rice soup

This time, I will write about how you can make delicious rice soup with less fat, and good for your morning meal (Breakfast) and dinner meal. The soup is easy to digest, and good for everybody, even a 1 year old kid, and is good to eat when you have a cold or are sick. I like to make rice soup for my kids, every time they not feeling well or are sick.

My kids keep asking me so many times “Mommy, why you never make rice soup again?” or “mommy, can you make rice soup” My son asked.

“Do you likes?” I ask him back.

“Yes, make rice soup, next time okay” my son said

But I however, I never make rice soup for them. Last time, I made chicken soup for dinner. My 2 son, said “Umm…This soup is good, but I like rice soup better”

“Why? The chicken soup is not taste good?” I said

“It’s good! But I like rice soup better” “Next time make rice soup okay!” My son said.

Look like; they really want to eat rice soup.

Okay now, it’s time for me to make rice soup for them, and will share with you too. Anyway it’s almost winter season. On the cold day, we will like to drink or eat something that helps to warm up our body. Right?

How to make rice chicken soup

Ingredients:

1 cup jasmine rice

2 cups chicken breast cut into small pieces.

Full hand of cilantro stems

2 table spoon grinded garlic

1 - 2 tea spoon black or white pepper

Salt

4 - 5 table spoons soy sauce

2 - 3 eggs

1 cup chopped green onions

Shopped cilantro leaves

How to make:

Wash chicken breast and cut into small pieces then put in a big bow.

Blend garlic, cilantro stems, and black pepper together in blender with two table-spoons soy sauce, after it’s blended good, then take it out from the blender and put the mixture in the chicken bow.

Mix the garlic – pepper ingredients together with the chicken by stirring garlic-pepper mixture and chicken until all ingredients are mixed very well, and set aside for about 20 - 30 minutes to let the chicken meat absorb the herbs.

You can also mix the chicken with garlic-pepper mixture and leave it over night in refrigerator, so you don’t have to prepare it in the morning.

Put one cup of rice in the big pot, pour water in and rinse.

Then, fill the pot halfway with water, over the rice,

Turn on stove to medium high and put the rice pot on the stove, then keep stirring every 5 – 10 minutes to protect the bottom of the pot from burning.

When the water is boiling, put in 1/2 tea spoon salt and 3 table-spoons soy sauce, stir and put in garlic-pepper chicken.

Lower the stove down to medium and lets the soup boil, don’t forget to keep stirring the soup every 5 - 10 minutes, if you not stirring often the rice will stick to the bottom of the pot and the bottom pot will burn.

After you boiled chicken in the rice for about 15 minutes, now lower the stove heat to low, and taste the soup to see you need to add any more salt or soy sauce. Close the lid but leave the lid open a little bit to protecting the soup heat up to the top pot.

Keep boiling the soup for the next 20 to 30 minutes. Remember not to put too much salt or soy sauce in the soup, if you add too much salt or soy sauce, it will make the soup too salty.

But if you like salty soup, you can add salt or soy sauce later in your own soup bow.

Note: But if you accidentally put too much salt or soy salt and make the soup too salty, don’t throw the soup away;, you just need to add more water into the soup until you think is not salty any more.

Or, you can boil another rice soup in a separate pot, without adding anything to the soup, just rice and water. After the rice is soft, you pour that extra rice soup, into the salty rice soup, and your soup will good to eat now.

When boiling the soup, if the soup becomes a thick liquid, you can add more water to the soup to make the soup look like soup, not a rice pudding.

After the soup done, now is time to put eggs in the soup, and stir until all the eggs breaks into small pieces. Turn off stove, and stir in chopped green onion. Serve hot with cilantro leaves in your soup bow. Or you can put cilantro leaves, in the soup pot, which is good too.

 

 

Note: But if you accidentally put too much salt or soy salt and make the soup too salty, don’t throw the soup away;, you just need to add more water into the soup until you think is not salty any more.

Or, you can boil another rice soup in a separate pot, without adding anything to the soup, just rice and water. After the rice is soft, you pour that extra rice soup, into the salty rice soup, and your soup will good to eat now. 

When boiling the soup, if the soup becomes a thick liquid, you can add more water to the soup to make the soup look like soup, not a rice pudding. 

After the soup done, now is time to put eggs in the soup, and stir until all the eggs breaks into small pieces. Turn off stove, and stir in chopped green onion. Serve hot with cilantro leaves in your soup bow. Or you can put cilantro leaves, in the soup pot, which is good too.

Note: To make a rice soup, you need jasmine rice or Japanese rice, not long grain rice. Long grain rice is too hard to make a soup, because it’s not soft like jasmine rice or Japanese rice, so, if you use long grain rice to make soup, the taste maybe a little bit different than using jasmine rice. In my opinion, long grain rice is not good for you to make a soup.

Jasmine rice and Japanese rice are easy to find at any Asian grocery stores; like, Chinese grocery store, Vietnamese, Thai, and Loa grocery store. Jasmine rice will sell in a 5 pounds bag, 20 pounds bag, 25 pounds bag, and a fifty pounds bag. Make sure when you buy jasmine rice, look at the bag that say “New crop 2010” on the bag. New crop is mean new rice, and new rice will smell good and soft also delicious, the old rice is a little bit harder but is still good to use to make a soup.

Some local super market has jasmine rice for sale in their store too; you can also try to find at any target store, Wal-Mart, and Kmart store; they might have jasmine rice for sell, these American stores sales jasmine rice only in a small bag and a 5 pound bag.  

Meat; you can use any other types of meat you want to put in a soup, even seafood. You can also use ground chicken and ground pork. And the processes are the same steps as the above steps I have explained.

Enjoy your soup!