Claypot chicken rice

Ingredients

• 2 cups of rice, washed and drained
• 3 cups of water or chicken stock , add a cube of chicken bouillon to the water if you don't have chicken stock
• 2 chicken thighs or half a chicken cut into bite size pieces
• 6-7 dried shiitake mushroom, soaked and cut into slices or half (retain the water used to soak the mushrooms)
• 1 Chinese sausage, sliced
• 2 tablespoons of oyster sauce
• 1 tablespoon of dark soya sauce
• Fried shallots
• Chopped spring onions and cilantro for garnishing
• 1 2 tablespoons of oil, peanut oil preferably

Marinade:

• 2 tablespoons of dark soy sauce
• 3 tablespoons of oyster sauce
• 2 tablespoons of soy sauce
• 1 tablespoon of sesame seed oil omit this if you don?t like sesame seed oil
• 1 cm ginger, grated
• 2 cloves of garlic, minced
• 1 teaspoon of sugar
• 1 tablespoon of cornflour
• 1/2 teaspoon of ground white pepper