Spring Congee

badass budget cooking

My friends, we have liftoff!

This month is budget month for me, as I roll up my sleeves to rid the remnants of my Christmas visa card bill (and two teenage birthdays).

My kitchen feels like a cross between MacGyver and Ready Steady Cook.

I know that feeding a family fast, healthy, affordable dinners can feel as easy as picking a lock with a wet herring. This Springtime Congee has your back. (As does last week’s high-protein kimchi pancake. Fist. Bump.)

There’s enough chilli and ginger in here to override your brain’s limbic system and combust with excitement. This is exactly how I feel about the arrival of Spring each year.

Rice congee is a beloved Chinese family staple. Creamy, nourishing, and bone-deep brilliant. It also manages to celebrate my incorrigible habit of over-measuring rice. Leftover rice is something my kitchen always boasts.

So today’s recipe is a thrifty, zerowaste beaut. As a result, it costs me less than €5 to make, given that most of the ingredients are already loitering in my fridge or pantry. I recommend making your own bone broth or chicken stock, for added flavour-bombs and nutrition grenades. It’s a wonderful habit to develop, especially if you have a freezer to store your beautiful stock in.

As always, these wholefood mantras and zero waste recipes are funded by my paid community, whose subscriptions allow me to continue to write this newsletter, buy ingredients, test recipes, style as well as shoot these photos and kitchen demos. If you’ve been enjoying Taking the Hell out of Healthy in its free form, please consider upgrading to become a fancy full member, which will mean you get access to my entire recipe archive too (especially useful since I deleted my website).

I appreciate the love and support. I don’t take your attention for granted. I want to supercharge your battery with easy, nutritious recipes that will be your weaponry for your body’s armour.

Love, light, and zerowaste highfives,

SJ

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