Do you know that leftover rice kept in the fridge can become too dry?
When I have to heat up a bowl of leftover rice in the microwave oven, I always add a tablespoon of water to it. If I used leftover sauce, I will heat it up in a pot over the stove. I can add water to the sauce if I think it is not enough for the amount of rice I am heating. Once the sauce is boiling, I will then add the rice to heat up. Once the rice is fully heated, I will taste it to see if I need to add any other sauce to enhance its flavour.
Recently, I used the excess sauce from cooking Ginger Soya Sauce Chicken to heat up a bowl of leftover rice and discovered that it tasted just as flavourful as claypot rice.
These are the ingredients used for making a basic claypot rice.
You can see how the ingredients are prepared and cooked in this video:
These are the ingredients I used for making my ginger soya sauce chicken.
As my family do not eat food that are too sweet or salty, I am able to double the amount of water for making the sauce. However, should I found the sauce too bland, I can always add sugar, soya sauce and oyster sauce accordingly. Once the sauce is boiling, I will pour the excess sauce out into a bowl for storage. Then I continue to cook the ginger soya sauce chicken till the sauce thickens.
When I use the sauce from my ginger soya sauce chicken, I can also include the additional seasoning sauce and ingredients used for flavouring the clay pot rice which are as follows:
-Sesame Oil
-Shaoxing Wine
-Chinese Sausage
-Fried Shallot Oil
-Tsp Sesame Oil
-Spring Onion
-Fried Shallot
If I want Chinese sausage in the rice, I sliced one thinly to pan fry in a little oil. Once it is ready, I add the sausage and a little of its lard to the rice. It should taste good enough even without the spring onion and fried shallots added.
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