Carrots and Baby Corn Porridge

What a tiring and stressful week. Both my youngest sister and my hubby are sick. Both have been sick since Tuesday. My sister was down and still is with cough and flu. And my hubby is down with viral fever, so his body temperature is going up and down like a yoyo from Tuesday till today. It freaks me out as this is the dengue season. Dengue fever dangerous it could be fatal as it reduces victim white blood cells. Fortunately, 2 doctors said my hubby does not have dengue symptom. *Phew.

My sister requested for carrot porridge. I thought that it is boring with just carrot in the porridge. So, I tested out this recipe. I add in baby corns and chinese cabbage. My hubby said it feels weird with the crunchy baby corn, as porridge should be soggy and soft. But they finished the whole pot. :)

Ingredients: (serves 5)
1 medium size carrot (peel off skin and cut into thin strips)
3 fresh baby corns (peel of the husks and cut into cubes)
3 leaves of chinese cabbage
1-2 slices of ginger (optional)
50g of thinly sliced pork or chicken meat
10 tablespoonful of cooked rice
1.5 liter of water
salt to taste

Method:

1. Add water and rice into a pot. Boil them at high heat for 10mins.
2. Add in the pork or chicken meat. Leave it to boil for 5mins.
3. Add in the carrot, baby corns, chinese cabbage and ginger. Leave it to boil for 5mins.
4. Then reduce the heat to medium - low. Continue boiling for another 30mins.
5. Constantly stir the ingredients to ensure that the rice (rice will be porridge at this point) does not stick at the bottom of the pot.
6. Depends on how thick you want the porridge to be, you can turn off the heat at your likings. Add salt to taste.
7. You can serve porridge with salted duck eggs.

Corn Soup with Pork Ribs

This is a pretty simple soup to make. You just need to get 2 sticks of fresh sweet corn, 300g of fresh pork ribs (nearer to the spine), 2 liters of water and 2 teaspoon of salt. I manage to get the bicolor (yellow and white) sweet corn. It is taste sweeter but it is more expensive than the yellow sweet corn.





Here is the making process:

1. Remove corn husks and clean corn with water. Cut corn into halves.
2. Rinse and clean pork ribs with water.
3. To remove pork smell and excess fat, boil a pot of water just enough to cover the pork ribs.
4. Once the water boil, place pork ribs into boiling water for 1min. Drain ribs and put aside.
5. At medium to high heat, boil 2 liters of water. Put in the pork ribs.
6. Once the water with ribs boils, put in the corns.
7. Wait for about 5 mins or once the water boils, reduce heat to low to medium. Leave soup to boil for 40mins.
8. Add salt last and turn off the heat.

That's it. It is that simple !