Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, loh mai kai (glutinous rice with chicken and mushroom). One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Loh mai kai is a popular snack served at Chinese dim sum. Made with flavoured glutinous rice, topped with delicious chicken chunks, fried shiitake mushroom and sliced Chinese sausages, this homemade version is easy to make and always turns out amazing! Put some chicken, mushrooms, lapcheong and an egg wedge into each bowl. Lor Mai Gai is a traditional Cantonese dish, usually eaten as dim sum which is also known as snack.
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To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have loh mai kai (glutinous rice with chicken and mushroom) using 27 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Loh Mai Kai (Glutinous Rice with Chicken and Mushroom):
- Take 2 cups glutinous rice
- Prepare 2 boneless thighs
- Prepare 6 Chinese mushrooms
- Get 1 lapcheong (Chinese sausage)
- Get 2 cloves garlic, chopped
- Prepare 1/4 cup oil
- Make ready 1 egg (optional)
- Make ready Glutinous Rice Seasoning
- Get 1 tablespoon light soy sauce
- Get 1 teaspoon dark soy sauce
- Prepare 2 teaspoons salt
- Prepare 1 teaspoons sugar
- Prepare 1 teaspoon sesame oil
- Take 2 tablespoons fried shallot oil
- Get 1 teaspoon white pepper
- Get 1/2 cup water x2
- Make ready Chicken Marinade
- Take 1 tablespoon oyster sauce
- Make ready 1 tablespoon corn starch
- Take 1 tablespoon Chinese cookong wine
- Take 1 tablespoon ginger juice
- Prepare 1 tablespoon light soya sauce
- Take 1 teaspoon dark soya sauce
- Make ready 1 teaspoon 5 spice powder
- Make ready 1/2 teaspoon white pepper
- Get 1/2 teaspoon salt
- Prepare 1 teaspoon sugar
What you need to make Loh Mai Kai is bite-sized chicken pieces, Chinese sausages and Chinese dried mushroom and a strip of Char Siew pork and of course glutinous rice! Start this off by first soaking the glutinous rice in water but first giving it a few rounds of wash to get rid of the starch. Lo Mai Gai is the transliteration of 糯米鸡 in Cantonese, which means steamed glutinous rice with chicken. There are two variations of the glutinous rice with chicken.
Steps to make Loh Mai Kai (Glutinous Rice with Chicken and Mushroom):
- Rinse and soak glutinous rice for at least 6 hours, then drain. (Note: This helps to soften the rice)
- Marinate chicken, soak mushrooms. Slice mushrooms and lapcheong to stir fry in garlic and oil.
- Boil egg and slice into 6 wedges. Stir fry chicken with marinade.
- Heat up oil in pan to fry the glutinous rice in seasoning and 1/2 cup of water till fragrant. Add the other 1/2 cup of water at the end to stand for a bit.
- Put some chicken, mushrooms, lapcheong and an egg wedge into each bowl. Then add glutinous rice. Place bowls into steamer.
- Pour leftover sauce from chicken into each bowl and steaming for about 30 minutes. Topple bowl contents onto a plate to serve.
Lo Mai Gai is the transliteration of 糯米鸡 in Cantonese, which means steamed glutinous rice with chicken. There are two variations of the glutinous rice with chicken. In Malaysia, we place the chicken, Chinese sausage, and mushroom in small steel bowls, then topped with the glutinous rice and steam. Steamed Glutinous Rice With Chicken, or more popularly known as Loh Mai Kai / Lo Mai Gai is a classic dim sum dish served in the restaurants. It is a MUST order item when you dine in at any dim sum restaurants.
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