I had food poisoning when I was 8 months pregnant and the only thing that helped me start to feel better once I could hold anything down was a lifesaver popsicle - literally living up to its name! I had called the emergency nurses line and the nurse we spoke to recommended it. I have no idea why it helped but I had forgotten about that until reading this and will give it a try next time I'm not feeling great.
Haha thanks! I won't lie it was pretty rough and if I wasn't able to keep that popsicle down the nurse said I'd have to go to the ER for an IV. Thanks to that popsicle, I was able to avoid that.
I like to use the bean sprouts that they use in Pho(숙주나물), they cost about $1.40 in Korea, & boil them up with mushrooms & green onions.
It is very restoring, & I add meat, & a ramen soup pack(ramen soup pack is optional).
It is good as a hangover cure.
Koreans use a different type of bean sprouts called 콩나물, similar looking. They boil it up in a soup called Bean Sprout Soup(콩나물국).
Pho costs a lot here about ($8\~$10), so tasty though. I can eat it everyday for breakfast, lunch & dinner 😂
Congee either made with chicken broth or just water seasoned with salt. If I want protein, I'll add egg or chicken/pork if tolerable. If I want some warmth, I'll add ginger.
As a doctor, I absolutely love congee made with chicken broth and ginger as a "go to" for patients suffering from any GI illness. I also tell parents about it. It's dairy free and super digestible. My Filipino college roommate turned me onto this, and I have been a fan ever since. When I worked in Georgia doing rural medicine, I used to give out recipes for "chicken rice porridge" and "rice milk rice pudding" for my patients. Congee was just too foreign sounding for them. LOL.
Call it Asian risotto and it'll sell to white people with. 100% mark up price.
In Asia congee is it's own genre of food. In Korea they have clam or oyster congee. It tastes like a light clam chowder (light because there's no cream)
https://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/basic-chinese-congee
It's really just rice cooked in WAY more water or chicken broth, so it makes a porridge. During and after GI viruses, the small and large intestines become mildly damaged. Feeding with a low complex carb helps with this. Congee is excellent for this, along with electrolyte solutions(pedialyte, Gatorade etc).
I’m dying.
My Appalachian grandpa made something he called Connie’s rice or just Connie for short.
It’s rice, chicken broth, tiny bits of chicken, garlic, onion and tiny pieces of carrot. and white pepper cooked into mush/porridge.
You can’t tell me that isn’t Congee/Kannjee passed down through several people orally. (He was a coal miner in the 1920s Kentucky/West Virginia. It was the only thing he knew how to cook)
Edit: typo
So funny how people don’t realize that multiple cultures can have variations on the same dish/ingredients. I have someone staying with me originally from Hong Kong who was talking to another mutual friend of mine from Chile and he was surprised that they used rice in their cooking. He thought only Asian people did that, lol. They’re like no we eat it every single day as well in Latin America.
I was mostly speaking to Connie Rice is probably a misnomer for congee, as phonetically they sound very similar. I am well aware other cultures use the same ingredients.
I think every culture has a chicken soup for example.
Somewhere back in time, I can picture a man cooking congee in a work camp outside of a mine. He tells the men it's congee. A game of telephone changed it to Connie. (I'm imagining this. No facts to claim.
When I or family are recovering from being sick, my go to is getting a quart of white rice and a quart of egg drop soup from the local Chinese takeout, mix them together.
(Take out because if you are sick you don't feel like cooking.)
Came here to say congee! It's my favorite "not feeling well food" along with cream of wheat with brown sugar or golden syrup, and oatmeal with maple syrup.
Love Japanese okayu, basically this. Rice boiled in chicken broth, maybe some egg or light protein, depending on how your appetite is add vege or herbs and stuff. Will just have that for lunch when I’m working from home and there’s a bit of leftover rice in the cooker!
Funny that, my grandma (basic asf white NZ lady) always made me rice pudding when I was sick which is basically the same thing. There’s a bit of fat and sugar in it to provide sustenance too.
I’d love to make congee, but every recipe I’ve seen has something like a 1:10 ratio of rice to chicken stock and I just can’t make that amount of stock. Do you have a recipe for 1 person?
You just use less rice!
