🇹🇭 Thailand
Khao Man Gai, made with supermarket ingredients
The authentic flavor in three easy steps with what any supermarket sells, in metric, for students and anyone cooking far from home (serves 2).
40 min3 to wash
3 lazy steps
- 1
Boil chicken thighs in chicken broth with half the sliced ginger and garlic for 20 minutes, then remove chicken and save broth.
- 2
Sauté remaining garlic in a pot, add jasmine rice to toast for 1 minute, then add 350 ml reserved broth, cover, and cook for 15 minutes.
- 3
Mix fermented soybean paste, sweet soy sauce, vinegar, sugar, chopped chilies, and remaining ginger to make the sauce; serve sliced chicken over rice with sauce.
🇹🇭 How it's eaten in Thailand
In Thailand, it is always served with a side bowl of hot clear chicken soup, fresh cucumber slices, and cilantro sprigs.
Cooked from this recipe
A miso-based stand-in for the tao jiao sauce, shiso instead of cilantro and cucumber on the side, all from a Japanese supermarket.
Ingredients (serves 2)
- Bone-in skin-on chicken thighs450 g
- Jasmine rice250 ml
- Chicken broth500 ml
- Garlic (minced)3 cloves
- Ginger (sliced) 4 cm piece
- Thai taochiao (soybean paste)2 tbsp
Swap: Yellow miso 1.5 tbsp + soy sauce 0.5 tbsp（rich umami profile）
- Thai sweet soy sauce1 tbsp
Swap: Soy sauce 1 tbsp + molasses 1 tsp（sweet dark soy flavor）
- Thai bird's eye chilies2
Swap: Jalapeño (chopped) 1/2（easy to find）
- Rice vinegar1 tbsp
- Sugar1 tsp
- Cucumber (sliced)1/2
- Cilantro2 sprigs
Authentic ingredients in Thailand
- chicken1/2 whole
- jasmine rice500 ml
- Thai taochiao (soybean paste)3 tbsp
- Thai sweet soy sauce1 tbsp
- Thai bird's eye chilies4
- ginger2 tbsp
- garlic4 cloves
- rice vinegar1 tbsp
- sugar1 tsp
- cucumber1
- cilantro4 sprigs
Optional authentic touch
Traditional recipes render chicken skin fat first to fry the raw rice for richer flavor.
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