Makansutra Singapore Food Ebook 2023/24

CLAYPOT Claypot Rice

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Claypot rice is a time consuming Southern Chinese dish to make. Often a wait of about 30 minutes is normal. The rice is baked in a claypot over low wood-fire heat before adding cooked ingredients such as diced chicken, pork, salted fish and lup cheong (Chinese sausages). The magic is in the aroma released by the burnt rice (like a good paella) below that permeates the rice and ingredients in the pot. The smokiness in this dish with bits of crusty burned edge rice is what you look out for. You drizzle some dark soy sauce and oils in before you mixed it all up

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