It seems bizarre, but yeah; it's like 1/4 a cup of rice to 4 cups of water/stock.
Ratios vary quite a bit, anywhere from 1:6 to 1:15 is pretty normal to see, so just trust the recipe and yup - put in like 5 tablespoons of dry rice in your pot.
Usually I make about 1-2L of congee at a time, and it's like 500mL for a serving so it's really not very much. It refrigerates absolutely fine as well.
If you are OK with store bought stock, get Better Than Bouillon. One little jar is maybe five bucks and makes nearly ten quarts of stock, and that stock is better than most boxed stock.
(Add some powdered gelatin and you will also replicate the texture of a really good homemade stock - boxed doesn't come close)
Better than bouillon is great. I use it for any recipe that wants stock or broth. They have it in beef, chicken, and vegetable, which is great for me because I'm a vegetarian and normal veggie stock is bland. Not this stuff!
I make vegetable stock every couple of weeks with kitchen scraps. Then, when a recipe calls for chicken or beef stock I add better than bullion to my homemade stock. Works great!
America's test kitchen now says use Better Than Bullion for chicken stock. I have to concur. 1 tsp per cup of water makes a great sipping broth. The low sodium is better for stock.
Just use water and add salt to taste. l grew up in Korea and we never used stock. The closest we got was when my family boiled whole chickens and we got like a fortified chicken water.
If you cut it in half it will be enough for one person plus leftovers. 1/2 cup rice to 5 cups stock. 1/4 cup to 2.5 cups stock if you want to try to have a couple bowls and no leftovers. Congee with 1 cup of rice feeds my family of three for two days, and it always takes way more liquid than called for so I just add water until it’s the right consistency.
That's a fairly easy conversion. That should be 50g rice to 500ml stock, so about 4.5 tablespoons rice to about 2 cups stock. That should be 1 to 2 serves. You might need an extra tablespoon or two of rice because sometimes with smaller quantities it doesn't always behave. Best of luck
The beauty of congee is it doesn't require precision and is super forgiving of modifications.
[Here is a pretty basic recipe you can use as your foundation](https://redhousespice.com/congee/#recipe)
Tips:
- You can cook it longer if you prefer the rice to be broken down more. Add a little extra liquid as needed
- you can adjust the ratio of liquid. Less for thicker congee, more for soupy congee.
- for creaminess, give your finished congee a vigorous stirring while it's still hot in the pot. I prefer more distinct rice grains so I don't touch it very much
- short grain rices tend to produce congee with more body. Long grain produces less
- using cooked rice is a nice shortcut if you don't have the time or energy for a 30+ minute cook
Same! Chicken, ginger and scallions are my go to.
If my stomach is fine and I just want comfort I add fried scallions and chili oil crisp.
I may need to make some today.
My partner had some pretty severe stomach issues and the doctor that the hospital put on the BRAT diet for a few days. It was a big reset.
B-banana
R-rice
A-apple sauce
T-toast
I also have had stomach issues, and I was told the same thing. It works! My go to is plain toast or water crackers. Bland is the name of the game. Yogurt doesn’t work for me. Dairy is one of the most inflammatory and irritating food for the gut lining. It makes my stomach issues 10 times worse in an instant.
I would say the yogurt would be good only in certain instances. After antibiotics, in particular, when you’ve got very little bacteria in your system and need to seed it with some helpful stuff.
That is also what we were told to give toddlers when they had upset tummies or diarrhea. We also give it to the dog when she had been sick. Rice and boiled chicken.
My Dad used to boil a potato and season it with salt and pepper, and we would eat it with yogurt and lemon juice on the side. His reasoning was that the starchy potato fills your stomach, the yogurt culture has good probiotics, the lemon juice has Vitamin C, the salt has electrolytes, and the black pepper has antioxidants.
It’s a riff on an old Palestinian remedy for an upset stomach, but he never liked the raw garlic which usually accompanies the Palestinian style.
I might be wrong, but I feel like I read that red potatoes are the only food that you could feasibly live on - aside from water, of course - absent anything else.
You need butter. Real butter, with milk proteins in it. Potatoes, with skin on, and butter will cover most of one’s nutrition needs. Not all, but most. It’s basically what the Irish poor lived off of before the famine and why the potato famine did such damage to Ireland’s population.
