Chicken & Rice (Cơm Gà)
Simple chicken & rice recipe using the crockpot
Servings: 4
Equipment
- 1 Crockpot
Ingredients
Ingredients to marinade the chicken:
- 1½ tsp dried ginger
- 1 tsp granulated chicken powder
- 6 tbsp soy sauce
- ½ tsp pepper
- ½ tsp turmeric
- 2½ tsp honey
- ½ tsp garlic powder
- 7 pieces of boneless chicken thighs rinsed and pat dry using paper towels.
Ingredients for the rice:
- 1½ cup Jasmine rice rinsed 3X.
- 1½ cup chicken broth or water I used low sodium chicken broth.
Instructions
Instructions to marinade the chicken:
- Add dried ginger, granulated chicken powder, soy sauce, honey, turmeric and garlic powder in a bowl. Mix well to combine all the ingredients.
- Pour the marinade over the chicken thighs, cover and let marinade overnight in the fridge.
Instructions to assemble the crockpot:
- Rinse the rice 3X and drain all the water. Then pour the rinsed rice in the crockpot.
- Add the chicken broth to the rice and spread the rice out evenly on the bottom of the crockpot.
- Add the marinated chicken thighs on top of the rice. Make sure to fold the chicken thighs up. This makes plating look better :) Discard any juice from the marinade.
- Add the pepper on top of the chicken.
- Close the lid and turn the crockpot to low and it it cook for 5 hours.