Pei dan porridge with chicken
Sat, 10 May 2008, 10:42 pm by jadeiteCooked chicken porridge for Puppy today after much persuasion from Jo and Eddie :D who both could not believe I was actually contemplating tapao-ing porridge instead of making some sweet love porridge and hand-delivering (and spoon-feeding) to him. My weak excuse was that he’s already just recovering from a bout of viral fever from eating contaminated food and I didn’t want to inadvertently prolong his misery -_-
Truth to tell I’d also never cooked porridge before and didn’t want to mess it up :D
Anyhow, I decided I might as well try. Boiled the rice in light chicken stock for about two hours, constantly adding more stock and water each time the rice boiled down (used too small a pot). Marinated half a chicken thigh in sesame oil, soy sauce, salt, sugar and pepper for an hour; then cooked it in a pan (steaming too mafan and anyway, the flavor of the chicken was what made the porridge tasty in the end). Shredded the chicken and added that to the porridge pot along with chopped scallions and continued boiling it down. Boiled a century egg; chopped that into pieces and put it in a bowl along with some shredded ginger.
When Puppy arrived, we ladled the porridge (by now a bit sticky because I’d kept it over a low flame to keep it warm) into the bowl over the egg and ginger and mixed it up. Added a bit of hot water to smoothen out the porridge and voila! Puppy says it was pretty good, and Joel liked it too :) So there you go. First effort at making porridge, or congee, or zhok, whatever you call it.
Next time I shall try minced pork and salted egg porridge. I can’t really tell you if my porridge was nice because I don’t like porridge myself. It’s sick-people food to me. My own comfort food is elbow macaroni in chicken soup, which Mommy makes to perfection with tender little chicken cubes, celery, potato, onion and carrots. :)
i’m not a porridge fan, but i want to try!!!
You gotta fall sick first, hahah!
im sick! do i get porridge too? *whimpers*
Ooo why are you sick!! Will we see you tomorrow in school anyway?? *patpat* miss you all so much! hurhur!
okay, now i’m really really sick. boss just passed her mega flu throat cough virus to me :(
Um um. Puppy also still sick with mega painful ulcers in his throat and rashes from viral fever so er…get in line, people! :D
Aiyo *sayang all the sick people*