Chicken ‘Okowa’ Steamed Glutenous Rice
Chicken ‘Okowa’ Steamed Glutenous Rice

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This chicken and vegetable 'Okowa' is, I can say quite surely, one of my top there favourite dishes. Glutenous rice is used to make 'Mochi' and it has sticky and rubbery texture. 'Okowa' is the name of a type of steamed glutinous rice dish, often mixed with vegetables, nuts and other various ingredients. This chicken and vegetable 'Okowa' is, I can say quite surely, one of my top there favourite dishes.

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To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook chicken ‘okowa’ steamed glutenous rice using 15 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Chicken ‘Okowa’ Steamed Glutenous Rice:
  1. Prepare 2 cups (180 ml) cup) Glutinous Rice *short grain preferred
  2. Prepare 1 cup (180 ml) cup) Japanese Short Grain Rice
  3. Prepare 2 Chicken Thigh Fillets *about 250g
  4. Make ready 1 tablespoon Sake
  5. Take Salt
  6. Take 80 g Bamboo Shoots (I use canned cooked Bamboo Shoots.) *sliced
  7. Prepare 1-2 teaspoons Soy Sauce
  8. Get 1/2 Carrot *about 80g
  9. Take 5-6 Shiitake *about 80g
  10. Take Toasted Sesame Seeds for topping *optional
  11. Make ready Spring Onion for topping *finely sliced, optional
  12. Get <Soup Ingredients>
  13. Make ready 2 cups (500 ml) Chicken or Dashi Stock *OR Water 2 cups & Asian Chicken Bouillon Powder 1 teaspoon
  14. Make ready 2 tablespoons Soy Sauce
  15. Get 1 tablespoon Mirin

And the good news is, its super easy to make them at home too. The best thing about homemade Loh Mai Kai is you can actually decide on. Okowa (おこわ)is the name given to a type of rice dish in which sticky glutinous rice is mixed with all kinds of vegetables or meat and steamed. It's related to Chinese sticky rice, which you might have had as part of a dim sum meal.

Instructions to make Chicken ‘Okowa’ Steamed Glutenous Rice:
  1. Wash Glutinous Rice and Regular Short Grain Rice together and drain.
  2. Cut Chicken into 2cm size and place in a bowl. Add Sake and a pinch of Salt and massage, set aside.
  3. Place drained Bamboo Shoots in a bowl, add Soy Sauce and marinate while you are preparing other vegetables.
  4. Cut Carrot in half lengthways and slice 3 to 4 mm thick. Slice Shiitake. If you use dried Shiitake, they must be well rehydrated.
  5. Make soup by mixing all the ingredients.
  6. Place well-drained Rice in the rice cooker’s inner pot, place Bamboo Shoots, Carrot and Shiitake slices over the Rice evenly. DO NOT MIX. Gently pour the soup over.
  7. Plug the rice cooker in and press the Cook/Start button. When the rice is cooked and steamed, open the lid and toss the rice gently.
  8. Sprinkle some toasted Sesame Seeds and chopped Spring Onions over the top and serve.

If the rice mix is steamed in small packets, wrapped in a bamboo leaf, it's called chimaki. Glutinous rice, also known as sweet or sticky rice can be easily purchased at any Asian grocery store. It must be soaked for several hours prior to use to give it a tender texture. It does expand a little after soaking and is usually steamed, unlike regular rice which is normally cooked in water. Lo Mai Gai is the transliteration of 糯米鸡 in Cantonese, which means steamed glutinous rice with chicken.

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