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Put the water, seasonings marked , crushed garlic, cilantro root, and green part of the green onion in a pot.
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Cook until the water is reduced to 2/3.
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Add the chicken thigh (remove the excess fat beforehand) in the reduced soup.
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When it comes to a boil again, cook the chicken skin side down for 3 minutes.
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Cover with a lid, and turn off the heat.
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Leave the pot with the lid on for 20 minutes or longer to let it cook the chicken in residual heat.
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When it is cooked, take out the chicken from the pot, and strain the broth.
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If you slice the chicken when it is still warm, it will fall apart, so let it cool down first before you slice.
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Wrap it to keep the moisture while cooling down.
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Taste the strained broth, and season with salt if necessary.
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Use 400-420 ml of the broth to cook rice.
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If you don't have enough amount of the broth, add water to fill up.
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Rinse the Thai rice briefly, and put in the pot, used for making the broth, or in a rice cooker.
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Add the broth.
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If you use a rice cooker, fill the broth as following the water gauge in the cooking pan!
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Cover with a lid, and cook over high heat and bring it to a boil.
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Cook for 1-2 more minutes, and turn down the heat to low.
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Cook over low heat for 10-12 minutes (to cook 2 rice cooker cups of rice).
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Turn off the heat, and leave it with a lid for 10 minutes to steam the rice.
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[Helpful Hints] Wrap the sliced chicken with plastic film.
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When you turn off the heat after cooking the rice, place the chicken on top of the rice to steam and warm up.
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This step makes the chicken more delicious.
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[For Your Reference] If you cook short grain rice or if you cook with a rice cooker, use the amount of water as following.
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For short grain rice: less than usual.
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For long grain rice: same as usual.
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When the rice is steamed, serve it with the sliced chicken, cucumber and tomato although I didn't put tomato for this time.
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Enjoy the dish with the Tauchu-Style Sauceand generous amount of coarsely chopped cilantro if you like.
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Recipe for reference: This is also a popular Thai dish.
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The stir-fried basil and chicken with rice (Phad Ga Prao) -.
