1-First Step: Prepare the Chicken Begin by fully removing the innards from 1 whole chicken and blanch it in boiling water for a few minutes to clean and tighten the skin. You can follow with an optional ice bath to make the skin springy. Salt the chicken inside and out, then stuff the cavity with green onions, pandan leaves, optional kaffir lime leaves, and fresh ginger.

2-Second Step: Set Up for Sous Vide Dissolve turmeric powder in cold drinking water and mix it with unsalted chicken stock in a sous vide bag along with the prepared chicken. Vacuum seal the bag carefully to avoid any leaks. Set your sous vide machine to 160°F and cook for 3 hours, allowing the chicken to reach perfect tenderness.

3-Third Step: Cook the Rice After rinsing the jasmine white rice, heat vegetable oil in a wok and sauté garlic, fresh ginger, and shallot until they smell great but don’t burn. Stir in the rice to coat it, then move everything to a rice cooker. Add reserved chicken broth, pandan leaves, green onion stalks, and more ginger, then cook on white rice mode for fluffy results.

4-Fourth Step: Make the Sauces For the ginger scallion sauce, mix finely chopped fresh ginger, fresh green onions, and salt, then pour hot cooked vegetable oil over it to release the flavors; add optional Chinese sand ginger powder if you like. For the red chili sauce, combine bird’s eye chili, finely chopped fresh ginger, diced garlic cloves, fresh lime juice, sugar, salt, and a spoonful of leftover chicken broth.

5-Fifth Step: Prepare the Sweet Soy Sauce and Garnishes Shallow-fry garlic for chips, then mix the resulting vegetable oil with sweet soy sauce, leftover chicken broth, the fried garlic chips, and sliced fresh ginger. For garnishes, slice fresh cucumbers, chop green onions and fresh cilantro, and have optional sesame oil and salt ready to brush on the chicken.

6-Final Step: Serve the Dish Remove the chicken from the sous vide bag, discard the aromatics, and strain the broth for later use. Optionally debone the chicken, brush it with sesame oil and salt, then plate it with the cooked rice, sliced cucumbers, cilantro, and green onions. Serve the sauces on the side for a complete, delicious meal that takes about 3 hours and 15 minutes total.