Chicken Basil Fried Rice and Slow Cooked Chicken.

It's not yet Christmas but I wanted to prepare something special. So here is this morning's Best of Me breakfast.

First I cooked an omelette with Chicken bits and lots of Basil leaves. I actually bought a bough of Basil to plant in my balcony garden and I really do not have any recipe in mind before they will wilt so this morning, out of the ordinary, added Basil to my omelette. But wait, I found out we have day old rice so instead of omelette, I finally decided to break it and mix with my day old rice. And voila! Chicken Basil Fried Rice.. now, where did I get the chicken bits?

So last night I decided to slow cook chicken in its own juices plus the spices. I simply placed peppercorns, bay leaf, cloves, star anise, crushed garlic, onion and ginger at the bottom of a peppered and Salted whole chicken and left it to cook overnight. No other liquid except the juices and fat rendered from the chicken. The chicken was so tender that when I flipped it, a lot of bits fell so I gathered them and cooked them with my supposedly omelette which is now what it is.. that explains missing wings.. hahaha

So yeah. This is what we're having for breakfast today. 😋 

Happy eating...