Hello Hiveans! Let's cook something with Leeks the theme of this week's Qurator's HIVE Top Chef. So for this week's challenge, I was thinking of cooking comfort food for the family. It has been raining for a few days and the weather has been quite cold lately. Hahaha, you may be thinking about how can hot Malaysian weather feel cold, but for a Malaysian like me, it is kind of cold. A 25 degree celsius in raining season is very cold for me. I can sleep without a fan and will be shivering when I touch the water from the tap. So I have decided that for this type of weather, a smoking hot porridge may just be the best thing. Let's start cooking our rice porridge.
Rice Porridge with Carrot Garnished with Shredded Chicken, Fried Anchovies, Onions and Red Chilies
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INGREDIENTS FOR PORRIDGE
2 pieces boneless skinless chicken breast – cooked and shredded
1 1/2 cup rice – Wash and rinse
2 chicken stock cubes
1-inch ginger, crushed
2 leeks - sliced
1 carrot – cut into cubes
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon white pepper
METHODS TO PREPARE PORRIDGE AND SHREDDED CHICKEN
- Prepare soup ingredients. Wash and cut chicken, each into 2 pieces, crush ginger, 2 chicken stock cubes and slice 2 stalk leeks.
- Place Chicken Breast in a pot. Add leeks, crushed ginger and 2 chicken stock cubes.
- Add water, the water must entirely cover the chicken. This technique is very important to make sure you will have that tender soft chicken.
- Add 1 teaspoon salt and 1 teaspoon white pepper. Boil for 30 minutes or until the chicken is cooked to perfection.
- When the chicken is cooked to perfection. Remove the chicken from the soup. Leave the soup for cooking the porridge.
- Wash and rinse the rice and add the rice into the soup and boil on medium-low fire. Place the lid tilting on the pot, to allow steam to escape. Check your porridge continuously and add 1 cup water gradually every 15 minutes until your porridge is cooked to perfection. Don't just leave it there or you will have a burned porridge :D.
- After 30 minutes, add the carrot and continue boiling for 30 minutes more. Stir occasionally until the rice turns into a creamy texture of porridge.
- While waiting for the porridge to cook, let’s prepare the garnishing. For methods on how to prepare the garnishing, please scroll below.
1. Prepare soup ingredients. Wash and cut chicken, each into 2 pieces, crush ginger, 2 chicken stock cubes and slice 2 stalk leeks.
2. Place Chicken Breast in a pot. Add leeks, crushed ginger and 2 chicken stock cubes.
3. Add water, the water must entirely cover the chicken. This technique is very important to make sure you will have that tender soft chicken.
4. Add 1 teaspoon salt and 1 teaspoon white pepper. Boil for 30 minutes or until the chicken is cooked to perfection.
5. When the chicken is cooked to perfection. Remove the chicken from the soup. Leave the soup for cooking the porridge.
6. Wash and rinse the rice and add the rice into the soup and boil on medium-low fire. Place the lid tilting on the pot, to allow steam to escape.
7. After 30 minutes, add the carrot and continue boiling for 30 minutes more. Stir occasionally until the rice turns into a creamy texture of porridge.
8. While waiting for the porridge to cook, let’s prepare the garnishing.
GARNISHING INGREDIENTS
- Shredded Chicken from the soup
- 1 tablespoon sesame oil
- Fried ingredients
• 1 handful anchovies
• 1 onion - slice
• 5 bird’s eye chilies - slice
• 3 red chilies - slice
• 1 teaspoon sesame oil - Slice Leeks and Red Chilies.
Methods for garnishing
1. Fry Anchovies until half done and then add Onions, Red Chillies and Bird's eye chilies. Fry until they turned golden brown.
2. Add 1 tablespoon Sesame Oil to the porridge after the porridge is done.
3. Shred the chicken, you must remember to shred it while the chicken is still warm because it will be hard to shred after it gets cold.
4. Slice Leeks and Red Chilies.
Rice porridge and garnishing ingredients are ready.
Wala! Rice Porridge with Carrot Garnished with Shredded Chicken, Fried Anchovies, Onions and Red Chilies.
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WOW....you really do make some very yummy healthy dishes would love to try some of your dishes 😇
Hahaha Max, if you are in Malaysia, would love to cook for you and your family. Please visit this post I wrote about my charity work https://hive.blog/hive-102880/@ainie.kashif/spreading-kindness-this-christmas-let-your-kindness-be-the-rain-that-cares-not-whom-it-falls-upon, thanks Max, cheers, 99
Thanks Ainie it would been a pleasure having dinner with you , you just never know i will keep it in mind if ever out that way 😇
Cheers 99 i will take a look at that post for sure 👍
I have never heard of rice porridge. I must try it. You have used some of my favorite ingredients especially the leeks and chilies. Yumm!!!!
Take care dear friend and enjoy your sunny warm beautiful weather for me please haha.
Hello my dear friend @carolynstahl! How are you? I hope you are having a great day. I am happy you like the recipe and I know your creativeness that you can easily create your vegan version out of that. Yes, I will enjoy my warm sunny weather here for you and I always think I would like to try your freezing cold weather which I know my body will maybe get culture shock and then forget about any sightseeing, I will only see my bedroom and inside of the hotel hahaha, take care my friend, cheers, ainie
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