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Chinese Recipe : Pork and Lettuce Congee

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Ingredient

 Lean Pork  300 g
 Rice  1 cup
 Dried Scallop  30 g
 Lettuce  300 g
 Salt

 1tbsp (for curing the pork)

  1/2 tbsp (for curing the Lettuce)

 Water  
   
 Seasoning  
 Ginger  about 50 g
 Spring Onion  about 5 sprigs
 Coriander  about 3 sprigs
 Oil  1/2 tsp
 Light Soy Sauce  4 tbsp

method

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1. Lean Pork (300g), mix it with 1 tbsp of Salt. Curing the pork with salt for minimum 2 hours to over night.


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2. after curing, wash it before cooking. Remove the salt from the meat surface

Put the pork into boiling water and cook for 1 minute. After 1 minute, pick it up. Remove the water


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 3. Put 12 cups of water into the pot. Add the Pork


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 4. rinse 1 cup of rice. transfer the rice to the pot


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 5.  rinse Dried Scallop (30g , Optional),  transfer Dried Scallop to the pot. 

Cover it. Bring water to boil.


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6. Transfer the boiled ingredients into Slow Cooker.  Bring water to boil over high heat. Then switch it to slow. Boil it for 2 hours.


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7.  chop 50g of Ginger, 

Spring Onion (about 5 sprigs). Remove the heads. 

Rinse the Spring Onion and about 3 sprigs of Coriander. Then, chop it.


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 8. Put the chopped Ginger, Spring Onion and Coriander into a bowl.  Add 1/2 tsp of oil.

add about 4 tbsp of Light Soy Sauce. mix it well


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 9.  Rinse Lettuce (300g), cut it into pieces. Mix Lettuce with 1/2 tbsp of salt. 

Curing the Lettuce with salt for 30mins,let the Lettuce juice gone


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 10.  after half hour , squeeze out the Lettuce juice


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11.  after 2 hours, put some Lettuce into the bowl. Pour in the boiling Congee. 


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