Vietnamese
Chao Ga (Chicken Congee)
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Chao Ga (Chicken Congee) is Vietnamese home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Put the chicken in a large pot with the ginger, sliced, and the water, and bring to a boil, skimming off any foam.
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Reduce to a simmer and cook until the chicken is just cooked through, about 30 minutes.
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Lift the chicken out, let it cool slightly, and shred the meat off the bone, returning the bones to the pot to keep simmering.
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Rinse the rice and add it to the simmering broth along with the shallots.
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Simmer, stirring occasionally, until the rice breaks down into a thick, soupy porridge, about 20 minutes; remove the bones once the broth is well flavored.
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Season with the fish sauce and black pepper.
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Stir the shredded chicken back through the porridge to warm it.
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Ladle into bowls, scatter with scallions, and serve hot. This is the dish a household turns to first when someone is unwell.
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Serve it with
A Vietnamese dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Chao Ga (Chicken Congee), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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Something to sip
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What it is eaten with
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Something cool and fresh
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Chao Ga (Chicken Congee) carries fish. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | Yes | Banh Mi Op La (Baguette with Fried Eggs) |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 430 kcal
- Protein
- 45 g
- Carbs
- 39 g
- Fat
- 10 g
- Fiber
- 1 g
- Sugar
- 0 g
- Sodium
- 870 mg
- Saturated fat
- 3 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Chao Ga (Chicken Congee) takes about 55 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. It is at its best in the monsoon, which is when what goes into it is worth buying.
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