Portuguese Bean Soup
The universal question for anyone that has hosted Thanksgiving lunch or dinner is “what am I suppose to do with all my Thanksgiving leftovers?” For my family, it is always SOUP. Jook is an after-Thanksgiving staple, and in the last few years we’ve added Portuguese Bean Soup. For those of you who are not familiar with jook, it’s a rice porridge that is made with turkey leftovers.
Unfortunately, we don’t have a sacred family recipe to pull out of our recipe box, so we rely on Google. 🙂 The past few years I’ve used a recipe by The Tasty Island Honolulu Food Blog. It’s not too difficult and makes really good jook. The Portuguese Bean Soup recipe has been a trial and error experiment for my husband and I. But I think we’ve narrowed it down to: 1) don’t overcook the potatoes, and 2) don’t add the macaroni until you are ready to eat it because if you let it sit in the soup, it drinks all your soup and leaves you with a thick mess. 🙂
A Not So Pretty Picture of My Jook Bento
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