Description
This one’s for you. Filipinos’ all-time favorite food.
Ingredients
- 5 cups water
- 2 cups uncooked white rice
- 3 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 1 whole head garlic, minced
- 1 tablespoon sliced ginger
- 2 tablespoons sliced onion
- 2 skinless, boneless chicken breasts, cut into cubes
- 1 tablespoon fish sauce, or to taste
- ground black pepper to taste
- 1 teaspoon annatto powder
- 2 hard-boiled eggs, peeled, or to taste
- 2 tablespoons chopped spring onions, or to taste
Instructions
- Bring water and rice to a boil in a large pot. Cook
- stirring constantly
- until rice is soft
- about 25 minutes.
- Heat vegetable oil in a saucepan over medium heat. Cook and stir garlic in the hot oil until golden brown
- 5 minutes. Transfer half of the garlic to a small bowl.
- Stir ginger into the garlic remaining in the saucepan; cook and stir until fragrant
- about 1 minute. Add onion; cook and stir until softened
- about 5 minutes. Add chicken; season with fish sauce and pepper. Cook and stir until chicken is no longer pink in the center
- about 5 minutes.
- Stir chicken mixture into the rice. Dust annatto powder over rice using a strainer; stir until dissolved. Add hard-boiled eggs. Simmer on low
- stirring constantly
- until rice reaches a porridge-like consistency
- about 5 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in spring onions.
- Garnish bowls of congee with reserved fried garlic.
Prep Time: 25 mins
Cook Time: 51 mins
Total Time: 1 hr 16 mins
Servings: 4