Chicken Congee

I came across this Chicken Congee recipe absolutely by chance while going through YouTube randomly.

Then I looked up some more authentic recipes for Congee. Chicken Congee is a chinese recipe and the traditional method requires thousand year egg. I have always wondered how a thousand year egg would taste like. 

I decided to go with the easier recipe by Get Curried which can be achieved at home. However, I was putting it off for sometime as Arun was not sure of it. 

Finally I decided to make it. For one it is easier to make and also requires very little ingredient yet it tastes like ultimate comfort in a bowl. It is so simple yet bursting with flavour. 

Ingredients:

• 1 cup rice ( for two people)
• 3 and a half cup water
• A bunch of spring onions - the green part only
• 1 inch ginger finely chopped
• 1 cup of sliced button mushroom
• 2 leg pieces of chicken
• Salt and pepper

For Garnishing

• Fried onions
• Chilli Garlic oil

Method:

1. Wash 1 cup rice thoroughly and soak them in water for 1 hour.
2. After and hour add the Rice to a pressure cooker and add snipped spring onion, finely chopped ginger, sliced mushrooms, salt and pepper and the water.
3. Mix everything with a spoon and place the chicken leg pieces on top, close the lid and cook for 4 whistles.
4. Open the lid after the pressure has released naturally.
5. take out the chicken pieces with a tong. Place it on a plate and let it cool down. Then shred the chicken with your hand and add it back to the rice in the pressure cooker. Keep some of the shredded chicken for garnishing.
6. The rice is supposed to be quite soupy. Mix the rice with a ladle to break the grain.
7. To serve take some out on a bowl. Garnish with fried onions, shredded chicken, spring onions and the most awesome chilli garlic oil. Click here for the recipe because you don't want to miss this out. Honestly it is the chilli garlic oil which makes all the difference. 

This bowl is the ultimate  comfort food you can think of. A warm bowl of soothing flavour. You can make a vegetarian version without the chicken and let me know how that turns out because I am clearly never going to make it.