Shortcut for Making One Pot Rice

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.