How to cook nutritious and delicious lotus seed porridge with minced meat and eggs simply

How to prepare Lotus Seed Porridge with Minced Meat and Egg

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  Preparing the ingredients

  For the lotus seeds, you can buy fresh or dried lotus seeds.

  • For fresh lotus seeds: Peel the fresh lotus seeds, remove the heart, and rinse them thoroughly.
  • For dried lotus seeds (sold in supermarkets): you need to soak them in water for about 5 hours to ensure they expand evenly and do not remain hard.

  Wash the carrots and dice them.

  For the rice used to cook the porridge, mix 80 grams of glutinous rice with 160 grams of regular rice, then rinse them thoroughly and soak them in water for about 30 – 45 minutes to soften the rice, so it cooks quickly and absorbs the flavors.

  

  

  

  
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  Boil eggs and lotus seeds

  After preparing, put the lotus seeds into a pot of warm water. Add 1/2 tablespoon of salt to the pot, and boil the lotus seeds on high heat until the water boils for about 5 minutes, then turn off the heat.

  Place a pot of cold water on the stove, add 4 duck eggs, and cook until the water boils, then turn off the heat.

  Tips for boiling eggs evenly and beautifully:

  • To ensure eggs cook evenly, after the water for boiling the eggs begins to boil, you should wait about 1 more minute before turning off the heat.
  • To have the yolk round and centered in the egg after boiling, during boiling, you should use chopsticks to stir the eggs well until the water boils.

  After boiling, take the eggs out, peel them, and cut them in half.

  

  
• 3

  Make the porridge filling

  Add to a bowl of minced meat 1 tablespoon of seasoning powder, 1/2 tablespoon of sugar, 2/3 tablespoon of fish sauce, 1/3 tablespoon of ground pepper, and 10g of chopped green onion, then mix well.

  

  
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  Cooking porridge

  Place a pot on the stove, add 2.5L of filtered water into the pot and bring it to a boil. Once the water is boiling, add the soaked rice into the pot. Next, add 1/2 tablespoon of salt, 1/2 tablespoon of cooking oil, and 1 peeled shallot into the pot.

  Cover the pot and continue to cook until the porridge boils vigorously, then turn off the heat, cover, and let it sit for about 15 minutes for the porridge to soften. After that, turn on the heat again and cook for another 10 minutes until the porridge boils again.

  Next, add diced carrots and cooked lotus seeds, 18 grams of rock sugar, and 500ml of warm water, then stir well. Cook for another 10 minutes until the porridge just boils again.

  Scoop 1 spoonful of porridge into a bowl with minced meat, then add 125ml of warm water into the bowl, stir well, and then add the mixture into the pot of porridge. Stir well to prevent the minced meat from clumping. Cook for another 2 – 3 minutes.

  Next, add 1/2 tablespoon of lotus seeds, 1/3 tablespoon of MSG, and 1/3 tablespoon of fish sauce into the pot, then stir well and turn off the heat.

  Tip:

  • During the cooking process, you should not stir or mix too many times as it will make the porridge mushy.
  • Cooking porridge this way will help you save time and reduce gas consumption during the cooking process.

  

  

  

  
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  Final Product

  Scoop the porridge into a bowl, place the halved duck egg on top, then decorate it nicely to finish.

  The porridge with lotus seeds, minced meat, and eggs has a very delicious flavor, sweet and fragrant from the meat, and the creamy texture of the eggs and lotus seeds. Remember to sprinkle a little pepper for an even more fragrant and attractive porridge!