INSTANT POT CHICKEN CONGEE | 1 HOUR MEAL | ASIAN COMFORT FOOD | DAIRY FREE, GLUTEN FREE 

Got too high and accidentally made congee when I was making Mexican red rice. Way too much tomato paste, chicken broth and chicken meat. Plus it sat there for two hours in the pot (somehow didn’t burn at all). That congee went real good when mixed with chorizo and refried beans, though.

I made this two hours after I watched the video! Such a great dinner. I added garlic and broth and some veg too. Added to my weekly menu 🙏 thank you so much for sharing the recipe.

I was gifted an Instant Pot for Christmas and have been finding so many recipes! I’m making this bow and my little apartment smells so good!

Thank you for this lovely soul-satisfying recipe. I love Kato! A smart dog- he always sniffs his food before he eats it! My dog Sammy has the same, above the eye's markings. I call them St Francis thumb prints. St Francis is the protector of animals and the environment. So dogs with these markings (in my view!) get an extra blessing! Thank you again- great recipe and instruction! 🕊️🕊️🕊️

I'm young but I love cooking. Trying out this recipe since I'm so inexperienced it seemed easy enough to make and good for a sensitive stomach. Looking forward to the outcome

I was craving this when I was sick. I never had it before but it looked so good. It was perfect.

We all have a cold this week, so thank you so much for the recipe! I haven't made it yet, but I'm sure we'll enjoy it.

I love instant pot congeee…. It’s the best way to make it IMO! Thanks for sharing :)

Thanks for sharing this recipe!

I tried this recipe today. It was very comforting and delicious. Thank you for sharing this.

Love how you’re so straight to the point and dispense with any unnecessary fillers. Made this a few times already and every time I do, it always reminds me of when my mom made this for me when I was young.

Love this easy recipe❤Thank you !

That looks so good! Making it in an instant pot seems like it would be great for when you’re feeling sick, since it doesn’t require you to do a whole lot. So gonna try this 🤤❤️

I love the dog! And now I’ll follow him 🥰 I have 2 frenchies and they eat everything I eat! Including this congee recipe.

I made mine with some boneless chicken breast and chicken feet! It came out scrumptious!!!👏👍👌great recipe!!!

Love your Instant Pot recipe! Looks super delicious and easy too.

Wow😮

this is a live saver. thanks!

I just made it. Since the instant pot, I no longer have to stand over the stove for 3 hours! Also works with 3 cups of leftover white rice. I top with thinly sliced romaine, shiitakes, green onions, and a dash of soy on top.

I love chicken congee. I call it Chinese penicillin. Very palatable when you’re not feeling well.

I use broken rice, which comes out creamy in the IP after 30 min, no extra ten minutes of stirring over heat required. Ten minutes less of deferred gratification! It's my comfort food especially when I'm sick, but I like pork/century egg. Not so different. I came for the recipe and stayed for the doggo. My dog loves it when I make anything with chicken, hoping I have cartilage and skin for him!

Lioks si delicious yumm yumm 😋

Just made some for my 7 months son. So easy and yummy! Thank you for this 🥰😋

Beautiful sous chef :)

Never had Congee before but this is so going on to my 'have to try this' recipe list :)

I know I already commented, but I just came back to say that I made this tonight, and we loved it! So easy and delicious, and perfect for when you're not feeling so great. Sadly, the store didn't have green onions, so we had to make do with what we had, but it was still pretty tasty! I have to admit, I'm not a huge ginger fan for the most part. I like the flavor it imparts to meals, but eating the ginger itself always kind of put me off. But I made it as you said to get a baseline for the recipe, and...it was sooo good! I wouldn't say I'm a ginger convert, but I'll be using it every time I make this. Thanks again!

Looks sooo good ... and healthy!! Will try for sure 😋😋

I will def try this

Ty for sharing your recipe!! I’ve been dying to make congee bc my mom always made it for me when I was younger (or sick). This looks similar to how my mom made it :) can’t wait to try it!

Making it now. Thanks 😊

EPFF YEAH. Cooking it now.

