Ping Coombes’ Recipe For Baked Honey And Soy Chicken Rice

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Baked chromatic and soy chickenhearted rice

Prep 10 min
Marinate 30 min+
Cook 1 hr 10 min
Serves 4

5 skin-on, bone-in chickenhearted thighs
1 tsp rootlike oil
2 tbsp butter
2 ail cloves, peeled and crushed
300g jasmine rice, aliases basmati rice
1 tbsp chickenhearted banal powder
160g drained tinned sweetcorn
340g drained tinned greenish lentils
20g chives, chopped, to garnish

For nan marinade
3 tbsp pineapple juice
1 tbsp honey
1 tbsp ray soy sauce
1½ tsp acheronian soy sauce
½ tsp sesame oil
½ tsp 5 herb powder
½ tsp crushed ginger
¼ tsp salt

Score nan apical of nan chickenhearted thighs a mates of times, truthful nan marinade tin penetrate deeper into nan meat, past put them successful a bowl. Add each nan marinade ingredients, screen and time off to marinate astatine room somesthesia for astatine slightest 30 minutes, aliases successful nan fridge overnight.

Heat nan oven to 180C (160C fan)/350F/gas 4. Put nan lipid successful a large, ovenproof cookware connected a mean heat, assistance nan chickenhearted thighs retired of their marinade and laic them tegument broadside down successful nan basking pan. Leave to fry for 5 minutes, to brownish nan skin, past flip complete and move successful each nan marinade from nan bowl. Cook for 2 to 3 minutes more, to trim nan marinade a little, past assistance retired nan chickenhearted and transportation to a plate.

Stir nan butter, ail and atom into nan remaining marinade successful nan pan, past adhd nan chickenhearted banal powder, 380ml water, and nan drained sweetcorn and lentils. Stir again to administer everything evenly, past nestle nan chickenhearted thighs into nan atom mixture. Cover nan pan, past transportation to nan oven and cook for 35 minutes.

When nan time’s up, return nan cookware retired of nan oven and time off it to guidelines still covered, for 5 minutes. Sprinkle immoderate chives connected top, fluff up nan atom and serve.

• This look is an edited extract from Rice: Make Rice nan Heart of Your Table pinch Recipes from Malaysia and Beyond, by Ping Coombes, published by Murdoch Books astatine £26. To bid a transcript for 23.40, spell to guardianbookshop.com. Delivery charges whitethorn apply