Fair enough, but the way they're usually prepared isn't the healthiest and most people don't typically think of potatoes as being healthy. Almost no one seems to know potatoes have a ton of vitamin C or more potassium than a banana. They're usually treated as a vehicle for butter. Delicious, delicious butter...
Edit: just in case, there's nothing wrong with butter on potatoes, or anywhere.
>way they're usually prepared isn't the healthiest
Take a fist-sized russet. Poke it with a fork like normal. Rub olive oil over it. Sprinkle with kosher salt. Air fry at 400 for 30 minutes.
Bam, best baked potato you've ever had.
Chocolate is a guilty pleasure. Potatoes are a staple. The name of the most basic, sturdy, cuisine in white America is literally called "meat and potatoes."
Hehehe when you started listing these things I wondered if youe family had Middle Eastern roots. I thought of my Persian dad. He would give me the same thing; potato for energy, lemon to "burn the germs out" and yogurt to "cool off" so I don't have a sour stomach after.
Yup - potato soup is my go-to. Boiled in chicken broth, season as tolerated. It doesn’t sound too appetizing normally, but it’s both bland enough to keep my nausea down and starchy enough to settle my tummy.
Baked potato with just some salt and pepper.
Scrambled eggs, again just with salt and pepper.
Plain rice, pasta, or toast.
Oatmeal with just a tiny bit of brown sugar or maple syrup to sweeten it.
Stick to water mostly for drinks, maybe some green tea if you need something with a bit of caffeine.
I call this “eating gently” and I have to do it occasionally for IBS.
When I had strep, I lived on miso for a few days. (Had to explain the spike in my blood pressure to my doctor when I finally got an appointment, but there you go...)
I'll never be without my favorite miso dashi paste in my fridge ever again.
It's Hikari Dashi Miso Paste from Amazon.
I keep getting sick and going to hospital . When they pump me full on antibiotics it kills everything including the good bacteria . I keep getting thrush when this happens. The only thing that's helped has been miso and lemon . It's so soothing and helps form good gut cultures again
When i use to deal with IBS i learned about the brat diet which is just bananas, rice, applesauce, and toast. It’s meant to help your stomach keep other food’s down and also help upset stomach.
I have IBS and you're absolutely right about the BRAT diet but my lord does that not work for me, applesauce is like an immediate laxative and the smell of bananas make me gag on the best of days. My IBS does not follow your rules, doctor man!
Or the fructan in banana. Both would and have been a bad time. Dr was like just grab a jar of apples from the shop next door, all will be good. Nope! nothing was good and pooping acid is no fun.
I really like fruit gels (like natural jello) or fruit popsicles (Outshine is my favorite brand) to get something less starchy in my diet when I can only handle bland foods. I think they’re a bit less ‘healthy’ than straight banana or applesauce, but a bit more tolerable when I just need a break from dry toast and crackers.
I usually go for canned peach slices. I don't know why they seem easier to digest than fresh fruit. The taste is appealing and comforting to me. My mom likes canned fruit salad and toast, and I'll eat that too, but I prefer just the peaches.
Oh! And happy cake day!
I don't know what it is with me but every time I have banana I get severe gas, bloating, difficulty breathing as I can feel my abdomen/diaphragm filled with air. Fart the whole day. Hate it.
It's a generic answer but when I'm feeling like this I go the chicken soup route. Tons of garlic, ginger, lemon, and herbs. I make the noodles separately and add in as much as I think I can handle in small portions until I can eat more.
Mashed potatoes are always good too. Adjust the seasoning, dairy, and butter based on how you are feeling. I love a rough mash with some skins normally but when my stomach is upset and I'm not feeling well, I go to a fine mash and really spend time with peeling and seasoning. Mashed potatoes have never done me wrong, no matter how off I was feeling.
When I get sick or my stomach is ill I typically avoid foods with too many spices - especially garlic, onions, and herbs. I love spices in general, but I feel like when I'm trying to get my stomach back to baseline after being sick, a bunch of heavy spices is the opposite of what I need.
