Easy Chicken Ham 鶏ハム
This simple chicken ham recipe uses a rice cooker or pot to create tender slices of chicken to use in sandwiches, salads, and ramen. It’s a great source of protein, is easy to make, and requires just 3 ingredients you already have in your kitchen!
Ingredients
- 1 Chicken Breast (*1)
- 1/2 tbsp sugar
- 1 tsp salt
Instructions
- 1
--- Prepare Chicken Breast ---
- 2
place a chicken breast on chopping board: Place a chicken breast on a clean chopping board.
- 3
butterfly chicken breast: Slice the long side of the chicken from the centre to left leaving a little bit so you can open it up.
- 4
butterfly chicken breast: Turn the chicken breast 180° and repeat the step 2.
- 5
Season the chicken breast with salt and sugar on each side and rub it in.
- 6
Roll the chicken breast with a cling wrap: Place some cling wrap on a work surface and roll then wrap the chicken breast tightly. At the same time, shape it into a round ham.
- 7
Put the rolled chicken into a ziplock bag: Put it in a ziplock bag. Place the ziplock bag into a bowl of water to seal it so there is no air pockets.
- 8
--- Cooking the rolled chicken breast ---
- 9
Make 176°F(80°C) water into a rice cooker: Pour 1 liter of boiling hot water into a rice cooker and add 300 ml of cold water to make the temperature of the water around 176 °F (80°C).
- 10
place the chicken into the rice cooker: Place the the ziplock bag with the rolled chicken into the rice cooker and put lid on.
- 11
Press keep warm: Press the "keep warm" function of the rice cooker and leave it for 2 hours.
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