Bai Mon
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5.0
3 reviews
Excellent
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Prep Time
45 mins
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Cook Time
2 hrs 45 mins
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Total Time
3 hrs 15 mins
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Servings
8 people
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Course
Main Course
Bai Mon
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Bai Mon is a delicious traditional Cambodian dish consisting of rice and chicken, that is typically steamed.
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Ingredients
For the chicken
- 1 whole chicken
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 4 quarts water
For the sauce
- 6 small red hot peppers
- ½ cup white vinegar
- ½ cup fish sauce
- ⅓ cup sugar
- 2 cups boiled water
- 2 oz. ginger
- 5 cloves garlic
For the rice
- 5 cups long grain white rice (ideally jasmine rice)
- 3 cubes chicken broth , diluted in ½ cup boiling water
- ½ cup vegetable oil
- 5 cloves garlic roughly chopped
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 tablespoon fish sauce
- 2 scallions , chopped
- Chicken's cooking juices
To accompany
- 2 cucumbers , cut into sticks
- 1 lettuce
- A few scallions , cut into sticks
Equipment
- Steamer basket
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Instructions
Chicken
- In a large pot with a steamer basket, boil the 4 quarts of water.
- Coat the chicken with salt.
- Place the chicken in the steamer basket and cook for 30 minutes.
- Then, turn the chicken over and cook for another 20 minutes.
- Reserve the chicken cooking water.
- Cut the chicken into pieces.
Sauce
- Mix the peppers, ginger, garlic cloves and half of the boiling water in a blender.
- Pour this mixture into a large salad bowl and add the remaining boiling water, vinegar, sugar and fish sauce. Stir well with a beater.
- Reserve this sauce to water the rice.
Rice
- Wash the rice 3 times and then soak in cold water for 15 minutes. Drain well.
- Remove the excess fat from the chicken cooking water and take 1¼ cup/600ml (keep the rest in the pot).
- In a wok, heat oil over medium heat and add garlic. Mix well and fry until golden.
- Add the scallions, mix well and cook for 20 seconds.
- Remove half of this mixture and reserve in a bowl.
- Add the drained rice and mix well.
- Add the diluted chicken broth cubes and mix well.
- Add the sugar and fish sauce and mix well.
- Finally, add the reserved 1¼ cup/600ml broth, mix well and cook over medium heat until the liquid is absorbed.
- Place the pot of stock broth over a high heat.
- Place the rice in a large thin cheesecloth and place this cloth in the steamer basket of the pot.
- Lower the heat, cover and steam the rice for 30 minutes.
- Serve the following in a large dish: a few spoons of rice, a piece of chicken. Sprinkle rice with reserved garlic/scallion mixture.
- Place a small bowl of sauce, lettuce, cucumbers and scallions on the side or center of the dish.
- Sprinkle with sauce.
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