Thursday, July 5, 2012

rice porridge


======Vegetarian Porridge (Yachae Juk)
1 cup of rice
Normal Porridge Water Level on the cooker
French Mirepoix (The french call this the holy trinity of carrots, celery, onions in this exact ratio)
     --1/4 cup super finely diced carrot
     --1/4 cup super finely diced celery
     --1/2 cup super finely diced yellow onion (I think I was supposed to use white onion?)
1 tablespoon of sesame oil

It comes out acceptable as a vegetarian porridge.  The only thing is that the Celery is quite powerful giving it an "earthy" taste.  If you don't like it then I also made a batch without the celery and the flavor is way, way milder but I think it goes better with Kimchi without the celery...

======Chicken Porridge
Same as above but instead of water I used Chicken Broth (made from real chicken)
I used Mirepoix again

Again... I'm not sure if celery belongs in there.  I know mirepoix works with french foods I have no idea if it will work with asian tastes.
 I might try the next batch of chicken porridge without the celery.