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Home / Cuisine / Asian / Minced Pork and Dried Scallop Porridge (Congee)

Minced Pork and Dried Scallop Porridge (Congee)

By: 👩‍🦳 Linda · Published: 🖨 January 10, 2010 · Updated: 💻October 3, 2017 · 🗨 5 Comments

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This Minced Pork and Dried Scallop Porridge is deliciously warm, tasty, and satisfying especially on a cold or rainy day. Very easy to prepare.

This Minced Pork and Dried Scallop Porridge is deliciously warm, tasty, and satisfying especially on a cold or rainy day. Very easy to prepare. | RotiNRice.com

Rice porridge or congee is easy to prepare Asian style comfort food. In the winter, it’s thick consistency rivals that of cream soups to provide instant gratification all in one bowl. Hokkien and Teochew Rice Porridge is plain congeee eaten with Salted Eggs and pickles. Cantonese style congee is usually a one-pot meal incorporating meat and other ingredients to make it really tasty.

This Minced Pork and Dried Scallop Porridge is definitely a Cantonese style congee. Minced or ground pork lends flavor and texture while dried scallops provide sweetness to the congee. Dried scallops have a very concentrated flavor and so a little goes a long way. 8 to 12 dried scallops (depending on the size) will suffice in this recipe.

This Minced Pork and Dried Scallop Porridge is deliciously warm, tasty, and satisfying especially on a cold or rainy day. Very easy to prepare. | RotiNRice.com

I like my congee garnished with lots of julienned ginger and sliced green onions. Crispy yu char kway (fried crullers) is a nice to have because it provides crunch. Many Asian grocery stores carry either fresh or frozen yu char kway (a.k.a. youtiao). Other garnishes may include chopped cilantro and fried shallots. Do give it a try.

This Minced Pork and Dried Scallop Porridge is deliciously warm, tasty, and satisfying especially on a cold or rainy day. Very easy to prepare. | RotiNRice.com
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Minced Pork and Dried Scallop Porridge (Congee)

This Minced Pork and Dried Scallop Porridge is deliciously warm, tasty, and satisfying especially on a cold or rainy day. Very easy to prepare.
Author : Linda Ooi
Course : Main Dish
Cuisine : Chinese
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Prep Time 10 mins
Cook Time 35 mins
Total Time 45 mins
Servings : 6
Calories : 452kcal

Ingredients
  

  • 2 cups rice (400g)
  • 8 to 12 dried scallops
  • 1 lb ground pork / minced pork (450g)
  • 1 tbsp soy sauce
  • ¾ tsp ground pepper
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 3 tbsp vegetable oil
  • 1 tbsp sesame oil
  • 3 cloves garlic , minced

For Garnishing

  • 3 green onions (thinly sliced)
  • 2 inch ginger (peeled and julienned) (30g)
  • 1 stick yu char kway (cut into thin slices)

Instructions
 

  • Rinse and soak dried scallops in a small bowl of water until soften, about 30 minutes.
  • In a medium sized bowl, add minced pork, ¼ teaspoon pepper and soy sauce. Mix well and set aside to marinate.
  • Combine vegetable oil, sesame oil, and minced garlic in a microwave safe bowl. Microwave on high for 1½ minutes. Set aside.
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  • In a large pot, rinse and drain rice until water runs clear, about 3 to 4 times. Add 10 cups (2.4 liters) of water and soaked scallops to the rice.
  • Set it on the stove and let water come to a boil. When water starts to boil, tilt the lid, reduce heat and let it simmer for about 15 minutes.
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  • Add minced pork. Stir so that minced pork will break into small chunks.
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  • Add salt and remaining ½ teaspoon ground pepper and continue to simmer for another 15 minutes. If porridge gets too thick, add ½ cup (120ml) water. Stir to mix.
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  • To serve, ladle porridge into bowls. Garnish with garlic oil, green onions, ginger and yu char kway.

Nutrition

Calories: 452kcal
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This Minced Pork and Dried Scallop Porridge is deliciously warm, tasty, and satisfying especially on a cold or rainy day. Very easy to prepare. | RotiNRice.com

This Minced Pork and Dried Scallop Porridge is deliciously warm, tasty, and satisfying especially on a cold or rainy day. Very easy to prepare. | RotiNRice.com

NOTE: This post was updated on September 29th, 2016 with new pictures.

Enjoy…..and have a wonderful day! 😎


Categories: 🗂 Asian, Main Dish, Rice & Grain Tags: 📋 Chinese, congee

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  1. Nami @ Just One Cookbook says

    June 9, 2011 at 4:01 pm

    How funny. Now your area is cold and my area is warm – switched! Congee is something I need to work on, I mean eating wise. I haven’t had liked it much. I need to try really really good one like yours to convince me that’s how I should be cooking it. Your congee looks delicious with nice savory broth!

    Reply
  2. Charlene says

    January 7, 2017 at 12:52 am

    4 stars
    Hi,

    Thanks for the recipe. What happen to Item 3? I presume you add it into the porridge at the end?

    Reply
    • Linda says

      January 9, 2017 at 8:25 am

      Item 3 in the instructions became the garlic oil which is used as a garnish in item 8. 😉

      Reply
  3. Alicia says

    January 21, 2021 at 12:55 pm

    Do you think ground chicken works as a substitute?

    Reply
    • Linda says

      April 8, 2021 at 10:10 am

      Yes, ground chicken would work.

      Reply

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