Baby Porridge/Rice Soup Recipe

Tigerbaby is well loved by Grandma Judy. For her, Grandma Judy would wake up middle of the night to defrost meat/ bones and to boil soup out of them so that it can be made porridge. When Tigerbaby was in Australia, she would get Ikanbilis (anchiovies) soup, Chicken Soup and Pork Soup. With that I decided to write about it before i start to forget:

Note: In Australia, electricity is expensive *blurdad constantly remind me about it* so I decided to use Gas to boil. If you are in Asia (Singapore / Malaysia), I think it is much worth while to use Slow Cooker which runs on electricity.

To make Soup Stock with Meat base (Pork bones, Beef Bones, Chicken Frames or whole chicken)
bones have calcium and nutrition of other things which I don't recall..

1) bath the bones/chicken in hot boiling water for 2-3 mins for the "dirty" residude to rise
2) pour away the water. Reboil a new pot of water
3) put in the bones/chicken and boil for at least 2 hours. for example: If you use 4 bowls of water, let it boil till it remains of 1 bowl left of liquid.
4) let it cool down. Put in in fridge for half a day
5) Remove the top layer of oil and then use the soup to boil porridge/rice or freeze it for later use.

Infant more than 6 months -> Porridge

Type 1: Steam
1) Boil the soup stock
2) In a big pot, put some water and then put in a "steam pot", have the soup and rice grain in it and steam it for 20 mins.

Outcome: will look like sticky rice but the porridge would be much softer and it is open like a "flower" (Kai Hua) which is much easier to blend or to mashed it; and the essense of the soup goes all into the rice.


Type 2: Boil
1) Just add the soup stock with the rice grain in a saucepan and boil until its all soft.

Outcome:well grandma judy dont quite like it due to hse thinks that the soup essense is gone 1/2 by usig this method. indeed one thing, to use this method, ensure u got enough soup in it or else by the time it evaporates the porridge is not soft enough!

Infant more than 6 months -> Rice

1) This one is much easier, just put everything (the right amount of soup) in the rice cooker and let the cooker do the job.

Note: the usual amount of water you use to cook rice, use the same amount on soup. If you prefer more soft rice, add more soup.

Note: Sometimes a simple soup base porridge is more appetising to tigerbaby. She can finish one rice bowl worth of it!! Variety indeed she loves. Best of all, easy to make and nutrition is catered! Not to say, easy to bring out as well haha