Healing Shiitake Mushroom Congee

Ingredients

• 8 cups of water or veggie broth of your choice
• 4 cups thinly sliced fresh shiitake mushrooms
• 4 cups thinly sliced button, baby bella, shiitake mushrooms or a combination
• 1 cup brown rice (this recipe used long grain)
• 3 tablespoons grated ginger
• 1 chopped onion
• 1 chopped garlic
• juice of half lemon or fermented apple cider vinegar
• salt
• pepper
• Optional: Handful of seaweed your choice (I used thin Arame) and lemongrass
• Tamari sauce
• Spoonful of miso
• Chopped peanuts
• Spring onions
• Coriander
• Chopped hot peppers
• Extra grated ginger
• Leftover cooked veggies
• Fried egg
• Tofu cubes
• Seaweed sheets
• Bamboo shoots or sprouts
• Black sesame seeds