Love To Bake Fried Porridge 炒粥 - Mff Kedah Perlis #2

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This is a specialty establish inwards Serdang, Kedah. The most pop store that serves this is Sin Aik Kee.
Sounds weird? Not really.

I kickoff got to know virtually this from a TV show, Taste amongst Jason (Axian) together with I happened to come across the final fleck of the show... couldn't instruct much from it, but I knew this dish was actually pop there. Then I establish Axian's blog, but it no longer exists now. Before the weblog was closed, I happened to come across the picture of the raw ingredients used.

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I know at that spot is also fried porridge inwards Klang Selangor. But there are differences. The 1 in Kedah uses dried cuttlefish that has been fried. And that gives it that ummph!
I conduct never eaten whatsoever fried porridge earlier together with how I replicated this was based on how I saw it beingness fried on TV together with reading descriptions virtually it.

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If y'all are trying to imagine how the gustatory modality is like... it's null also weird. It's only similar fried noodles, together with instead rice porridge is used inwards house of noodles. Meat, prawns, soy sauce, salted pork together with chives, null out of the ordinary right? U only imagine a normal bowl of porridge amongst added smokiness together with soy sauce. Just that!

And how overnice this is, also depends on your wok. The initial browning of fresh meat together with prawns volition add together fragrance to the porridge, only similar how a skilful plate of fried noodles is. No smoky wok, no wokky smell, hence, non nice. Make certain y'all wok is actually hot when y'all start cooking it. And don't produce it on a tiring day. The porridge is non slow to stir together with stir together with stir. Needs some arm work, LOL.

My hubby, Lydia and I whacked this large bowl of porridge clean.

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Fried Porridge

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Recipe by: WendyinKK
Original idea: Sin Aik Kee via Taste amongst Jason

25gm dried rolled cuttlefish/squid
½ loving cup peeled prawns
½ loving cup sliced pork
1 heaped loving cup of Chinese chives sections.
1 Tbsp finely chopped garlic
two cups water

Salted pork
150gm skinless pork belly
8gm salt

Boiled rice
1.5cups Siamese rice
1.5L water

Seasoning
two Tbsp nighttime caramel sauce (as nighttime equally u want)
two Tbsp low-cal soy sauce (use sufficient to season)
1 Tbsp fish sauce
½ Tbsp flounder seasoning (or move chicken stock or bilis stock powder, if using these, pls move less)
1/4 tsp white pepper (or equally much equally u like)

1. Prepare salted pork two days ahead. Marinate the pork amongst salt, embrace together with chill.
2. Wash rice together with together amongst water, convey to a boil. Lower to a simmer for twenty minutes until rice is cooked through. Bring dorsum to a rolling boil until the H2O turns murky together with whitish. Turn off the oestrus together with permit the rice sit down piece y'all produce the rest, the rice volition expand.
3. Thinly piece salted pork belly. Place into the dry out wok together with create on medium oestrus until fossil oil starts to ooze out, plough oestrus to depression together with pocket-size fry until no to a greater extent than bubbles are seen. Drain together with dish up. (choose to move on or discard the lard)
4. Tear cuttlefish into pocket-size slices. In a build clean wok, 1 medium depression heat, position inwards two Tbsp of oil. Fry the cuttlefish until golden brown. Dish upwards together with drain. Discard the fossil oil together with launder the wok. (If the cuttlefish isn’t pre sweetened, together with the wok isn’t sticky, y'all tin move dorsum the oil.)
5. Bring everything nigh your cooking area. Heat wok until really hot. Put inwards fossil oil together with when it’s really hot, position inwards garlic, hand it a quick stir together with position inwards pork slices. Toss it around together with when meat has turned opaque, position inwards prawns together with stir pocket-size fry until really fragrant.
6. Pour inwards all the rice + liquids. With the spatula, move on on scraping the sides together with stir. Put inwards fried salted pork together with move on on stirring. Add to a greater extent than H2O if needed. Put inwards fried dried squid.
7. Add inwards the seasonings together with gustatory modality it, suit it to last undersalted.
8. When the porridge has come upwards to your preferred consistency, add together inwards Chinese chive sections together with hand it a few to a greater extent than stirs together with dish up.

*I saw pocket-size bottles of Flounder seasoning sold inwards Jusco, similar those white pepper bottles. Mine is a large bottle given to me past times beau blogger HKChoo