Chicken Congee
Chinese chicken congee: rice cooked down into a porridge.
Ingredients
- Salt
- Black pepper
- Fresh coriander 2 oz
- Fresh ginger 1 tsp
- Spring onions 1 tbsp
- Whole chicken 8 oz
- Basmati rice 0.5 cup
- Ginger cordial 1 tsp
Method
- - MARINATING THE CHICKEN.
- In a bowl, add chicken, salt, white pepper, ginger juice and then mix it together well.
- Set the chicken aside.
- - RINSE THE WHITE RICE. Rinse the rice in a metal bowl or pot a couple times and then drain the water.
- - BOILING THE WHITE RICE.
- Next add 8 cups of water and then set the stove on high heat until it is boiling.
- Once rice porridge starts to boil, set the stove on low heat and then stir it once every 8-10 minutes for around 20-25 minutes.
- After 25 minutes, this is optional but you can add a little bit more water to make rice porridge to make it less thick or to your preference.
- Next add the marinated chicken to the rice porridge and leave the stove on low heat for another 10 minutes.
- After an additional 10 minutes add the green onions, sliced ginger, 1 pinch of salt, 1 pinch of white pepper and stir for 10 seconds.
- Serve the rice porridge in a bowl.
- Optional: add Coriander on top of the rice porridge.