Spicy Tuna Rice Porridge Recipe
Rice porridge is one of the great ways of using up leftovers from the previous day. Leftover rice can be kept in the fridge, but it gets a little dry.
Adding water and blending it into a porridge, makes it usable again. Sliced meats or fish might need a little pepping up. Adding chopped coriander, lemon grass, and chilies and you can turn it into a 'yum', a spicy salad dish.
The two together make a complete meal from the previous day's leftovers, it's such a staple of Thailand.
The traditional way to make rice oatmeal is to slow cook rice overnight till it breaks down. Thankfully, a modern blender makes short work of rice oatmeal!
Ingredients for recipe:
Left Over Thai Fragrant RiceWater
2 Stems Lemon Grass
1 Tablespoon Fish Sauce
1 Bunch Coriander Leaves
2-3 Small Red Onions
6 Chilies
Slice of Lemon
2 Large Cloves Garlic
1 Tin Tuna Chunks
1 Duck Egg (or Chicken Egg)
Fried Garlic (Optional Garnish)
Sliced Ginger (Optional Garnish)
Directions:
1. Slice the garlic, red onions, and chilies thinly.2. Mix in a bowl, with a tablespoon of fish sauce, and the juice from a slice of lemon.
3. Drain the tuna, and lay it out on a serving plate.
4. Cut the top and tail off the lemon grass, and slice it thinly. You will eat this raw, it needs to be delicate thin rings. Sprinkle that over the tuna.
5. Spoon the garlic/onion/chilies mix over the tuna. Spoon it all, including any juice.
6. Garnish with some chopped coriander leaves.
7. Set aside in the fridge to let the flavors meld together while we make the oatmeal.
8. Rice goes off quickly if you cook it and leave it out in the heat, so store leftover rice in the fridge overnight. Take yesterday's leftover rice, add water and blend it into a smooth thick porridge. It's nice to keep some pieces for texture, but not too much, so don't over-blend it.
9. Bring this rice-water mix slowly to a boil, careful it can burn in the pan. You'll notice we don't season it. In Thailand the rice isn't seasoned, the side dishes bring the seasoning and flavorings to the rice.
10. Take a raw duck egg, add it to the bowl of boiling porridge and swirl it through. Cover and leave it to cook for a minute. It's OK, I don't really expect you to do this, I know people are concerned about the dangers of raw eggs these days. You can add it to the porridge while cooking it in the pan to make sure it's cooked fully through, or zap it in the microwave to begin cooking it in the bowl before adding the porridge.
11. Eat the rice oatmeal with shredded ginger, the spicy tuna mix, and if you have it, fried garlic.
Thank you and Bon Appetite. Alex
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