Edith loves pumpkins. We love claypot rice. So this was a marriage of interests ... a claypot cooked pumpkin rice which has all the flavours you’d find in a claypot cooked rice, plus the sweetness and goodness of Japanese pumpkins! I hope you like this recipe.
300g pumpkin, cubed, rubbed with 1 tbsp quality Japanese sesame oil, roasted at 190 C for 20 mins
4 dried shiitake, rehydrated, sliced thin
chicken skin from the neck and cavity region
1 chicken thigh, deboned, portioned
1 yuncheong (liver sausage)
1 Cup sliced Chinese cabbage
1 clove garlic, thinly sliced
2 cups rice (to 2 cups water and 1/2 cup chicken stock)
Marinating sauce for chicken
1 tbsp toasted sesame oil
1/2 tsp white pepper powder
1/3 tsp aged black rice vinegar
Marinate the chicken parts in the marinating solution.
In a Claypot, sauté the ingredients in sesame oil in this order - shallots, dried shrimps, yuncheong, chicken skin and chicken parts (drained of marinade - set the marinade aside), cabbage, garlic then the rice right at the end. Sauté till fragrant.
Pour in the reserved marinade. Mix well.
Add the water and chicken stock. Place the pumpkin pieces, and drain the liquid and marinating sesame oil from the pumpkin into the pot.
For me, I cooked the Claypot on medium low heat for 30 minutes.