Description
This delicious Korean-style slow cooker chicken is perfect served with a mountain of fluffy and aromatic Jasmine rice, sesame pak choi and lots of kimchee.
Ingredients
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For the Korean Slow Cooker Chicken
- 4–6 skinless boneless chicken thighs
- 2 tbsp freshly squeezed orange juice
- 2 tbsp soy sauce
- 1 1/2 tbsp gouchjang
- 1 tbsp soft light brown sugar
- 1/2 tbsp mirin
- 1/2 tsp toasted sesame oil
- 1 large banana shallot
- 1 large garlic clove
For the Rice Bowls
- 140g (5 oz) jasmine rice
- large handful kimchee
- 2 large spring onions
- 1 x quantity sesame pak choi
Instructions
- To make the chicken, blitz together the shallot and garlic, peeled and roughly chopped, the brown sugar, sesame oil, orange juice, mirin, gochujang and soy sauce in a high powered blender or mini chopper to create a smooth paste. Combine with the chicken thighs in the slow cooker and cook for 2 hours on high, or 4 hours on low until the chicken is tender.
- Cook the Jasmine rice for 12-15 minutes in a pan of boiling water over a high heat. Meanwhile, blanch the pak choi for the sesame pak choi and thinly slice the spring onions.
- To assemble the bowls, divide the chicken and some of the cooking liquid over the jasmine rice, and serve the sesame pak choi and a generous amount of kimchee alongside. Sprinkle the spring onion – topped, tailed and thinly sliced – over the chicken and serve immediately.
Notes
In the recipe I’ve linked to above for my sesame pak choi I’ve used black sesame seeds. If you prefer and for extra flavour – as I have done here – substitute furikake instead.