Sticky Rice with Spicy Thai Chicken and Stir-fried Greens

Sticky rice and a little Jasmine rice are cooked by the easy absorption method and served with spicy Thai flavoured roasted chicken thighs and bok choy and baby leeks, stirfried with garlic and oyster sauce.

Prep:
20mins
Cook:
20mins
Serves:
4

Ingredients

300g Glutinous white rice, well rinsed in cold water

100g Jasmine rice, well rinsed in cold water

2 Sticks lemongrass, white bulb part only (lower 6-7cm), peeled of 1 layer of outer leaf, thinly sliced

5 Cloves garlic, thinly sliced

2g Freshly ground black pepper

20g Thai palm sugar, chopped

30g Ginger, peeled and sliced

1 Red chilli, sliced

60ml Fish sauce

30ml Japanese soy sauce

45ml Vegetable oil

800g Free range, skinned boned chicken thighs

500g Baby bok choy, cut into six pieces lengthways

450g Baby leeks, white part only, outer leaf peeled off, leeks sliced 1cm thick on diagonal

45ml Oyster sauce

150ml Thai sweet chilli sauce

Method

Preheat the oven to 200°C and line a large oven tray with baking paper

Use a rice cooker to cook the rice or, place both rices into a saucepan and add enough water to come 5cm above the level of the rice. Bring to a rolling boil then move to your smallest stove element, cover and turn the heat to the lowest setting

Cook without uncovering for any reason for 20 minutes

Remove from the heat and without uncovering, allow to stand for 5 minutes

Uncover and gently fluff up the rice with a fork but don’t mash the rice grains. Cover and reserve

Put the lemongrass, 4 cloves of the garlic, the pepper, sugar, ginger, chilli, 3 tablespoons of the fish sauce, the soy sauce and 1 tablespoon of the oil into a small food processer and process until smooth. This is the paste

Place the chicken into a large bowl and add the paste

Mix well and then put the chicken thighs side by side on the baking paper

Drizzle any paste left in the bowl evenly over the chicken

Place in the oven for 20 minutes or until well cooked

Meanwhile when the chicken and rice are almost ready, heat a wok over high heat and add the remaining garlic, the bok choy, leeks and 50ml water

Stir fry for 3-4 minutes or until the bok choy has wilted then add the fish and oyster sauces and mix well

Stir-fry for 1 minute

Serve the chicken and greens on the rice with the chilli sauce on the side