Yield: Serves 6
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Total Time: 30minutes
Hsan Pyoke (English translation is Rice Boiled) is a recuperative comfort food for wet/cold weather or when someone is recovering from an illness. I used day-old short-grained, steamed white rice which I've used to make fried rice, as well. This is a quick version of the same soup I made a short while ago, except this time I had all the vegetables on hand, the soup was made in under half an hour, the minced chicken was replaced with meatballs and the soup base was made with a teaspoon of Ajinomoto instead of dried shrimp.
Ingredients
2 cups rice
5 cups water
2 Tbsp. dried shrimp (or scallops), diced
or 1 tsp. Ajinomoto
10-12 meatballs, quartered
1 heaped Tbsp. ginger, julienned or paste
2 cups diced carrots, celery, onions and peas
Salt to taste
Garnish:
Cilantro, chopped
Deep fried onions & garlic
Coarse Salt*
Coarse Salt*
Lime or lemon juice
Directions:
- Cook rice and water until rice is very soft.
- Add dried shrimp or Ajinomoto, salt and vegetables.
- Stir well and simmer until vegetables are very soft.
- Add meatballs & ginger; simmer uncovered to gruel consistency.
- Adjust salt to taste, remove from heat and pour into serving bowls.
- Garnish with cilantro, fried onions & garlic, coarse salt, sesame oil & a squeeze of lime.
** Coarse Salt, or Muoi Tom in Vietnamese, is a garnish that contains the following ingredients: Salt, Chilli, Dried Shrimp and Garlic. It tastes great sprinkled on soups, noodles, rice & butter/ghee, lentils or on buttered toast.
Vietnamese Coarse Salt and Ingredients
