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

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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 recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have 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. Get 3 piece vegetarian bouillon cubes
  2. Get 1 cup White uncooked rice
  3. Make ready 1 cup diced of each vegetables: carrot, celery, potato, broccoli, oyster mushrooms. (any vegetables will do)
  4. Make ready 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. Make ready 1 packages Frozen chay quay or Chinese bread sticks
  9. Get 1 each lime - wedges

Place rice and glutinous rice in a large pot with water and stock. Bring to boil then lower heat, cover and simmer, stirring occasionally. Cook until rice is very soft and mixture is thick. Heat a small frying pan and toss the rice in.

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.

Cook until rice is very soft and mixture is thick. Heat a small frying pan and toss the rice in. 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.

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