Chicken and Prawn Sambal Fried Rice

I love spicy food! And when my friend offered to give me some sambal which he made, I'm more than eager to accept it! The sambal is really fantastic for bbq stingray. Wa now I'm salivating as I think about it.

But I haven't really put his sambal to good use since I ended my maternity leave. Coming back fr work everyday, I just wish to cook dishes that doesn't require me lots of cleaning up after cooking. So my menu has been made up of largely steamed or baked food. And finally I was craving for some sambal fried rice that day, so his sambal has the chance to present itself on the dinner table! :p

This sambal that I'm using is very very spicy but shiok, and no seasoning has been added to it. So I added some sugar and salt while frying this dish. My mum has always taught me that whenever you cook sambal, it is important to add some sugar to it to add some "层次" (hmm I'm not sure whether it should be translated as depth) to the taste. If not, the taste will be plain spicy and not as exciting.

As this is also cooked on a weekday, I prepared some Hong Kong kailan to be added to it as well, to make it a balanced one dish meal :)

Marinate:
1tbsp light soy sauce
1 tsp sesame oil
1 tsp Hua Tiao wine
White pepper

Ingredients:
200g chicken fillet, cut into cubes
8-10 prawns, shells and veins removed
Hong Kong kailan, the waxy skin on the stalks removed, washed and cut into cubes
1 tbsp oil
4-5 cloves of garlic, minced
1 medium size onion, chopped
3 tbsp sambal
2 tsp white sugar
1 cup cooked rice, preferably kept overnight in the fridge

Method:
1) Add all the ingredients under Marinate to the chicken fillet cubes and leave to marinate for abt 15min.

2) Heat up the oil in the wok. Stir fry the minced garlic until fragrant. Add in the chopped onion and stir fry until fragrant too.

3) Add in sambal to stir fry until it is fragrant. Add sugar and mix well.

4) Pour rice in and mix well with the sambal mixture. Using a pressing motion and ensuring there's no lumps of rice, and the rice grains are well coated with sambal.

5) Add in the marinated chicken fillet cubes and stir fry on medium high heat until the chicken fillet cubes are almost cooked through.

6) Add in prawns and kailan and stir fry until prawns are cooked through. Season with salt and pepper to taste.