Chicken Congee
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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Join the waitlist Not nowIngredients
Main ingredient
- 12 oz chicken
Fresh & other
- 1 ½ tsp ginger cordial
- 1 ½ tsp ginger
- 1 ½ tbsp green onions Shopping tip: Green onions (scallions).
- ¾ cup rice Shopping tip: Jasmine rice, or any long-grain white rice.
- 12 cups water
- 3 oz cilantro
Spices & seasonings (2): salt, pepper
- pinch salt
- pinch pepper
How to make it
Steps in our own plain words.
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STEP 1 - MARINATING THE CHICKEN.
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Add chicken, salt, white pepper, ginger juice in a bowl.
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Mix it together well.
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Set the chicken aside.
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STEP 2 - RINSE THE WHITE RICE.
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Rinse your rice in metal bowl or pot a couple times.
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Drain the water.
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STEP 2 - BOILING THE WHITE RICE.
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Add 12 cups of water.
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Set the stove on high heat till it is boiling.
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Wait until rice porridge starts to boil.
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Set the stove on low heat.
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Stir it when every 8-10 min for around 20-25 minutes.
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After 25 min, this is optional but you can add little bit more water.
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Do it to make rice porridge.
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Do it to make it less thick or to preference.
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Add your marinated chicken to the rice porridge.
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Leave your stove on low heat for another 10 min.
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After an more 10 min add your green onions, sliced ginger, pinch of salt, about 2 of white pepper.
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Stir for 10 seconds.
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Serve the rice porridge in a bowl.
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Optional: add Coriander over the top of the rice porridge.
On the side: Cucumber salad
A side we added to round out the meal. It is not part of the original recipe.
How to make it (10 min)
- Thinly slice the cucumbers.
- Toss with the rice vinegar and a pinch of salt. Let it sit a few minutes.
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Join the waitlistRecipe from TheMealDB, adapted from the original. Steps rewritten in our own words. Times are estimates.