Jook (Congee)

For when your belly feels yucky!

Ingredients
1c rice
3c+ Chicken broth (try some yummy organic veggie broth)
8c water (less water and more chicken broth gives more chicken flavor but both ways are good)
2T ground fresh ginger
2t Salt

Steps
Wash rice thoroughly, pour water off, add salt, ginger and broth.
Allow to stand for 20 minutes.
Add remaining liquid (water or stock)
Cook until it boils.
Reduce the heat to prevent boiling over, cover and simmer for 1 1/2 hours.

(Other recipes call for boiling for 30 minutes, then cover and cook for 2 hours – boiling just breaks the rice grains down faster. – you want them at the breaking down but still looking like rice - not mush)

Condiments
Lettuce chopped
Dried radish soaked in vinegar and some salt then chopped
Green Onion Chopped
Basil Chopped (fresh)
Eggs 1 raw egg per person (cracked into hot soup)
Cilantro Chopped
Ginger Finely chopped (fresh)
Peanuts Chopped
Chicken Cooked and chopped
Beef (Kal-Bi) cooked and chopped

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