Chicken and Century Egg Congee
Serves: 8
Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 2-3 hours
Difficulty: Easy
Ingredients
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1 whole chicken (approx. 1.5kg)
4L of water
8-10 dried scallops
2 cups rice
Salt and pepper
Spring onion, sliced
Soy sauce
Sesame oil
Thousand year old eggs
Ginger, julienne
Fried shallots
Youtiao (Chinese doughnut)
Method
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Put chicken, water, scallops and rice into a pot and bring to boil. Simmer until rice has broken and has become thick. It should take 2-3 hours.
Remove the chicken and shred finely. Add the chicken back into the congee. Ladle into bowl and top with some soy sauce, few drops of sesame oil and spring onion.
Place some thousand-year-old eggs on top, fried shallots and enjoy with youtiao (the Chinese doughnut).
Notes
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I also like mine with some pieces of ginger that have been julienne, but this is of course personal preference.
