Hello hello! It's been a couple of weeks that the weather has been quite wet and dreary here in the Philippines.
Naturally, it's fun to just stay indoors where we're all safe and warm. Besides, our homeschooling will 'officially' start tomorrow (Monday) so mommy has got to prepare. But, this weather is simply calling to make a hot stuff of something, right?
Since I've had my share of a beef noodle soup yesterday at Sha Tin Courtyard Restaurant, I decided it's time to make champorado for this afternoon.
What is 'champorado'? To put it simply, it's like a chocolate congee :D Hahahaha, that didn't sound too yummy. But ever since I was young, it's a toss between the yummy choco-oozing champorado or a warm and comforting Filipino goto/lugaw/pospas -->I have yet to know the ultimate difference between these Filipino-style congees.
So champorado it is! :) A drawback is that our helper is on leave today so I can't exactly stand and stir by the stove, like how it's traditionally made. We've got two kids and it's almost their nap time so this mommy's gotta hurry! I logged on to Youtube and checked out videos on how to make it in a rice cooker. Our Zojirushi rice cooker has a "porridge" function so I figured we could use that today.
Cooked Champorado in our Zojirushi rice cooker |
And here we are. I was actually scared it will not come out as good as the stove top cooking but if my father-in-law says it tastes good, then it probably is really good! Hahaha :)
Ingredients
2 rice cooker cups of Malagkit/sticky rice
8 rice cooker cups of water
8 pieces Tablea pennies because that's what we have available (a video I watched said 3/4 cups of cocoa for 1 cup of sticky rice)
Sugar to taste, but I added 4 Tbsp
Milk to taste
Optional: Fried Tuyo fish
Instructions
1. Measure 2 rice cooker cups of uncooked Malagkit/sticky rice. Wash and drain.
2. Put the washed and drained malagkit rice in the rice cooker. Using the same cup, add 8 cups of water. Or if your rice cooker has a porridge setting, match the water added to the line. Example in my picture below, I used 2 rice cooker cups of uncooked rice so I added water up to the porridge 2 cups water line.
4. Add your desired amount of sugar / sweetener to the melted tablea. Mix well.
5. Add the mixture in #4 to the rice cooker.
6. Choose the "porridge setting" in your rice cooker and press on the "cooking" button. Wait for the Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star song to finish to put you in a bit of a good mood :)
7. After about an hour and a half, your champorado will be cooked and ready. Drizzle some milk if you so desire.
8. Add the optional descaled fried tuyo fish.
Enjoy and keep warm everyone!
Note: Some are asking if this can be done using an on/off rice cooker. I haven't tried this with an on/off rice cooker but have seen someone do it in a Youtube video. If you do try it, let me know how it worked for you!
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