9 Congee Recipes - Greedy Girl Gourmet

Looking for Chinese rice congee recipes for breakfast, lunch, or dinner? These easy Cantonese rice porridge ideas include savory Asian chicken congee, rice cooker congee, healthy pumpkin rice soup, congee with leftover rice and more! (Include ideas for toppings and side dishes.)

Different types of Chinese rice porridge recipes for an Asian breakfast.

Making congee is a great way to use up leftover rice (but you can also use uncooked rice.) Congee is all about breaking down the rice grains to make a creamy porridge and, with leftover rice, you're halfway there!

Garnish the Chinese congee recipes below with some green onions, fresh ginger, Chinese dough fritters, salted egg, and you have a complete meal. For more rice congee toppings and side dishes ideas, click here.

Tip: if you don't have time to watch the stove, just throw the leftover rice and water or chicken stock in the rice cooker.

Fish Congee

A bowl of Chinese congee with coriander and sesame oil.

For fish porridge, fresh fish is essential or the whole dish will be fishy and ruined. Another tip is to marinate the fish (or seafood) in ginger juice and shaoxing wine to remove any odours.

Chinese Fish Congee Recipe 魚片粥

This Chinese Fish Congee Recipe 魚片粥 is a delicious and easy Asian comfort food that will take you back to your childhood. It take at minimum an hour to make the traditional way and so I share 4 hacks to reduce the cooking time to 20 minutes!

Click here for the cod fish rice porridge.

A spoonful of homemade Chinese congee with fish and ginger.

Pork Congee

A bowl of pork and ginger congee with side dishes.

Chinese Ground Pork Congee Rice Porridge Recipe

This Chinese Ground Pork Congee Porridge Recipe is full of flavor and the perfect Asian comfort food for cold weather. This nourishing, one pot meal is a hug in a bowl, and will take you right back to your childhood! (Cantonese congee takes at least an hour to cook to cook till thick and creamy, so I also share 4 hacks to reduce the cooking time from 70-90 minutes to 25 minutes!)

Click here for the pork porridge.

Close-up of a spoonful of ground pork rice porridge with sesame oil.

Shrimp Congee

A bowl of Cantonese jook with mixed seafood in it.

Easy Chinese Seafood congee with shrimp/ prawn

This Easy Chinese Seafood congee with shrimps or prawns is a delicious seafood rice porridge that is easy to cook but still silky and rich. Chicken stock/ broth optional!

Click here for the shrimp congee.

A bowl of seafood congee with prawns and ginger.

Leftover Roast Chicken Porridge

A close-up of a bowl of chicken congee — Fried dried prawns are one of my favourite toppings, so I added some to the congee here

The ultimate wallet-friendly recipe: be extra virtuous and save not just leftover rice but also leftover roast meat after Christmas, Thanksgiving, or Sunday lunch (which can also be turned into these rotisserie chicken recipes)!

To top it off, keep the chicken bones to make stock!

Leftover rotisserie chicken jook

Consistently 1 of the top posts on my blog, this ultimate leftover dish that uses up not just leftover rice but also leftover roast/ rotisserie chicken!

Click here for the leftover roast meat congee.

Scallop Congee

A spoon scooping a fresh scallop out of a bowl of seafood congee.

Dried scallop congee recipe

A delicious seafood congee which uses both dried and frozen scallops for flavor.

Click here for the dried and frozen scallop porridge recipe.

Abalone Congee

Close-up of a bowl of chicken porridge with a huge abalone on top.

If you love canned abalone, here are more recipes to use them up!

Easy Chinese Canned Abalone Porridge

A no-fuss, easy Chinese Canned Abalone Porridge recipe, also known as jook or congee, which can be made using store cupboard ingredients. So easy there's only 1 photo for the step-by-step instructions, it's the perfect comfort food and a delicious recipe for a weekday dinner.

Click here for the abalone congee recipe.

Chicken Porridge

Close-up of brown rice cook in a blue and white bowl.

Easy Singapore Chicken Brown Rice Congee

A jook version of the famous Singapore Hainanese Chicken Rice that is just as fragrant but super easy to cook!

Click here for the porridge version of Singapore Chicken Rice!

Fresh Pumpkin Rice Porridge

A bowl of warm orange Chinese pumpkin porridge next to fall decor.

Fresh pumpkin adds a natural sweetness to the rice porridge and an appetising golden color!

Chinese pumpkin rice with soup and fish

Adapted from a 5-star hotel with a Michelin star Chinese restaurant's recipe, this easy but delicious pumpkin rice is easy enough to cook on weekday nights. Make sure the rice is completely heated up before serving! Food poisoning from rice is not to be scoffed at!

Click here for this pumpkin poached rice recipe.