Vietnamese-Style Sticky Rice with Chicken | Marion's Kitchen

Name: Vietnamese-Style Sticky Rice with Chicken | Marion's Kitchen
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 55 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 3 cups (600g / 1 lb 5 oz) sticky (glutinous) rice; 1/3 cup dried shrimp; 2 tbsp vegetable oil; 4 garlic cloves, finely chopped; 250g (9 oz) lap cheong Chinese sausage, thinly sliced on a slight diagonal; 5 Asian red shallots, thinly sliced; 600g (1 lb 5 oz) chicken thigh fillets, cut into bitesize pieces; 1½ tbsp fish sauce; 1½ tbsp soy sauce; 2 tsp caster (superfine) sugar; 2-3 spring onions (scallions), trimmed, finely sliced on the diagonal, to serve; roasted unsalted peanuts or cashews, roughly chopped, to serve; Dipping sauce:; ¼ cup fish sauce; 2½ tbsp rice vinegar; 1½ tbsp caster (superfine) sugar; 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped; 2 tbsp lime juice; 1 red birdseye chilli, finely sliced