Recipe: Delicious Basic Congee (Chinese Porridge)
Basic Congee (Chinese Porridge) . Congee is Chinese rice porridge, which can be served plain, sweet, or savory. Here are three ways to cook this classic dish. Congee is often served with Chinese crullers (youtiao, 油條), which are fried dough, that you dip into the congee. It gets umami flavor from dried shrimp, dried scallops, and shiitake mushrooms. The word congee derives from Tamil, and different Asian cultures have their own version of this delectable, often savory, rice porridge. Some people like a thin porridge. You can have Basic Congee (Chinese Porridge) using 19 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you achieve it. Ingredients of Basic Congee (Chinese Porridge) You need of Congee. It's of Step 1 Simple Chicken Broth. Prepare 1 of Chicken. You need 1 tbsp of Chicken Granules/powder. It's 1 of big yellow onion - chopped big. Prepare 6 of garlic - crushed. You need 8 of big slices of garlic. ...