At midnight, I decided not to dine out for supper. Instead, I chose to cook with the leftover rice in my refrigerator. At first, I planned to make fried rice like “Uncle Roger,” but based on my past experience, if rice has been in the fridge for two days, it becomes hard and loses its chewiness when cooked as fried rice. Anyway, I stumbled upon some posts where others shared that hardened rice can actually be used to make porridge. Without thinking much, I suddenly remembered that I had a can of Mei Hua abalone, so I decided to cook it together with the hardened rice in my rice cooker.
Preparing Mei Hua Abalone Porridge was surprisingly simple—all I needed was hardened rice, water, and the Mei Hua canned abalone.
I poured the hardened rice into the rice cooker, added 500ml of water, then poured in all the soup from the canned abalone.
I set the Tefal congee function and waited for about 1 hour and 30 minutes.
Since the rice was already pre-cooked and hardened, I didn’t think I needed to wait for the full timer. So, I checked the rice cooker at around the 1-hour mark.
The taste turned out quite nice, and I’d definitely cook it again in the future.
After all, canned abalone is quite affordable nowadays—some are as low as RM16.88 on Lazada during Chinese New Year.
Overall, I think this is an easy way to prepare a meal when you don’t feel like eating out. Plus, you can stretch the abalone into two meals by saving half in the refrigerator for another day.
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