congee

What is congee?

         Congee is a rice porridge used in China and other Eastern countries as a breakfast food. Basically use a handful of brown rice and cook it in six parts of water. Bring it to boil, cover it and cook it at the lowest flame or setting for 5 or 6 hours. The longest you cook it the more powerful it becomes.

         This simple food is easily digested and assimilated, tonifies the blood and is nourishing. Since rice strengthens the spleen-pancreas digestive center, by adding other foods to the congee, their nutritive value will be enhanced.

• Use  congee instead of rice with fish and vegetables.
• Add to vegetable burger's mix.
• Use it to make sushi.
• Mix congee with yogurt and honey as a late night snack. 

      Be creative.