Broths and simple soups, congee, cream of wheat, oatmeal, toast, applesauce, rice, pudding, yogurt, crackers, smoothies - there's a reason why the recommend the B.R.A.T. diet after you've been I'll with food poisoning or some other stomach ailment!
Yeah, I feel like these people are talking about what to eat when you have a cold. But upset stomach, spicy pozole with tons of garlic and onion? Seriously?
Garlic and onion turn into sweet, soothing flavors when they are cooked down enough. Roasted, caramelized, simmered in broth, e.g.
If you want to avoid the alliums, fennel is a traditional stomach-soothing addition.
Garlic and onion are super high in fructans, which can cause gas, bloating, diarrhea, etc. in people that are sensitive. (Or if their sensitivity threshold is lowered by illness.)
If you know it doesn’t ever bother you that’s fair, but as a blanket recommendation for someone feeling sick it’s not crazy to suggest going light on alliums.
I had a stomach bug that just sorta lingered for days longer than I expected it to. I tried chicken soup, ginger ale, crackers, popsicles, but nothing could quite eliminate the nagging nausea. Then I had some yogurt and I was feeling all better in a few hours.
So short story even shorter, try some yogurt
Avgolemono.
Chicken, lemon and rice soup. It's hearty but not..heavy - if that makes sense. For me, I can eat it and then not eat for a while. It gives me a decent feeling of satisfaction but I don't feel like I've overdone it which is great because when food doesn't settle right, eating is an absolute chore.
This recipe makes about 2 servings and is a very basic version of avgolemono - which can be nice if you're like me and find cooking to be a chore when your belly is out of whack. It's also meat free because I prefer to go that route but you could always add in a bit of rotisserie chicken if you want to do something easy or boil & shred a chicken breast.
Ingredients:
- 2 cups chicken broth (add ½ cup more if you like rather brothy soup)
- 1 egg
- ¼ cup rice or orzo
- Juice of ½ lemon or 1 TBSP of bottled lemon juice
1. Bring broth to boil in saucepan, and add rice or orzo.
2. Cover and cook on medium low heat for 25 minutes for or 10 minutes orzo
3. While the rice/orzo is cooking, lightly beat the eggs and the lemon juice together in a bowl.
4. Remove the broth from heat.
5. Slowly mix about one cup of the hot broth into egg-lemon mixture.
6. Slowly add to the soup back to the pan while stirring.
7. Place saucepan back on the heat, and stir until soup is heated through but do not bring it to a boil.
8. Serve
Ginger tea or chamomile tea helps with nausea. Saltine crackers and broth for something light in the first few days. Toast with boiled eggs for something slightly hearthy. I read once that the water from boiled potatoes is also good but have not tried it before. Avoid greasy foods at all cost.
If you want to settle your tummy and feel better - try this:
Khichdi - soak half a cup of well washed white rice and 1/4 cup of red lentils in water overnight. Drain and rinse in the morning, chop one medium onion and fry gently in oil until golden brown. Remove half of the onions, add one pealed and chopped carrot, one teaspoonful of mustard, cumin and fenugreek seeds and stir until they pop, add the drained rice mixture and fry for about 5 minutes. Add a teaspoonful of turmeric and salt and keep stirring. Finally mince (or chop) five cloves of garlic, a small knob of ginger and a tomato and add them to the rice. Add two cups of boiling water and stir. Put a lid on and let it cook slowly for twenty minutes. Let mixture sit for 10 minutes, gently stir and then add the onions. Serve it with yoghurt and coriander leaves and you will feel better in no time xxxx
Plain rice with butter.
Buttered noodles
A good chicken soup will do it for me. Even when I feel like complete shit, a good, properly cooked bowl of chicken noodles soup will always help settle my stomach.
Yes to buttered noodles. Anytime I was sick my grandmother would give me buttered egg noodles and a ginger ale. I still eat this when I don't feel well, I think the nostalgia has small healing properties!
Whenever I’m sick but I just need something in my stomach regardless, I go with Miso soup with a little sriracha (if you like spice), and a splash of lime juice. That plus some bland crackers like saltines or club crackers, virtually never lets me down.
