stirring will helps the rice to becomes smooth textured.
Watch step-by-step tutorial on how to make the chicken porridge here :
So, if you're ready, let's dive in to the recipe.
Happy cooking!
Bubur Ayam Ala McD
(McD's Style Chicken Porridge)
Category : Bubur
Preparation Time : 10 minutes
Cooking Time : 45 minutes
Serving Size : 7 to 8 people
INGREDIENTS :
2 cups of rice - cleanly washed and drained
2 pieces of chicken breast
4 liters of water (18 cups)
2 inches of ginger (sliced into thin, long pieces)
2 tablespoons of chicken stock powder / 1 & 1/2 cubes of chicken stock powder
2 pandan leaves (knotted)
White pepper powder as needed
Salt to taste
3 cloves of garlic (pounded finely)
1 inch of ginger (pounded finely)
3 tablespoons of cooking oil
Garnish :
3 or more sticks of crab stick - cut into thin pieces and fried
Green onion - chopped
2 red chilies - seed removed and thinly sliced
Sesame oil
INSTRUCTIONS :
- Heat about 3 tablespoons of cooking oil in a pan. Once hot, add in finely pounded garlic and ginger and stir fry for about 1 minute, until fragrant.
- Remove from pan and set aside for later use.
- Bring 4 liters of water to boil in a heavy bottomed large pot.
- Once boiled, add in pandan leaves and cleaned rice, stir for a while.
- Add in sliced ginger and chicken stock powder or chicken stock cube.
- Then, add in chicken breasts and season with salt, so that the chicken breasts will not taste bland. Stir and simmer over medium heat for 15 minutes. Stir occasionally.
- After 15 minutes, remove chicken breasts with a tong and place in a plate/container. Allow cooked chicken breasts to cool before shredding into small pieces.
- Cook until the rice is puffing and broken. Add in the ginger garlic paste.
- Cook the porridge over medium low heat, while continue stirring for about 30 minutes, until the porridge becomes smooth textured and creamy.
- Season porridge with white pepper powder to your liking.
- Cook for another few minutes, then turn off the heat.
- Once cooked chicken breasts are cool, shred them into smaller pieces. You may add some of the shredded chicken breasts into the porridge of you like.
HOW TO ASSEMBLE THE CHICKEN PORRIDGE
Chicken porridge is best to be serve immediately, while the porridge is still hot.
Pour about 3 ladles of the porridge into a serving bowl.
Garnish with shredded chicken breasts, fried shallots, fried crab sticks, chopped green onion and sliced red chilies.
Lastly, slosh some sesame oil all over the porridge.
Ready to be served!
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| Enjoy! |
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