Rice Cooker Chicken

Name: Rice Cooker Chicken
Prep time: 1 h 55 min
Cook time: 1 h 55 min
Total time: 1 h 55 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 4 boneless chicken thighs; 2 teaspoons cornstarch; 4 slices fresh ginger root, coarsely chopped; 6 cloves garlic, smashed; 1 teaspoons ground black pepper; 1 teaspoon salt; 1 teaspoons sesame seed oil; 118 milliliters soy sauce

Rice Cooker Chicken is a gluten free and dairy free main course. This recipe makes 4 servings with 356 calories, 23g of protein, and 20g of fat each. This recipe covers 14% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. A mixture of soy sauce, ground pepper, sesame seed oil, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so yummy. To use up the salt you could follow this main course with the Apple Turnovers Recipe as a dessert. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 1 hour and 55 minutes.

Instructions

Place the soy sauce, garlic, ginger, monosodium glutamate (if using), salt, pepper, and sesame oil into a large resealable plastic bag and squeeze the bag with your fingers to mix the ingredients and dissolve the salt.

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Msg

Sesame Oil

Soy Sauce

Garlic

Ginger

Pepper

Salt

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Ziploc Bags

Add the chicken thighs to the marinade and squeeze the bag again to coat the chicken. Squeeze as much air as possible out of the bag and zip the bag closed. Refrigerate for 1 hour.

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Chicken Thighs

Marinade

Whole Chicken

Mix the cornstarch and 2 tablespoons of water in a small bowl until smooth.

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Corn Starch

Water

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Bowl

Pour the marinade from the plastic bag into a programmable electric rice cooker and mix in the cornstarch mixture until thoroughly combined.

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Corn Starch

Marinade

Rice

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Ziploc Bags

Rice Cooker

Place the chicken thighs into the sauce.

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Chicken Thighs

Sauce

Add just enough water to barely cover the chicken and stir.

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Whole Chicken

Water

Close the lid of the cooker, set the cooker for the regular rice setting, and press the start button. When steam begins coming out of the top of the cooker (after about 20 minutes), set the cooker's timer for 10 minutes. When the timer goes off, uncover and stir the chicken. Set timer and cook for another 10 minutes; switch the cooker to the keep-warm setting. Allow chicken to rest in the keep-warm setting for 20 minutes before serving.

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Whole Chicken

Rice

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Kitchen Timer