Congee (Con-jee) -Authentic Philippines Dish

Post by: Samantha Peters
Photo by: Camille In The Kitchen

Filipino dish are now the new trend and I find one dish in particular interesting! Its actually considered a side dish in Filipino cuisine! sounds interesting right!? so lets gets the recipe so you can make the dish and send me pictures of the turn out!   

• Prep Time: 15 mins
• Cook Time: 1 hour
• Total Time: 1 hour 15 mins
• Yield: 6-8
• Cuisine: filipino

Ingredients

• 2 tbsp coconut oil
• 1-2 tbsp ginger, grated or minced
• 3-4 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 small onion or shallot, minced
• 1 cup short grain rice
• 8 cups chicken stock
• 1 tbsp fish sauce (preferably filipino fish sauce)
•      2 cups shredded chicken (a rotisserie makes this easy or 4 poached bone in chicken thighs)

toppings (optional)

• sliced scallions
• fried chicken skins (remove the skin from the rotisserie or from the poached chicken and fry in a non-stick pan until crispy)
• boiled or poached egg
• fried garlic (chop up some garlic and fry in some oil until lightly brown)
• lime or calamansi
  

Instructions

1. in a large pot, heat up the coconut oil over medium heat
2. stir in the ginger, garlic and onion and saute until fragrant
3. stir in the rice
4. add 6 cups of chicken stock and the fish sauce
5. bring mixture to a boil, then reduce to low
6. simmer for about an hour, stirring every fifteen minutes or so
7. after an hour, the rice will be cooked down and the mixture will be very thick
8. stir in the remaining 2 cups of chicken stock and the shredded chicken
9. you can add in more water or chicken stock if you’d like a soupier texture
10. top with any assortment of sliced scallions, fried chicken skins, boiled or poached egg, fried garlic and a nice squeeze of lime

**the dish take hours 6-8 total to make but when complete it will taste delicious its worth the wait!**