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Borbor

Name: Borbor
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Cambodia
Ingredients: 1 cup Raw rice; 300g Chicken Thigh; 1 piece Ginger; 2 cloves Garlic; 2 tsp Chicken Bouillon; 1 tbsp Fish sauce; 1/2 bag Bean sprouts; 2 Green Onion; To taste Cilantro; 1 tbsp Fried Garlic; 1/2 Lime

Rice

⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Rice simmered soft with chicken and ginger and topped with fried garlic and bean sprouts — Cambodian rice porridge.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Borbor is Cambodian rice porridge, loved for breakfast, as a late-night meal, and when feeling unwell. Rice is simmered in chicken broth until silky and scented with ginger and fried garlic. It's usually topped just before eating with bean sprouts, green onion, and cilantro, with fish sauce or lime added to taste.

🌆 Where it's eaten: Under the lights of a night stall, people heading home from work line up for a warm bowl in front of the owner stirring a big pot of porridge.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Raw rice 1 cup
Chicken Thigh 300g
Ginger 1 piece
Garlic 2 cloves
Chicken Bouillon 2 tsp
Fish sauce 1 tbsp
Bean sprouts 1/2 bag
Green Onion 2
Cilantro To taste
Fried Garlic 1 tbsp
Lime 1/2

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Rinse the rice and drain.
Put 1.5L water, the chicken thighs, sliced ginger, crushed garlic, and chicken stock powder in a pot and bring to a boil.
When the chicken is cooked, remove it and shred finely by hand.
Add the rice to the pot and simmer on low for 40 minutes, stirring occasionally, until silky.
Season with fish sauce and return the shredded chicken.
Ladle into bowls, top with bean sprouts, green onion, cilantro, and fried garlic, and serve with lime.

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