Hainanese Chicken Rice: Recipe For Singaporean Chicken Rice

Ingredients

• 1 x 1.5kg (3lb 5oz) chicken
• Salt flakes, to taste
• 3cm piece ginger, peeled and roughly chopped
• 2 green onions, trimmed and halved
• 2 tablespoons Shaoxing rice wine (40ml)
• 2 tablespoons vegetable oil, more or less (40ml)
• 3 red shallots, finely sliced
• 2 cloves garlic, finely sliced
• 400g (14oz) jasmine rice
• Ginger & Green Onion Sauce
• 1 Lebanese cucumber, sliced into half moons
• Sambal oelek, sambal goreng or other chilli sauce (optional)