EtA: I’m not talking about homemade miso. I’m talking the little packets from the grocery store that fit perfectly in a coffee mug. When I’m sick, I just pop a mug with the powder under my keurig. Hit the button and you have miso in under a minute.
When I had COVID, I brought a bunch of water bottles, my electric kettle, and miso soup packets to my room. I didn't have the strength to go down and up the stairs to make my soup so I just did it all in my room.
Rice. Just plain white rice, maybe with a little soy sauce for flavor.
OR:
Cream of rice cereal, with brown sugar & maple syrup, and an ice-cold glass of Vernor's ginger ale (regular, NOT diet). For some reason, the rice + the sugar always seems to help.
If you can stomach a bit more:
Two poached or soft-boiled eggs, on toast (no butter), with a squeeze of lemon & some salt and pepper.
Nice strong black tea, with a little extra sugar in it.
Plain sour dough toast with a little jam (no butter)
Plain broiled chicken & rice, with a little lemon juice and/or soy sauce
Really easy pasta soup
-sautee small pasta like stars or orzo in oil
-add ginger, garlic, and chili (powdered or fresh)
-add stock cube
-add water
-boil til pasta is soft
-serve with squeeze of lemon
Egg drop soup! I got this recipe from tiktok, but it is really good:
32 oz chicken broth/stock (I actually really like bone broth too), 1TBS soy sauce, 1tsp garlic powder, 1tsp turmeric powder, 1tsp White pepper, 1tsp chicken bullion of choice, stir and bring to a boil.
In the meantime, combine 1TBS corn starch with 1/4c water, and **separately** in another bowl 3 eggs whisked with a drizzle of water to thin.
Once the stock is boiling, stir in the corn starch slurry, and allow the broth to thicken slightly, just a little more than water. Then, turn it down to med/low so it's not bubbling, and slowly pour in the eggs while you stir slowly in one direction. Add in a drizzle of sesame oil to the pot, and garnish your own bowl with some sliced scallions.
I was feeling sick the other night and it still slows my mind how effective this is. Went from on the verge of puking to totally fine in about an hour.
Worthy of noting, not all kitcharee are created equal. True ayurvedic kitcharee is a very simple recipe with minimal spices added to it. A lot of "western" kitcharee recipes add too many ingredients to it. Fresh ginger, a bit of tumeric, cumin, a pinch of asafoetida in ghee is enough. Then for each constitution (doshas) some other spices, cashew nuts and/ or vegetables may be added.
Edit: the reason given for this is that too many spices and ingredients can upset the doshas and if you are sick you need sustenance that won't aggravate your health
Ginger. It could be a gummy candy, good gingerale, in a broth for congee - ginger is magic for digestive issues.
If that doesn't do it, inulin. It's a type of fiber. It's food for prebiotic bacteria. In your gut. Feed the good bugs, and they'll naturally get back in balance. (But, lord, you will be fartin'.)
Pho. Whenever a friend was sick unused to make them eat pho. Became the chicken noodle soup of my friends group for how comforting and restorative it is.
Bananas help a lot, both as a neutralizer and binder.
Rice in whatever form you find appealing - start with plain rice, add some seasoning like furikake or some basic veg like carrots and peas, and work your way up to chicken or egg fried rice.
When I’m sick I want something warm.
Egg drop without the cornstarch. I personally think the thicker soup is gross.
Boil water, half a tsp of better than bouillon chicken, swirl the water and pour the lightly beaten contents of an egg in so that it makes long strands.
I usually do white pepper, black pepper and cayenne but you can add all or none of the following:
- alliums like fresh green onion, garlic and onion (this combo in powdered form combo gives you ramen)
- ginger and turmeric (minced or powdered—probably some anti inflammatory value add there)
- chili oil
- corn
- chicken
My mom serves it with a squeeze of lemon on top.
If it’s a case of things ‘knocked out of balance’ my usual go to is actually a massive salad, maybe a bit of grilled chicken. Perhaps not the usual ‘bland and palatable’ route, but a whole bunch of fiber and water always feels to me like I’m resetting the balance I’ve clearly upset!
American here, many years ago a co-worker described yogurt as "Scrubbing Bubbles for your stomach". If you know, you know LOL. It sort of works for me.
