This Cambodian Chicken Rice Congee is Khmer comfort soup when you have a cold. You can also use fish, pork blood, and pork belly.

Cambodian Chicken Rice Congee
Recipe by Cambodia RecipeThis Cambodian Chicken Rice Congee is Khmer comfort soup when you have a cold. You can also use fish, pork blood, and pork belly.
Course: RiceCuisine: CambodianDifficulty: Easy
Servings
2
servingsPrep time
30
minutesCooking time
40
minutesCalories
681
kcalTotal time
1
hour10
minutesIngredients
Use 8 cups of broth
1 small 1 chicken
1 cup 1 long grain rice
1/4 cups 1/4 dried shrimp (soak rinse set aside)
1/4 cup 1/4 preserved cabbage (wash rinse set aside)
4 4 garlic gloves pound in mortar pestle to paste with 1 teaspoon of salt
A handful of big flat dried rice noodle
2 tablespoon 2 fried garlic or shallot for garnish
2 2 green onions cut to 1 inch long for garnish
2 tablespoon 2 fish sauce
1 tablespoon 1 sugar
Directions
- In a big pot on high heat bring the chicken broth to a boil
- When the broth is boiling add rice let the rice cook until it is soft and not raw in the middle
- Then add chicken, dried shrimp, preserve cabbage, garlic paste cooked for 5 minutes to let the flavor come and the rice is soft (is like borbor)
- Then add the flat noodle to it cook until it is soft
- Now add sugar, salt or fish sauce to it, taste and adjust the flavor
- Turn the heat off
- Garnish the soup rice with fried garlic or shallot and green onions
- If you soup rice is too thin don’t worry, when it is cold it will be thicker, but if it is too thick do add more broth to it. You can use chicken broth from the can if you like.
Notes
- When ready to serve you can ladle the soup rice into a serving bowl and add the bean sprouts, lime wedge, green onion and so on according to your taste.
Nutrition Facts
- Total number of serves: 2
- Calories: 681kcal
- Carbohydrates: 94g
- Protein: 50g
- Fat: 9g
- Saturated Fat: 2g
- Cholesterol: 76mg
- Sodium: 4909mg
- Fiber: 2g
- Sugar: 10g