Recipe: Tasty Let's bond over cucumber salad and egg congee

Let's bond over cucumber salad and egg congee. This Chinese jook or congee dish is easy to prepare but oh-so comforting to eat! Chicken thighs are cooked with green onions, ginger, garlic, and jalapenos, then simmered with rice until porridge-like. Serve hot with thinly sliced cabbage, snow peas, bean sprouts, soy sauce, and sesame oil.

No, but there is an added step in the preparation. Soak the brown rice prior to cooking. Place the (rinsed and drained) brown rice in a bowl, added enough water to cover then let the grains soak (in the fridge) for several hours. You can cook Let's bond over cucumber salad and egg congee using 8 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Let's bond over cucumber salad and egg congee

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After that, cook it as though it were white rice. Toss or stir to coat the cucumber evenly with the sugar. You can use any neutral flavored oil like vegetable, grapeseed, almond, or avocado oil. Cover the pot halfway to keep the water boiling without spilling.

Let's bond over cucumber salad and egg congee step by step

1. For the congee, we are going to use one small bowl of rice. Rinse the rice..
2. Put the rice in with 5 (same) bowls of cold water. You can use normal pot on the stove, but I'm using Instant Pot this time so I can make cucumber salad while waiting for the congee to cook..
3. Let it pressure cook for 40-50 minutes. The cooking of Instant Pot did not meet my liking, so I later switched to stove top and continued cooking a little more..
4. Cucumber salad: While waiting for the congee to cook in the instant pot, we prepare the cucumber salad. First, chop them in little pieces as such..
5. Using your knife, mash these pieces to get a lot of pickling sauce to seep into the little cracks!.
6. Put them in a bowl and seasoning ingredients including minced garlic, fish sauce, sugar, vinegar, salt and chili flakes. The ratio of fish sauce: sugar: vinegar I used is 2:3:3, but adjust it to your liking!.
7. Mix and let chill in the fridge before going to check how your congee is doing..
8. Back to the congee, once it has reached the consistency you like, season your congee with fish sauce, salt and sugar. Crack an egg, cover with a lid and let it cook for 5 minutes on low heat so the congee doesn't burn..
9. Put in a bowl, crack some pepper and enjoy it with your new friends!! <3.

Stir the congee a few times during cooking. Cut the shrimp down the center of the back into two thin pieces. Bring the heat back up to high and cut the pork spare ribs into smaller chunks. Rub the chicken with salt on the inside and out, then rinse with water. Bring the water to a boil and add the quartered onion, smashed red onion and ginger, salt and chicken bouillon powder.