Rice Cooker Chicken Mushroom Rice

Ingredients:
2.5 cups rice
A small knob of ginger
Few cloves of garlic
8 Chinese dried mushrooms
300 to 400g chicken (chopped into pieces)
1 tbsp dark soya sauce
1 tbsp light soya sauce
1 tsp sesame oil
1 tbsp cooking oil
Dash of pepper & salt
2.5 cups water (I kept the water from the soaked mushrooms. Can use chicken stock too.)

Methods:
1. Soak the dried mushroom till soft and slice it thinly.
2. Marinate the chicken with dark soya sauce, light soya sauce, sesame oil, salt and pepper. Best to marinate at least 1 hour.
3. Cut the ginger into thin strips.
4. Smash the garlic and chop them finely.
5. Heat the pan with 2 tbsp oil, then add the garlic and ginger to stir fry.
6. Add the mushroom and the marinated chicken into the pan and continue to stir fry.
7. Add the washed rice to the pan, fry to mix all ingredients well.
8. Pour the rice mixture to rice cooker, add the water needed, and press START on rice cooker. (I chose the normal white rice cycle.)
9. When it is done, add the chopped scallion.

Pumpkin Rice 干贝金瓜饭

Ingredients:
A few cloves of garlic - smashed
1  tbsp dried shrimps (hae bee) - soak at least 30 mins
3 to 5 dried scallops  - wash & soak at least 1 hr
5 to 8 dried shitake mushroom - wash & soak till soft, then slice it thinly
1/4 pumpkin - cube it
A handful of chicken meat or pork slices - marinated
1.5 cups washed rice
(Keep the soaked water from the dried scallops & dried shitake mushrooms)

Method:
1. Heat the pan with 3 tbsp of oil and stir fry the dried shrimps & garlic.
2. Add the dried scallops, mushrooms, pumpkins, & meat and stir fry for 3 - 5 mins.
3. Add the rice and stir fry for another min. Add 1 tbsp light soya sauce, 1/2 tbsp sesame oil, a pinch of salt & pepper, and mix well. (If u like it more salty, add 2 tbsp light soya sauce.)
4. Add sufficient water (including the soaked water) to cook 1.5 cups rice.
5. Pour the entire content into your rice cooker, and press Start/Cook. (I used normal white rice cooking process.)