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Scientist Chef Cooks Rice

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A scientist Chef cooks rice:

  1. Washing technique : (clockwise or anti-clockwise in 1 direction)
  2. Soak rice in water (15 mins)
  3. Use distilled water to cook
  4. Temperature:
    中火190°C (8 mins),
    小火140°C (6 m),
    焖 simmer (11 m).

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Rice cooker also can cook good rice, but the “pre” rice-cooker steps still critical:

  1. proper washing technique (3 times) ,
  2. pre-soaking rice for 15 mins,
  3. cooking with distilled water.

Lastly, the “after” rice-cooker step: simmer for another 15 mins.

广东粥 Cantonese Congee

The word Congee comes from Tamil கஞ்சி (kanji)

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Rice (过夜饭): Store leftover cook rice in freezer.

Congee base (粥底):
– On a separate pan, sauté (烧香) pork lard (豬油) with spring onion / scallion (青葱).
– Pour the above into a boiler with 10 x (cup) of water.
– Add in a shredded century egg (皮蛋).
– discard the spring onion.

Cook congee:
– Add 1 cup of the defrosted (解冻) rice.
– Cook for 15 – 20 minutes (instead of 3 hours by traditional method).

Voilà! Cantonese Congee.

加肉料:
Turn-off fire, add into congee (in sequence):
– minced pork, (or fish filet)
– prawns,
– sliced pork,
– pork liver,
– egg,
– you-tiow (油条),
– 撒胡椒粉, 青葱, 红葱头 (optional pepper powder, onion spring, shallots)

粥品料理-廣東粥:

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Note:
Congee = Rice Porridge
Porridge is more general for other grains: oat, wheat, etc.

Spring onion or scallion ?