How To Cook Chicken Congee? Here's Guide on Ingredients & Cooking Process

Check here the Steps on How To Cook Chicken Congee & the Ingredients

HOW TO COOK CHICKEN CONGEE – Here are the ingredients and the cooking process in making a delicious Chicken Congee.

Food is the stress reliever of countless individuals. Truth be told that Filipinos are among the people across the globe that are really big eaters. There are countless dishes that many Filipinos love and one of them is the Chicken Congee.

The Chicken Congee is a chicken porridge made of rice and chicken. You might be looking for something light on the stomach after checking out the Bistek recipe, the Bulalo recipe, and other viand recipes and cooking them.

Are you excited to cook this delicious chicken porridge? Below, you can check the important things you need to know in coming up with this delicious food.

Before starting the with the cooking process, first, prepare the ingredients. The list of ingredients is the very first important part of the recipe. Here are the ingredients that you need to prepare before proceeding with the steps on how to cook Chicken Congee:

1.5 lb. skinless chicken thigh
1.88 cups long grain rice
1.5 Knorr chicken cube
1.13 cups chopped scallions
3 teaspoons Sesame oil
4.5 thumbs ginger in thin strips
10.5 to 15 cups water
3 tablespoons toasted garlic, optional
salt and ground black pepper to taste

Now that the ingredients are ready, you can start with the process on how to cook Chicken Congee. Here are the steps that you may follow:

Step 1

Add water in a cooking pot and heat it. Add chicken, ginger, and half of the chopped scallions in the pot and let it boil.

Step 2

Add Chicken Knorr Cube. Stir it well until the chicken cube has dissolved. Cover the pot and continue cooking it over medium heat for 15 minutes.

Step 3

Take the chicken from the pot and let it cool down so you can shred the chicken meat using your hands or two (2) forks. Make sure to discard the bones.

Step 4

Add rice into the cooking pot and then cover it to cook it for around half an hour. Afterwards, add the shredded chicken into the pot and continue cooking it for 30 minutes more until your desired consistency for the porridge is achieved.