Hi Friends! It’s Fri-YAY and it’s official Summer today, despite the cloudy chill day we are having here in BC, Canada 😀 Warm soup or warm porridge is perfect for cold day and so now am sharing a recipe for a known rice porridge from Indonesia. Originated from Sulawesi island, from Manado to be exact, and this porridge is called Bubur Manado.

In Indonesia, people would any sorts of veggies and roots into this porridge and best served with fried salted fish (we call them ikan asin, and not forgetting chili sauce. Us, Indonesians, just looooveeee everything spicy, hey 😀 Here is the recipe if you’d like to try!

100 g rice, soak in water for 30 minutes, rinse clean
1.5 L water
2 lemon grass, bruised
1 cm ginger, bruised
1 cassava, skinned and cubed
1 yam or sweet potato, cubed
1 bowl of spinach leaves, rinse clean
1/2 tin of sweet corn kernel, drain
6 Thai basil leaves
salt to taste or Vegeta powder

Pour water into a pot, add in lemon grass and ginger, bring to boil
Add in rinsed rice, boil for 20 minutes til soften on medium heat
Add in cassava and yam, cook until soften, on low heat
Season with Vegeta or salt
Stir in corn, spinach, and basil leave, cook for another 5-8 mins

Serve porridge while still warm. You may top the porridge with green onion, or fried onion, and of course chili sauce if you like it spicy, and if you are not vegan, give a try fried salted fish!YUMMO! Have a great TGIF!