Chicken Congee

Name: Chicken Congee
Prep time: 42 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 1 h 27 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 8 oz chicken; pinch salt; pinch pepper; 1 tsp ginger cordial; 1 tsp ginger; 1 tbsp green onions; ½ cup rice; 8 cups water; 2 oz cilantro

A Chinese dinner. Ready in about 1 hour 27 minutes. Difficulty: medium.

42 minPrep (about)
45 minCook (about)
1 hr 27 minTotal time
4Servings
MediumDifficulty

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Ingredients

How many people?

− 3 people +

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Main ingredient

6 oz chicken

Fresh & other

¾ tsp ginger cordial
¾ tsp ginger
2 ¼ tsp green onions Shopping tip: Green onions (scallions).
⅓ cup rice Shopping tip: Jasmine rice, or any long-grain white rice.
6 cups water
1 ½ oz cilantro

Spices & seasonings (2): salt, pepper

pinch salt
pinch pepper

How to make it

Steps in our own plain words.

STEP 1 - MARINATING THE CHICKEN.
Add chicken, salt, white pepper, ginger juice in a bowl.
Mix it together well.
Set the chicken aside.
STEP 2 - RINSE THE WHITE RICE.
Rinse your rice in metal bowl or pot a couple times.
Drain the water.
STEP 2 - BOILING THE WHITE RICE.
Add 6 cups of water.
Set the stove on high heat till it is boiling.
Wait until rice porridge starts to boil.
Set the stove on low heat.
Stir it when every 8-10 min for around 20-25 minutes.
After 25 min, this is optional but you can add little bit more water.
Do it to make rice porridge.
Do it to make it less thick or to preference.
Add your marinated chicken to the rice porridge.
Leave your stove on low heat for another 10 min.
After an more 10 min add your green onions, sliced ginger, pinch of salt, about 1 of white pepper.
Stir for 10 seconds.
Serve the rice porridge in a bowl.
Optional: add Coriander over the top of the rice porridge.