Wednesday 4 August 2010

bento #25: the one with the 8 treasures herbal soup rice...

i made soup yesterday! of course, chi would not consider it as soup, as i made it from those packet sachets and that crazy gal made her soup from scratch!

anyway, so i made a pot of 8 treasures herbal soup yesterday, with only some chicken fillet and salt. (i know, i know, i should use boned meat for boiling soup, but i hate touching raw meat! and fillets are the easiest to manage... :P) but after having 1 big bowl, i still had lots more in the pot... so that gave me an idea for my bento for today: how about cooking rice with that soup? so that's how the name of this post came about... rice cooked from soup!

so that's what i did... boiled down the soup to thicken it a bit more, soaked and chopped up some chinese mushrooms and dried shrimps, dump mushrooms, dried shrimps, washed rice and soup into the rice cooker and set the timer to finish cooking at 7.30am this morning.


voila! today's lunch...

woke up to the pungent smell of herbs... had to open up all the windows and glass doors to let it out! and the taste? really nice! a bit like yam rice, actually... and the chicken bits have a really strong herbal taste to it.

i packed along some garlic peri-peri sauce and my fav pickled szechuan vege, just in case the rice is too bland. no, they're not bland at all, but i still finished up the vege and sauce! :)

read also:
1. bento #23: the one with the pumpkin porridge
2. bento #14: the one with the experimental porridge
3. bento #8: the one with the yellow vege
4. bento #7: express bento
5. bento #6: sushi breakfast and home-cooked lunch

4 comments:

Biow said...

8 treasures? ba chan? i H.A.T.E. Enough said.

stargal said...

no, not bat-chan... it's bat-poh. at first i also thought it's period soup, but doesn't taste like it. anyway, i love period soup! :D

Emily said...

wahhhh i yam hungri!

stargal said...

lol...