If you like it thin and thick, you can put more water in it, and the ratio of water to rice is 5:1. The best way to measure it with a small measuring cup is 5 cups of water to one cup of rice.

If you don't have a measuring cup at home, you can use your fingers to measure the amount of water. Such as: cooking rice is generally the middle finger into the water, to a knuckle height as a standard. Horizontal line just to the first knuckle best (to the plane of the rice as the bottom, not the bottom of the pot Oh!)

Family porridge common sense

1, rice should be soaked in water first:

Tanning rice and then soaked for 30 minutes, the rice grains to absorb water, only to simmer and soft and thick porridge.

2, simmer a pot of soup:

Why is the porridge outside always a little more fresh flavor than the one you make? The biggest secret is to boil a pot of soup first. Broth practice: 1 kg of pork bones, put into a pot of cold water to boil, in addition to the blood water out of the wash. Put 30 cups of water in a separate pot and bring to a boil, then add the pork bones and simmer for 1 hour, then turn off the heat.

3, master the porridge fire:

To start with a strong fire after boiling, to hurry to a small fire, pay attention not to let the porridge juice overflow, and then slowly cover the lid to leave a seam, with a small fire to cook.

4, constantly stirring before thickening:

wang fire cooking time to constantly stir, small fire cooking time to reduce stirring.

5, which materials can be simmered congee base:

Pork bones simmered soup, very suitable with meat into the porridge. Chicken broth can be suitable for seafood porridge, and broth made from roots and tubers such as woodchuck, kelp and radish is suitable for chestnut porridge and other Japanese-style porridges.

6, how to add ingredients to cook porridge:

We should pay attention to the order of adding ingredients, slowly cooked first. Such as rice and herbs to be put first, vegetables and fruits last. Seafood must first blanch the soup, meat is mixed with starch and then into the porridge to cook, you can make the porridge look clear and not muddy.

7, white rice porridge:

1 bowl of rice with 4 bowls of water, do not stir too much. People with cold stomach are recommended to cook porridge with white rice in boiling water, which is good for health.

8, make good use of casserole insulation properties:

The casserole should be used before the first hot pot with low heat, and so the casserole all hot and then turn to medium heat and gradually increase the temperature, cooking water can only be added to the lukewarm water