Cantonese Congee With Chicken Recipe

Ingredients

salt

oil

1cup of long grain rice

4lb of dark meat or whole chicken cut up into pieces

dried scallops

ginger

scallion

lettuce

sesame oil

white pepper

thoroughly wash/rince the rice, then add some salt and oil to marinate the rice. Leave it for 30min to 1hr.
let dry scallops soak in hot water for 15min, then shred with hands
chop up the chickens into bite size pieces and marinate with just salt during the 1st hour when rice is cooking
put 1cup of rice to 10-11cups of water and set to boil. Once it has boiled, let it simmer in medium/low heat.
after 1hr, put the chicken pieces in and cook for another 1 and half hour.
after the 1.5hrs of cooking, the congee should be ready to serve. Garnish with julienne ginger, lettuce and finely chopped scallion. Season with white pepper and sesame oil.