So apparently I've been making congee and didn't even know it. [View All]

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I looked up a recipe tonight, because it was mentioned in another thread, and realized I'd read of congee but never looked at a recipe before. I expected some exotic asian recipe (and of course, it's not exotic or complicated at all). When I make a basic chicken and rice dinner, I prepare the rice almost exactly the way the congee recipe describes. So now I want to know some of the various asian variations, and am off on a recipe search.

OH--and the recipe notes at the end that congee "can be sweetened."

Well, duh!! That's one of my all-time favorite comfort foods: rice cooked until it's thick and creamy, add butter, sugar and a little milk, and it's....well, I guess it's just a kind of porridge, but it's one of my favorite things in the world. So, of course, I had to make some for a late-night snack. :7