Congee with Ground Pork/Chicken

Ingredients:

1. Ground pork/chicken
2. green onions
3. salt, pepper & red pepper flakes
4. rice

Instructions:

1. Ground Pork/Chicken, use any cut as lean/fatty as desired.
2. Season with chopped white sections of green onions, salt, pepper, a sprinkle of red pepper flakes.
3. Add one or two teaspoons of olive oil if using lean meat.
4. Taste the seasonings by cooking a coin-size piece in the microwave for about 10 seconds, then adjust the seasonings.
5. Boil some water, add meat, bring back to boiling point, then scoop out the meat foam.
6. Add rice – one part of rinsed UNCOOKED rice to 6 parts of water, or 2 parts of COOKED rice to 6 parts of water. This measurement includes water already in pot used to cook the meat.
7. When rice reached the desired softness, adjust the thickness of the soup.
8. When adjusting the seasonings at the end, add fish sauce or chicken bouillon/fish sauce, or both
9. Scoop into bowl and sprinkle with chopped green onions and cilantro. (If you don’t like the taste of raw onions, add them to pot, stir, and remove pot from heat.)