Your recipe was awesome, used chicken thighs instead of drumsticks but I needed to add way more salt (maybe that’s just me). Going to try using chicken stock next time. Thanks!

I just made this and it turned out great. I made mine with half chicken stock half water for the liquid and used chicken thighs instead of drumsticks. Everything came out perfect just like the video. I topped mine with sesame seeds, soft boiled egg, kimchi, green onion, and carrots. Nice recipe!

Delicious. My sister sent this recipe to help me through chemo and it is very soothing. The texture and came out just as you showed. This is my first time making a congee and I really appreciated the simple recipe. I cut up a whole chicken because I like the extra bone flavour. I may add even more ginger and some garlic next time just because I love them.

I use the blunt side of a fruit knife to peel ginger skin and it really works great every time.

I love this simplicity of this recipe. I also add Knorr Yellow Chicken Powder to the pressure cook. And then sesame oil to garnish.

Thank you so much for this easy way to make jook. My ex-husband is an ABC (American born Chinese for those that may not know what it stands for. IDK if its considered racist or not since he was the 1 who calls himself that. I don't think it is but if so just know I absolutely do not mean it that way at all. If anyone finds it offensive please tell me in a reply to this comment as I definitely wouldn't want to offend anyone) and we often would enjoy jook. He always made it so I really didn't know exactly how to do it. I've watched several different videos on how to do it and not 1 of them were the same lol. Yours looks the simplest and I'm giving it a go right now. I'm using up the left over dark meat turkey from Thanksgiving instead of chicken legs but I think it will taste, for the most part, the same. I didn't have any fresh ginger but I do have some frozen cubes of crushed ginger in the freezer so I'm using a couple of them instead. He would make the jook every year using the left over Thanksgiving turkey carcass and it became a tradition in our home. Since divorcing this year, if I want jook I need to make it myself. He did make a batch of it in 2019 and brought me a big container of it but somehow it just didn't seem quite the same. Probably because I didn't have the correct things to put on top of it. We would use chopped green onions, sesame oil, chili oil, white pepper, occasionally rehydrated dried Chinese mushrooms which I think are shiitake but I'm not positive about that and light soy sauce. I can't remember if there was something else he also prepared since those are the things I like in mine. Last year I asked him how to make jook and he did tell me but for some reason I can't recall what he told me and I don't want to keep pestering him about it so I decided to see what I could find on RU-vid. The way you're doing it seems the closest to what I do remember him telling me. Funny, after 17 years of marriage that jook would be 1 of the things I miss the most. We are still good friends, it was just that our lives were moving in different directions and divorce was the best for both of us. Again thanks so much for sharing and I will be sitting down to a nice bowl of jook this afternoon for my lunch and probably for dinner as well. I'll also be taking some of it to my daughter and her family. My 3 grandkids might like it too. I don't remember any of them trying it in the past so it will be a first for them. The oldest absolutely loves all things rice. The middle child doesn't like rice but may like this since it will be very similar in taste to her favorite, chicken and noodle soup. The youngest will eat just about anything that doesn't eat him first. 10 minutes to go now so wish me luck.

You did not use the porridge button, is there a reason? I enjoyed! This dish is one of my favorite ones :) I agree it cures it all!

I love this recipe! I topped mine with green onions and a sautéed portobello mushroom, dash of liquid aminos, a capful of apple cider vinegar, a drizzle of sesame oil and then dried pork :) SO good!

Thanks! 😊

Love to eat mine with the Chinese donut and fried gluten

Slurping is a good thing. :-)

I love your presentation! The one question I have is that a 6 or 8 quart instant pot? I. Have a 6 quart and that seems like it may be too much chicken for that size. Thanks

How many cups of rice? And water??

I made this yesterday. Super yummy. It was my first InstantPot recipe too. I've been sick and this has been a part of my "get well cocktail". Next time I will add more salt at the start. Thanks for the video and I loved Kato.

