Scrumptious Fish Sauce Caramel Porridge with Sweet Potatoes

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This gratifying bowl of multigrain porridge—made with lengthy grain brown rice, quinoa, and amaranth—is flavored with coconut milk and topped with sweet potatoes seasoned with a splash of new lime juice. The fish sauce caramel is every combined into the porridge as successfully as drizzled on top just correct before serving for a sweet and ultimate umami hit. Remove the porridge from the heat when the mix continues to be a itsy-bitsy bit loose. This is in a position to per chance just enlighten up by the level it hits the table. It’s doubtless you’ll per chance own a itsy-bitsy bit additional fish sauce caramel leftover—drizzle it on runt, steak, or seared vegetables.

Updated on August 2, 2023

Photo: Photo by Jennifer Causey / Food Styling by Rishon Hanners / Prop Styling by Heather Chadduck Hillegas

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Ingredients

Fish Sauce Caramel

  • 1 cup granulated sugar

  • ¼ cup fish sauce (preferably a trace and not using a sugar added, equivalent to Crimson Boat)

  • ¼ cup water

Porridge

  • cup raw lengthy-grain brown rice

  • 8 cups water

  • cup raw tricolor or white quinoa, rinsed

  • cup raw total-grain amaranth

  • 2 cups successfully-shaken and stirred canned unsweetened coconut milk (from 2 [13.5-ounce] cans)

  • 2 ¼ teaspoons kosher salt, divided

  • 2 medium (about 1 pound, 5 oz. total) sweet potatoes, decrease into 1-walk objects

  • 1 ½ tablespoons canola oil

  • 1 lime, halved; ½ juiced ample for 2 teaspoons juice, ½ decrease into 4 wedges for serving

  • Toasted coconut chips, for serving

  • Thinly sliced crimson Fresno chiles, for serving

Instructions

Create the fish sauce caramel:

  1. Instruct all ingredients to a simmer in a itsy-bitsy saucepan over medium, and cook dinner, stirring in total to dissolve sugar, till mixture is foamy and turns amber, 5 to 6 minutes. Remove from heat. Cooled sauce may just additionally be refrigerated airtight for as much as 1 week.

Create the porridge:

  1. Preheat oven to 425°F. Instruct rice and water to a boil in a gigantic saucepan over high. Lower heat to medium-low and gently simmer, stirring as soon as quickly, 20 minutes. Inch in quinoa and amaranth. Proceed to gently simmer, stirring and scraping bottom of pan as soon as quickly to prevent sticking, till water is absorbed and mixture is creamy, about 25 minutes. Turn off heat; plug in coconut milk, 5 tablespoons of the Fish Sauce Caramel, and 1 1/2 teaspoons of the salt. Let stand 5 minutes. (Combination will thicken because it stands.)

  2. While grains cook dinner, toss collectively sweet potatoes, oil, and final 3/4 teaspoon salt in a medium bowl. Assign of abode up potatoes in a single layer on an aluminum foil-lined rimmed baking sheet. Bake in preheated oven till tender, 25 to half-hour, stirring midway thru. Switch sizzling potatoes to a heatproof bowl, and toss with lime juice.

  3. Divide porridge between 4 warm shallow bowls. Top evenly with sweet potatoes, and drizzle every with 1 tablespoon Fish Sauce Caramel. Top with coconut chips and chile slices. Benefit with lime wedges.

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