Easiest Way to Cook Appetizing Malaysian Rice and Chicken Congee

Malaysian Rice and Chicken Congee. Congee or rice porridge is a common 'sick people' or baby food. It's tasty and easy to digest. When I was young, my go-to sick food was chicken porridge or KFC mashed potatoes.

Congee is a comforting dish full of nutrients, delicious and easy to make. It is basically rice that you cook with a lot of water and boiled till mushy then chicken stock and vegetables are added into the congee. Slow-cooker ginger chicken rice porridge - the perfect comfort food. You can cook Malaysian Rice and Chicken Congee using 16 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Malaysian Rice and Chicken Congee

1. You need 1 cup of rice.
2. You need 5 cups of water.
3. It's 3 cm of ginger, julienned.
4. You need 2 of carrots, diced.
5. It's 200 grams of chicken breast.
6. It's 1 of chicken stock cube.
7. Prepare of Salt and pepper.
8. Prepare of Condiments.
9. Prepare of Chopped spring onions.
10. You need of Pickled radish.
11. It's of Crispy garlic.
12. You need of Crispy shallots.
13. Prepare of Salted eggs.
14. It's of Crispy Anchovies.
15. You need of Salty Soya Sauce.
16. It's Dash of sesame oil.

If there is one complete meal that is perfect for slow cooking, it is congee, or rice porridge. I used brown rice, but it can be made just as easily with white rice. There is a bit more chew to it with brown rice, and it takes a little bit longer. If you want to make quick congee, try this Instant Pot Congee Recipe.

Malaysian Rice and Chicken Congee instructions

1. Wash the rice few times and transfer into a pot. Add in water. Bring the pot to a boil then immediately turn down the heat. Allow the pot to simmer, covered, for until the rice has absorbed most of the liquid and looks soft and mushy. (I used my instant pot and cooked them on porridge setting.).
2. While waiting for the rice to cook, bring to boil the chicken breast with 3 cups of water and one chicken stock. Once cooked, remove them and add the chicken stock into the rice pot. Continue cooking the rice. After a total cookjng time of one hour the rice will be very soft. Add in the ginger, salt and pepper. Let simmer for another ten minutes...
3. When the chicken are cool enough shred them to strips. Now you can add the shredded chicken back into the congee or put it in your condiments bowl as in the photo....
4. Prepare the rest of the condiments. Fry the shallots, garlic and anchovies till crispy. Boil the salted egg and chop the spring onions. Spoon the congee into individual bowls and garnish with your condiments of choice.. add in chopped bird eye chillies if desired. Enjoy.

Chicken and Ginger Congee is easy to make What is Chicken Rice Congee. Congee is a type of rice gruel or porridge popular in Asian cuisine. It's usually made of meat, seafood, and other regional ingredients for added flavor. While it's served primarily for breakfast, rice congee can also be enjoyed any time of the day as a side dish or meal on its own. Congee or rice porridge is a Chinese comfort food and can be taken any time of the day.