I am bored with cooking the same dishes for my loved ones and although they did not complain I am sure they will be bored with eating the same dishes ever so often. So, putting on my thinking cap, I was able to come up with this new dish - BBQ Chicken in Rice. I have all the ingredients needed to cook this dish readily available in my refrigerator and larder.
Ingredients:
- 1/2 piece of chicken breast
- 1 cup of barbecue sauce (normal or smoky); I used the smoky type.
- 1 cup wheat flour
- 1 cup cooked rice
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp pepper powder
- 1 tsp mixed herbs
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1 egg
- Water
- Cooking oil
- Parchment paper - 4 pieces (6 inches x 5 inches)
- 4 wooden skewers
Method:
- Boil the chicken breast till cooked.
- Shred the chicken breast by hand; it should yield 1 cupful of shredded chicken.
- Mix the shredded chicken with 1 cup of barbecue sauce. Add more sauce if it is insufficient to cover all the shredded chicken.
- Divide the mixture into 4 portions.
- Put 1 portion onto the parchment paper. Shape the mixture into a long cylindrical shape.
- Push a wooden skewer into the centre.
- Roll up the parchment paper and secure it with a stapler.
- Do the same for the other 3 portions.
- When completed, place them onto a metal plate and place the plate into the freezer.
- While waiting for the chicken to be slightly frozen, prepare the rice batter.
- Add the cooked rice, flour, salt, pepper, mixed herbs (you may reduce if you do not like your rice to be too strong), egg and baking powder into a mixing bowl.
- Stir the ingredients to mix them up evenly.
- Add water, tablespoon by tablespoon, till the rice batter holds together.
- Divide the batter into 4 portions.
- You may place each portion onto pieces of plastic for easier handling.
- Remove the chicken skewers from the freezer.
- Remove the parchment paper from the chicken skewers.
- Place 1 stick of the frozen chicken onto the rice batter.
- Roll up the rice batter to embed the frozen chicken in it.
- Repeat the process for the other 3 portions.
- Heat up some cooking oil in a pan.
- Deep fry the chicken skewers till they are golden brown on all sides.
- Serve with more barbecue sauce or chili sauce or tomato sauce.