I bought the Instant Pot last week, and was pondering how to cook porridge, like how much water would i need? Your video was the first I saw and man, it was very easy to follow, and the porridge turned out very smooth and tasty. Instead of chicken, i added minced pork balls, and fried fish cake. Cooked the night before, and kept it warm for lunch the next day! This recipe is a time-safer! Next time, I'd try the chicken version that you did! :) Just one question. Is "cold water" really necessary? Will the texture of the porridge be smoother and creamier? I used water at room temperature, and am quite happy with the result.

try drying the washed rice then brown the rice in a dry pan first. It's a depth of flavor that is - - well - - try it

"feels like a great big hug in a bowl" precisely. It's been a while since I made some and I just had my wisdom teeth removed. Chicken Congee beats any recipe for chicken noodle soup.

Came for the congee. Stayed for the congeeeeniality.

Thank you for your video and recipe. I loved the dog and the pun. My congee turned out great. It does have a soothing quality to it.

Try it with a soft boiled egg on top as well

can I use half chicken broth and half water rather than the 9 cups of water?

Can one use brown rice instead?

Miss congee-niality? Have my thumbs up. Just take it.

If I double the quantity, it s the time the same at 30 min?

So many drumsticks for how many pp? Must u season te drumstick? If no pressure cooker how long to cook in normal s/s pot?

Do you know what the 'porridge' button does on Instant Pot? On some models it's labelled as 'Congee' instead. When I press mine, it just sets IP to high pressure with a 20 minute timer (too short), but not sure if it does anything clever beyond that, or its just meant to be a shortcut

That looks amazing and so do you.

My mom, filipino, peels ginger the same way.

You don't need to peel the ginger, the skin is full of goodness. Buy organic ginger and you just have to wash away any dirt on it. You are also washing all the nutrition in the rice, that milky water contains the most nutritious part of the rice.

More Kato in your videos please

Looks good. I added 1000 year old egg.

Why not just leave the gingers on? Btw, don't we lose the vitamins by washing the rice until the water run clean?

Subbed. You had me at Miss Congee-niality.

Hi! What size is the instant pot are you using?

This looks like the Asian version of chicken noodle soup

i use a spoon to feel ginger too, its safer

I am still learning how to use the Instant Pot that I purchased lately and wanted to make Congee, there is a function for Porridge on the Instant Pot, can I use that function instead of cooking manually?

If I only have 5 drumsticks, does it still needs 9 cups of water and one cup of white rice? Thanks!

Hi how much rice and water did you use?

Unless the ginger's peel is dirty or funky, I leave the peel on.

I only have a 3 quart so I did half the rice, half the water and half the chicken. I still cooked for the same time. I will see how it goes.

haiya..... use white pepper!

I followed largely your recipe without the saute at the end. Instead, I delayed the release for 10 minutes. Results was great. However, I'd caution against filling the pot up to the PC Max line like in the video. I had it an inch below that line against my better judgement and still made a huge mess when I released the knob.

It seems like all the videos I have watched use jasmine rice, brown rice,, medium grain rice and so on. I have sushi rice and basmati rice on hand. Also no chicken thawed out. I do have unsalted beef stock I made two days ago. Yes I do realize it would make the congee beef flavored but I'm ok with that. I'd really like to find a instant pot Congee recipe using sushi rice.

One of my favourite dishes. My friend is Chinese but he hates congee and says I am more Chinese than he is... I am not Chinese... Ah I do have 2% Chinese DNA 🙂

How much water and now many quarts is your IP? 🥺

You need to finish it off with some fish sauce, chile paste, sesame oil, and white pepper.

I wonder if chicken breasts or thighs work just as good as drumsticks.

No real reason to peel the ginger before

it was kind of bland but it did made me feel better

You don't mention about how much water your voice is too soft

:) 1hour? …. i made in in 8 minutes ..

You are missing a lot of important parts.

I didn't notice you washing your hands after petting and feeding your dog

Good recipe. Didn’t need to see the dog eating for 3 minutes. Try listing just the ingredients first before telling how great it tastes.

Skipped so many bits and had to endure dog bit.

the recipe is amazing but the pun is terrible haha

Nothing turns me off more is when they are about to cook a meal and they give the dog something to eat and then letting the dog like their finger like seriously where's the hygiene. I love animals but I'm sorry for and animal saliva don't mix

Please just show how to make the chao. The other “extra” stuff is too much & a waste of time.