Umami Congee

Umami Congee

1. Prepare ingredients: 2 Argentine red shrimps, 16g bamboo shoots, 2 shiitake mushrooms, 20g rice porridge.

PS: When choosing shrimp, it is best not to choose the one with black hair.

2. Put 20g of baby porridge rice (or rice) in the rice cooker, add 300ml of water to the rice cooker and cook the rice porridge.

PS: If you want to make the finished product refreshing and not turbid, it is best to cook a white porridge in advance. This porridge can be used in a rice cooker, or a casserole, a small stew pot, a soup pot, etc. Use the method you are familiar with at ordinary times. Add a little more water, because you will add a variety of ingredients to it later. If the water is small, the porridge will appear thick.

3. Put an appropriate amount of water in a pot to boil, remove the roots of the shiitake mushrooms, and blanch them in the pot.

PS: Some babies don’t like to eat shiitake mushrooms, maybe because they don’t like the smell of shiitake mushrooms, so I will blanch the shiitake mushrooms with hot water to remove the peculiar smell of shiitake mushrooms.

4. After the shiitake mushrooms are blanched, cut them into a size acceptable to the baby. If the older baby eats it, it can be appropriately larger and sliced into thin slices. If it's for a baby, you can cut shiitake mushrooms into thin shreds, or cut them into cubes.

5. Next, to process the bamboo shoots, first use the root of a knife to make a cut at the root of the bamboo shoot.

PS: Generally, when processing bamboo shoots, it would be very tiring if you peel them layer by layer by hand, so I usually cut the bamboo shoots longitudinally with a knife.

6. Press the blade firmly with the palm of your left hand, so that you can cut the bamboo shoots in half.

7. After cutting, the opened bamboo shoots can be peeled off directly.

8. Put an appropriate amount of water in the pot, take a small piece of cold water into the pot, wait for the water to boil, then simmer for 5 minutes.

PS: The bamboo shoots must be cooked in advance~~~ because this can remove the oxalic acid and astringency in the bamboo shoots.

In addition to causing astringency, oxalic acid also affects the absorption of calcium. Therefore, whether adults or children eat bamboo shoots, they must be blanched to remove oxalic acid.

9. After blanching, the bamboo shoots should be rinsed with cold water to ensure that the bamboo shoots are crisp and tender.

10. Cut the bamboo shoots into filaments or small cubes.

11. Head and peel the shrimp, then gently pick out the shrimp string with a toothpick. The shrimp tendons are processed in the same way.

PS: The shrimp meat that the baby eats, it is best to handle it carefully. If the shrimp thread is not removed, it will increase the fishy smell of the shrimp. It does not matter if the shrimp thread is disconnected when picking the shrimp thread. Just continue to pick the remaining part.

12. Then wash it with water and cut it into thin slices with a knife.

13. Brush a small amount of oil in the pot and add a slice of ginger.

PS: When making the porridge, putting a slice of ginger can enhance the flavor of the porridge. But don't cut into filaments. The filaments are not easy to pick out, and the baby will straighten his mouth when he eats it. Cut it into a whole piece, you can pick it out before it is out of the pan, just for the taste, it will not be eaten by the baby.

14. After the ginger is fragrant, put the shrimp in a pot and stir fry until the shrimp changes color.

15. Put shiitake mushrooms and diced bamboo shoots in a pot and continue to fry, dry the water vapor of these two ingredients, and fry them out of flavor at the same time, put them in a bowl and set aside.

PS: I fry for about 2 minutes and it's almost the same, you can refer to it.

16. After processing these ingredients, the porridge is almost ready. Transfer to a casserole or stew pot for further cooking.

Pour the cooked porridge into the soup pot, and pour the fried shrimp and vegetables into the soup pot.

17. Then stir and bring to a boil, then simmer for about 2 minutes.

PS: Do not add salt to babies under one year old. Babies over one year old can add a small amount of salt to taste according to the baby's taste. If you add salt, you can add it in this step. When cooking, use a spoon to stir constantly to avoid sticking the pot.

18. The porridge is cooked, don't forget to clip out the ginger slices.

PS: The ginger is added for seasoning. Don’t forget to pick out the ginger slices at the end. It is easy to pick out ginger by cutting it into thin slices, but it will be more troublesome if it is cut into thin filaments.

19. Today's porridge tastes super delicious, with the tender and smooth texture of shiitake mushrooms, the crispy bamboo shoots, the tight texture of the shrimp, and the extremely soft and glutinous rice porridge. I would like to drink a bowl of this kind of porridge.

Tips:

Do not add salt to babies under one year old. For babies over one year old, you can add a small amount of salt to taste according to your baby's taste. If you add salt, you can add it in this step. When cooking, use a spoon to stir constantly to avoid sticking the pot.