Recipe of Homemade Hearty Pumpkin Congee

Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, hearty pumpkin congee. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Hearty Pumpkin Congee is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Hearty Pumpkin Congee is something which I have loved my whole life.

Great recipe for Hearty Pumpkin Congee. Traditional Chinese congee is always one of my favorite dishes. Addition of pumpkin makes this dish even more suiting for when the weather is turning cold. Delicious and so colorful for these cloudy fall days.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook hearty pumpkin congee using 15 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Hearty Pumpkin Congee:

1. Get 3/4 cup rice
2. Prepare 7 cup water
3. Prepare 2 chicken thighs
4. Prepare 200 g pork for different texture
5. Make ready 1/2 small size pumpkin
6. Make ready 5-6 baby corn
7. Make ready 4-6 button portobellos
8. Make ready 3 shitake mushrooms
9. Get White pepper
10. Get Salt
11. Prepare Pickled mustard, 榨菜
12. Take Soy sauce
13. Prepare Chicken oil or cooked oil
14. Prepare Sesame oil
15. Take Corn starch

Furthermore, the pumpkin puree also gives the porridge a beautiful orange hue. Today I decided to cook meatless but veggie-loaded porridge for my darling boy's lunch. Hearty meal that is packed with so many vitamins and. Congee, known as "okayu" in Japan and "juk" in Korea, is a warm, savory rice porridge with a gruel-like texture that starts with a simple base of rice, water, and salt, and the toppings.

Steps to make Hearty Pumpkin Congee:

1. Wash and freeze rice. Yes, freezer to accelerate cooking afterwards. Can even make congee for dinner after a long day at work.
2. Soak shitake mushrooms.
3. Add 7 cups of water, and rice together. 1 teaspoon of salt. Bring to a boil.
4. Turn heat down to rolling boil when covered (small opening to prevent boil over if tight lid). Boil for 40 minutes, stir occasionally, more so towards the end.
5. Cut chicken thighs into long narrow strips, 3mm wide x thickness of the thigh. Marinate with soy sauce, white pepper and touch of sesame oil.
6. Cut pork into 2x2mm strips, or mince. Marinate with salt, soy sauce, corn starch, touch of cooking oil.
7. Cut pumpkin into 1/2 inch cubes. (Smaller if prefer to have more dissolved) Add to congee after 20 minute boil.
8. Cut baby corn length-wise into 8ths, then in half.
9. Cut shitake mushrooms, pickled mustard, and button portobellos mushrooms into thin strips.
10. After boiling the congee for 40 minutes (20 with the pumpkin), or until desired consistency. Add baby corn, shitake, portobellos, and pickled mustard.
11. Turn up the heat to a medium-high for a strong boil. Add meats and quickly separate for even cooking. The meats will stop the boiling but will reboil quickly from the high heat. Once reboil turn heat off and cover for 3 minutes.
12. Dress with chicken oil or cooked oil. Salt and white pepper to taste. Serve hot!

Hearty meal that is packed with so many vitamins and. Congee, known as "okayu" in Japan and "juk" in Korea, is a warm, savory rice porridge with a gruel-like texture that starts with a simple base of rice, water, and salt, and the toppings. This basic congee recipe is a great starter for those of you who want to make the classic Chinese rice porridge at home. It is rich with umami flavor from dried shrimp, dried scallops, and shiitake mushrooms. The congee is a great meal for breakfast, lunch, or dinner!

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