Easy Macau-Style Baked Portuguese Chicken Rice
Tender chicken baked over a bed of fried rice with creamy coconut curry sauce and melted cheese on top. This easy and simple Macau-style baked Portuguese chicken rice is a great meal for the whole family to enjoy and restaurant quality.
Ingredients
- 6 skinless boneless chicken thighs
- 1 cup mozzarella cheese or mozzarella cheddar cheese, shredded
For the Fried Rice
- 6 cups cooked jasmine rice or cooked long grain white rice
- 4 large eggs
- 3 tablespoon regular soy sauce
- 2 tablespoon vegetable oil or any neutral oil
Chicken Marinade
- 1 teaspoon Shaoxing Cooking Wine or dry sherry wine or chicken broth
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon garlic powder
- ½ teaspoon curry powder
For the Coconut Curry Sauce
- 2 cups Yukon gold potatoes or yellow russet potatoes
- ¾ cup onion diced
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil or any neutral oil
- 14 fl oz. coconut milk full fat kind
- 1 teaspoon curry powder
- 1 teaspoon ground turmeric
- 1 teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Slice chicken thighs into half. Season chicken with the marinade ingredients as listed above and set aside to marinate as you work on the next step.
- Peel and dice potatoes into 1-inch cubes. Then in the large pot of filled with enough water, bring it to boil on high heat and boil the diced potatoes for 5 minutes or until fork tender. Strain the potatoes and set aside.
- Heat 2 tablespoon or 30 ml vegetable oil in a large pan on medium high heat. Add the cooked rice, breaking it apart. Then season rice with soy sauce and pour eggs onto the rice. Toss everything together until eggs are cooked. Transfer fried rice into a 9x13 baking dish and evenly spread it out.
- Preheat oven to 500 degrees F.
- Heat 1 tablespoon or 15 ml vegetable oil in the same pan on medium-high heat. Fry diced onions until softened. Add in marinated chicken thighs. Brown the chicken on each side for 5 minutes. Next add cooked potatoes, coconut milk, ground turmeric, curry powder and salt. Mix well.
- Spoon the chicken and sauce over fried rice and spread out evenly. Sprinkle shredded cheese over top. Broil in the oven for 5-10 minutes until cheese has melted and browns slightly, monitoring the process. Remove from the oven and serve hot to enjoy!
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Nutrition
Calories: 796kcal | Carbohydrates: 78g | Protein: 47g | Fat: 33g | Saturated Fat: 22g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 3g | Monounsaturated Fat: 6g | Trans Fat: 0.04g | Cholesterol: 296mg | Sodium: 1525mg | Potassium: 1140mg | Fiber: 4g | Sugar: 2g | Vitamin A: 410IU | Vitamin C: 22mg | Calcium: 207mg | Iron: 6mg