When I am sick....Dakjuk is it!

 It seems like my body has its own weather sensor. With the change of weather, it's really easy for me to get sick. :-( But at least, this means Spring is here, finally!

Whenever anyone is sick back home, my mom will be cooking porridge and everyone has to join in. It's no wonder that I am used to associating eating porridge to being sick. When I am here and I am sick, I especially appreciate my mom! Here, I have to cook porridge myself. Previously, I cook porridge using my trusty rice cooker; like how my mom does it. Then a week or two ago, I saw this recipe on Maangchi's website and it seems so easy even without using a rice cooker! I have tried this recipe twice already...both times when I was actually not sick.

A word about Maangchi: I have been reading her website for about a year now...she's like my teacher of Korean food. Plus, she just comes off as such a positive, cheerful people person who loves sharing and encouraging her fans' cooking. I have so far tried her recipe for dakjuk, yachaejeon, and kimchi. Her instructions are clear and really easy to understand. Whenever I feel a craving for Korean food, I'll head over to her site and look for inspiration. :-)


Some modifications I made:
Instead of using a whole chicken, I used chicken pieces.
Didn't bother with soaking the rice for 1 hour...cut the time by maybe half.:-P
Didn't buy spring onion, so I skipped that.
I especially enjoy eating this with my homemade chilli sauce.

Ingredients:  modified from Wokking Mum's Hainanese Chicken Rice Chilli Sauce

• 3 Chillies [didn't bother removing the seeds :-P]
• 1 slice of Ginger
• 4 clove  of Garlic, skin removed
• 1 clove of Shallot
• A few squeeze of Lemon Juice [comes in a bottle]
• A cup of Chicken Broth [added to the consistency I want my chilli sauce to be]

Method: Put everything in a blender and blend away! *Be careful when taking a whiff of the newly made chilli sauce. I took too big of a whiff the first time and I think some of my olfactory cells died!

Results: AMAZING! ^_^ I was initially quite doubtful of all the garlic I put in...but by the end of cooking, it has all melted in the pot! The taste of the chicken is so comforting as well. And the chilli sauce accentuate the chicken taste of the porridge. Because my chicken were frozen, its blood kinda ooze out...scooped most of it out from the pot

Actually this dish reminds me of the porridge and steamed white chicken that I loved in a small town off Rawang....I think it's Sg. Buloh. It's a small stall by the roadside. The chicken is just so smooth and succulent! *dreaming*