Recipe: Singapore Chicken Rice with Japanese green tea

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When cooking the Singapore Style chicken rice we use ginger and Japanese leak to get rid of the smell of the meat, making it a clearer taste while it's also fragrant.


This time, we came up with the idea of adding green tea, which is becoming well known to contain a lot of umami and it enhances the flavor of dishes.


Green tea contains components that erase bad smell, and helps meat to be more tender. By adding it to rice and meat, it brings a more gentle taste. You also have a slight scent of the tea, which is actually really nice, too.


Today we wrote a recipe on how to cook a Japanese fusion of the Singapore style chicken rice using green tea.


How to make Singapore Chicken Rice using green tea


Ingredients

Chicken Rice

  • rice…200g

  • green tea (cooled off)...180ml

  • minced onions...1/4

  • garlic... 1 clove, minced

  • soy sauce...1 teaspoon

  • chicken thigh...200~300g

  • salt and peper

Ginger Sauce

  • Japanese leak...1/2 minced

  • ginger...1 clove minced

  • garlic...1 clove minced

  • sesame oil...1 spoon

  • cooking/olive oil...1 spoon

  • sugar...1 teaspoon

  • soy sauce...1 spoon

  • the left over tea leaf when you brewed the tea...minced, 1 teaspoon

Instructions

    1. wash/rinse the rice with water, and take out the water.
    2. Add all the ingredients for the chicken rice in the rice cooker, and mix so the seasoning evenly spreads to the rice.
    3. Add the chicken thigh on top, and cook.
    4. While cooking the chicken rice, make the sauce. Mix all the ingredients together. 
    5. Put sugar and soy sauce little by little so you get the taste you like.
    6. When the rice is cooked, take out the chicken and slice the chicken to the size you like.
    7. Serve the chicken rice and vegetables you like on a plate. Enjoy with the ginger green tea sauce!



    Key Points


    The 2 main components to note from green tea are catechin and tannin. These help the ingredients to ease off bad smell, and to make it tender,


    Catechin has a strong sterilization effect, which also was important to preserve food. The bad smell usually comes from the rotting process of the ingredients, so stopping it neutralizes the smell.



    You shouldn't just drink tea, you should be eating it, too!


    Drinking green tea is becoming more and more popular, but even the Japanese are starting to forget we used to eat green tea leaves.


    As Japan became financially wealthier, our mindsets shifted to better tasting, rather than healthy. But we all are starting to realize that the habit of eating healthy actually allows us to really embrace the delicious food when we have it.


    Science are also telling us green tea can actually enhance flavor, so why not be one of the early adoptors to take in tea leaves to your diet :)

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