Thai Khao Man Gai Street Food Recipe and Adventure (วิภ| Family Recipe Book | Umami

Ingredients

• Strongly urge you to read directions on the link. This tells you how Nongs chicken and rice is made in great detail. Wonderful reading.
• 1 whole chicken
• ½ tbsp. salt
• Water to cover chicken
• ½ kg. uncooked rice (I used high quality Thai jasmine rice, nice and fragrant)
• About ½ liter of chicken stock broth (this was an estimate, really you should use about 1 cup of rice to 1.8 cups of chicken broth, or whatever ratio you normally use)
• ⠛ tbsp. salt
• 50 g. Thai garlic (regular garlic will work too)
• Chicken oil for frying (or vegetable oil will work well too)
• All the rest of the chicken broth
• ½ winter melon (about ½ kg or so) - you can also use daikon radish, or even nothing
• Sprigs of cilantro
• Salt to taste
• Pepper to taste
• 50 g. ginger (old and strong ginger is best)
• 50 g. garlic (peel the garlic)
• 5 - 10 Thai bird chilies (depending on how spicy you want it)
• 1 stalk of cilantro roots
• About 3 tbsp. of fermented soy bean sauce (you can add more later if not salty enough, but it can be quite salty), if you can find the Thai version, that will be best)
• 2 tbsp. white vinegar (normal distilled white vinegar, NOT apple cider or rice)
• 1 tbsp. sugar
• ½ tbsp. dark soy sauce (kecap manis)
• About ¼ - ½ cup of chicken broth, but more if it's too salty or too thick
• Cucumbers to garnish
• Cilantro to garnish