This is the latest in my series on quick, easy, and tasty meals:
This is being placed here for my own possible records and for others to use if so desired. This is based on recipes online and an interpretation of restaurants that I occasionally frequent. The point of these recipes is to achieve the best taste, in the quickest possible time, at the cheapest possible price. That's why the ingredients are somewhat non-traditional at times. Here's the other thing, it's obvious that they can be altered quickly and easily to suit other core ingredients. Don't be afraid to experiment.
- rice
- water or soup powder/stock (any flavour like Wonton Soup or Chicken Soup will do as long as it makes culinary sense? Note, that using water straight out will make for a bland/flat tasting congee if the meat isn't already flavoured)
- soy sauce
- fish sauce
- dried shrimp
- brown vinegar or rice wine vinegar
- ginger
- beef/chicken/pork
- spring onion (optional)
- salt (optional)
- pepper (optional)
- sesame oil (optional)
- vegetables (optional)
Throw rice, water, ginger, dried shrimp, fish sauce, vinegar, soy sauce, soup stock/powder (and other optional ingredients) into a saucepan and then cook until rice softens to a porridge like consistency (try eating this meal at a restaurant first if you want to know what it should taste like. You are of course, free to experiment with the texture as well).
After this is done, add meat to saucepan (you can even use left over meat such as roast chicken or Bolognese meat but most of the time Asian flavours will work better, http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2017/10/fast-asian-style-meatprotein-recipes.html If the mix flavour doesn't work well, just try adding more fish sauce or other Asian sauces until things make more sense) and vegetables (add them in sequence if you want to maintain texture) at the end. Garnish with pepper and chopped spring onion.
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