Hot rice soup (Chao)
Hot rice soup (Chao)

Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, hot rice soup (chao). It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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Hot rice soup (Chao). "Chao Ga" or rice porridge (or Congee) with chicken meat is a common street food in Vietnam and you will surprise that it really tastes quite well even in the hot tropical temperature like in the Vietnamese deep south province like Soc Trang. Dice hardy vegetables first, such as carrots, potato, celery, etc. And add to boiling pot as you finished each one. Good way to clean out your fridge.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook hot rice soup (chao) using 9 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Hot rice soup (Chao):
  1. Take 3 piece vegetarian bouillon cubes
  2. Take 1 cup White uncooked rice
  3. Take 1 cup diced of each vegetables: carrot, celery, potato, broccoli, oyster mushrooms. (any vegetables will do)
  4. Take 1 cup each of diced tofu, konyaku, vegetarian fish
  5. Take 1 packages dry bean curd - broken into smaller pieces
  6. Make ready 1 piece ginger - chopped finely (ginger piece the size of your thumb)
  7. Prepare 1 bunch cilantro
  8. Prepare 1 packages Frozen chay quay or Chinese bread sticks
  9. Make ready 1 each lime - wedges

While the rice is toasting, beat/chop the pork (or chicken) with a knife. Use the knife like a meat tenderizer. Don't cut the meat all the way through but keep beating the meat with the knife until the pork start to fall apart like ground meat. A nice hot bowl of Vietnamese thick rice porridge soup (Chao), also known as congee or gruel.

Steps to make Hot rice soup (Chao):
  1. Fill large pot 2/3 full of water, add rice and vegetable bouillon, put on stove on high heat.
  2. Dice hardy vegetables first, such as carrots, potato, celery, etc. And add to boiling pot as you finished each one. Good way to clean out your fridge. All vegetables are optional, whatever you have in the fridge. Use small chopper machine to finely chop ginger fast.
  3. Add tofu, dry bean curd, vegetarian fish, konyaku (zero calories)
  4. Fill bowl with water and use strainer to remove suds in boiling pot, and clean the strainer from water in bowl, but keep the good soup in the pot. When bowl is full of suds, dump suds out in sink and get new water to continue removing suds as needed. The pot should still be boiling, about 30 to 40 min during the time you take to dice everything up, then turn off stove and it's ready to serve steaming hot.
  5. Serve soup topped with ground pepper, chopped cilantro leaves, squeeze of lime, toast chinese breadstick in the oven and cut into bite size pieces. (optional chopped peanut and bean sprouts.) I finely cut the cilantro stems and throw them in the pot. No need to waste them.

Don't cut the meat all the way through but keep beating the meat with the knife until the pork start to fall apart like ground meat. A nice hot bowl of Vietnamese thick rice porridge soup (Chao), also known as congee or gruel. The soft texture makes it a favorite among elders, babies and those who are sick. With less than a cup of rice, you can make a pot of chao to feed the whole family. Starch: Wild rice, macaroni, mashed potatoes.

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