How to cook porridge with cooked rice and how to make porridge thick

Rice porridge, also called congee, is one of the most common foods in people's lives. However, people usually use raw rice to cook rice porridge, which takes a long time. Some people want to cook rice porridge with millet, but they don’t know how to do it. Today, the editor will talk about this issue specifically for you, and will also tell you how to cook porridge to make it thick.

How to cook porridge with cooked rice

1. In life, not only raw rice can be used to cook porridge, but millet can also be used to cook porridge. However, there are certain methods and tricks when cooking porridge with millet. If it is not done properly, the porridge will become sticky, and the rice inside will clump.

2. When cooking porridge with cooked rice, you should put the pot into cold water and heat it over low heat first. During the slow heating process, use chopsticks to stir all the cooked rice in the pot to make it granular. When it is heated to about 80 degrees, you can use a stirring rod to stir directly in the pot to break up all the cooked rice. Then simmer it for ten minutes. In this way, you can cook fragrant, glutinous and delicious porridge.

How to make porridge thick

1. If you want the porridge you cook to be thicker, you can use an electric pressure cooker, and you must control the ratio of water to rice. Under normal circumstances, the ratio of water to rice should be around 50:1. Put them in the electric pressure cooker and heat them. After boiling, cook them for about half an hour. The porridge will be particularly thick and taste great.

2. If you want the porridge you cook to be thicker, you can also add a small amount of starch during the cooking process. This will also make the porridge thick and smooth, and it will have a sweet taste when you drink it, and the taste is particularly good.

3. When you cook porridge, whether it is rice porridge or millet porridge, you can put in an appropriate amount of glutinous rice. Because glutinous rice is very sticky, the porridge made after adding glutinous rice will make the soup thick and have a soft and sticky texture, and the porridge tastes particularly good.