Chicken Arroz Caldo

A Filipino comfort food. Best eaten on a cold and rainy day.

 Ingredients:
• 4 chicken breasts or wings
• 2 cups of sticky rice (uncooked)
• 6 cups of chicken stock 
• 2 knobs of ginger (peeled, chopped 1/4 inches)
• 4 cloves of garlic (chopped roughly)
• 1 onion 
• spring onions
• 2 tablespoons patis or fish sauce
• salt and pepper

Procedure

• Get a big pot and add some olive oil. Saute the chicken. 
• Add the chopped onion, garlic, and ginger. Let it sautee until the other side of the chicken browns.
• Add uncooked rice, add the patis or fish sauce. Mix around and add chicken stock.
• Cover and bring to simmer.
• When simmering, bring heat to medium and continue to stir. Then make sure the rice doesn’t stick to the bottom of the pot.
• Continue to check the tenderness of the rice. If mixture is getting too thick, loosen with lukewarm water.
• When rice is cooked, serve with chicken in a bowl and garnish with spring onions, crunchy fried garlic, hard boiled egg, a dash of black pepper and a squeeze of calamansi.