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  whole chicken (approx. 1.7 kg) or 2 whole chickens (approx. 1 kg each)

  1
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  sea salt

  2 - 3 tsp

Chilli sauce

• 

  fresh long red chilli

  6 - 8
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  piece fresh ginger cut into slices

  4 cm
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  garlic cloves

  2
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  freshly squeezed lime juice

  50 g
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  sea salt to season

  1 - 2 pinches

Rice and chicken

• 

  eschalots cut into halves

  2
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  garlic clove

  2
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  piece fresh ginger cut into slices

  5 cm
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  extra virgin olive oil

  2 tbsp
• 

  water plus extra to cook

  1000 g
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  Chicken stock paste

  2 tsp
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  spring onion/green onion cut into halves

  1
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  sesame oil plus an extra ½ tsp

  1 tbsp
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  jasmine rice

  350 g
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  pandan leaves

  2
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  soy sauce

  1 tbsp
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  sugar

  ¼ tsp
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  cucumber cut into slices

  1
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  tomatoes cut into slices

  4
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  fresh coriander leaves only, to garnish