Ingredients:

1 kilo dressed chicken
5 cups coconut milk
4 cups glutinous rice
3 cloves garlic, crushed
1/4 cup cooking oil
1 medium-sized onion, sliced
5 tablespoons yellow ginger root juice (turmeric)
1/4 cup patis or fish sauce
1 medium-sized green pepper, peeled and cut into cubes
2 pcs hard-boiled eggs, sliced
salt to taste
pepper
banana leaf wilted over burner (remove midrib)

How to cook Bringhi:

• Split chicken into desired serving pieces (8-12) at the joints. Clean and wash thoroughly and drain. Set aside.
• Wash glutinous (malagkit) rice 3 times. Drain well, set aside. Saute garlic, onions, and chicken in a saucepan over high heat.
• Cook until chicken is slightly browned. Add patis and ginger root juice. Add clean rice and cook for about 10 minutes.
• Prepare green peppers. Set aside. Peel yellow ginger, crush with mortar and pestle, squeeze, strain, and extract yellow juices.
• Add coconut milk to chicken mixture gradually. Stir. Cover. Cook until rice is almost done, adjust ing the flame so as not to scorch the pan.
• Prepare another heavy duty container. Line the bottom with wilted banana leaf, transfer chicken-rice mixture carefully to the layer of banana leaves. Cover with another layer of banana leaves and steam over low flame until rice is done.