Want to Eat Homemade Bubur Lambuk? Make One on Your Own Using A Rice Cooker!

With the best rice cooker at home, you will be able to prepare a variety of delicious and fulfilling meals for your family in no time!

Bubur lambuk is a popular dish during the fasting month in Malaysia. How lambuk porridge is usually made is through gotong-royong in the mosque to be distributed to the congregation as food for breaking fast.

But now you don't have to wait for the fasting month to enjoy this dish, with the shared lambuk porridge recipe, you can make it anytime! Easy actually, even kids love it!

Lambuk porridge recipe

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According to Nur Haziqah's sharing on her Facebook page, she has uploaded several ways to make easy lambuk porridge at home using only an electric pot.

You can cook lambuk porridge in large quantities and stored in a closed container, then placed in the refrigerator . If you do not feel like eating white rice, you can just heat the ready-cooked porridge at any time. 

The good thing about this lambuk porridge is that all the necessary nutrients are complete in one porridge. Both in terms of meat and vegetables are all ready in one serving.  Usually lambuk porridge uses beef, but if you do not like to use meat, you can change it according to whatever your taste buds. 

There are also people who make lambuk porridge with tau fish! Yes, don't be surprised, it tastes pretty good. Even when mixed with fried onions it is delicious!

Ingredients you need:

  • 1 1/2 pots of rice- wash, soak for 15 minutes and drain.
  • The meat is cut into small pieces, washed and drained.
  • Adabi brand soup seasoning 1 pack.
  • Soup leaves sliced ​​small
  • 1 slice of carrot cut into cubes
  • 1 seed potato diced
  • 4 cloves garlic
  • 5 onion cloves
  • 2 inches of ginger
  • 1/2 teaspoon black pepper powder
  • 100 ml coconut milk
  • 2 liters of water
  • fried onions
  • Sugar and salt

How to make bubur lambuk:

  1. Grind ginger, garlic and onion with a little water until smooth. Heat oil and sauté the ground ingredients until fragrant.
  2. Then, add 1 packet of soup seasoning and stir.
  3. Add the meat and stir in 1 minute. Then, add the rice, stirring until smooth.
  4. Transfer the rice inside rice cooker. Add water, potatoes , carrots. Cook until it becomes fluffy.
  5. Next, add coconut milk, sugar, salt, black pepper powder, soup leaves and fried onions. Stir well and cook again until the rice is crushed.
  6. Ready to serve. Good luck!

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The benefits of porridge

Credit: Instant Pot Recipe by Amy + Jack

Porridge is a food that helps the digestive system be good for the stomach, in addition to being a healthy eating practice. A serving of porridge taken at breakfast contains carbohydrates that help provide energy throughout the day.

Rice-based porridge, even with coconut milk, can replace main dishes such as rice. It is not only nutritious, energizes, increases appetite, but also balances nutritional tastes such as sweet and spicy. In addition to its health benefits, porridge is also popular during the fasting month because of its easy preparation, thus saving time.

In Malaysia, besides lambuk porridge, rice-based porridge can be mixed with other main ingredients such as marrow, meat, chicken, shrimp, fish and crab.

Coconut milk-based porridge can be combined with grains, beans, rice, vegetables, pumpkin, potatoes and sweet potatoes.

For the community, they always eat porridge with chicken soup, while the Chinese are also usually eating porridge with side dishes such as horseradish sauce, anchovies, youtiao and so on. In fact, it is usually eaten at breakfast. 

So what are you waiting for, let's prepare this dish for the whole family. For kids who choose to eat, trust me they will love it! 

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Retno Andriani