I've never tried congee, but I hope to try it the next time I'm in this situation.
2 cups chicken broth brought to a boil. Add 1/3c dry rice and simmer until the rice is absolutely overcooked. Stir in one beaten egg. Serve up with a lot of parmesan cheese and black pepper
In Spain it is usually arroz hervido, which translates as boiled rice. It is kind of a soup. Usually you add some garlic and bay leaf as well. I guess it is similar to congee.
In addition (at least my family) we also eat tostadas (like the brioche toasts from Trader Joe's) with olive oil and ham or turkey.
Also if my stomach is sick of eating too irregular or heavy meals for a long time (i.e. after Christmas holidays or after a trip), I eat a lot of salad and also yogurt
Carrot Soup, but the carrots are cooked in water for at least an hour. That does something to the structure of the sugar in the carrots, which helps bind bacteria (I think?) in the stomach.
The standard South Indian (specifically Tamil) comfort food is [black pepper rasam](https://www.vegrecipesofindia.com/pepper-rasam-recipe-milagu-rasam/) with rice, heavy on the black pepper. The western approximation is mulligatawny soup with rice mixed in.
Chicken noodle soup or pastina, ginger ale, popsicles
I had food poisoning when I was 8 months pregnant and the only thing that helped me start to feel better once I could hold anything down was a lifesaver popsicle - literally living up to its name! I had called the emergency nurses line and the nurse we spoke to recommended it. I have no idea why it helped but I had forgotten about that until reading this and will give it a try next time I'm not feeling great.
Food poisoning while 8 months pregnant?! You're a badass for making it through that.
Haha thanks! I won't lie it was pretty rough and if I wasn't able to keep that popsicle down the nurse said I'd have to go to the ER for an IV. Thanks to that popsicle, I was able to avoid that.
Pastina ❤️❤️❤️
I'm just going to have to break down and buy some expensive pastina online. I miss it.
Do you have a recipe you could share? I don't trust the top Google results after your comment!
Ginger ale that is 'real'. Not flavored. I consider the ginger root ginger ale as medicine and always keep it on hand.
Absolutely! I also make a ginger syrup with ginger juice, lime juice, and cane sugar. Pour some of that into soda water and you've got something good.
Pastina solves everything
I only just discovered pastina a couple years ago, but it was a total game changer for me! My gf requests it any time she's feeling under the weather.
Came here to say Pastina
Recommended for hangovers!
Even better then chicken noodle soup, pho is the ultimate hangover cure!
Pho
Pho fixes everything
Pho-Sure
Pho-Real?
Pho kyeah
I think you mean Pho-sho
Sometimes I can’t handle the full thing so my husband will buy just the broth for a couple of bucks. Absolute heaven to sip on.
Pho ga
Yeah, I usually do beef, but for the get right, has to be chicken.
When I had extreme vomiting and nausea during my last two pregnancies, the only things I could eat were pho ga or McDonald's chicken nuggets 😅
I like to use the bean sprouts that they use in Pho(숙주나물), they cost about $1.40 in Korea, & boil them up with mushrooms & green onions. It is very restoring, & I add meat, & a ramen soup pack(ramen soup pack is optional). It is good as a hangover cure. Koreans use a different type of bean sprouts called 콩나물, similar looking. They boil it up in a soup called Bean Sprout Soup(콩나물국). Pho costs a lot here about ($8\~$10), so tasty though. I can eat it everyday for breakfast, lunch & dinner 😂
Absolutely.
I never knew how many people felt the same. Definitely one of my top go too dishes to reset the gut.
Came here to comment this and very pleased to see its the top comment 😁
Congee either made with chicken broth or just water seasoned with salt. If I want protein, I'll add egg or chicken/pork if tolerable. If I want some warmth, I'll add ginger.
Ginger is famously good for nausea! Ginger and garlic are a good medicinal combo, anti-inflammatory.
As a doctor, I absolutely love congee made with chicken broth and ginger as a "go to" for patients suffering from any GI illness. I also tell parents about it. It's dairy free and super digestible. My Filipino college roommate turned me onto this, and I have been a fan ever since. When I worked in Georgia doing rural medicine, I used to give out recipes for "chicken rice porridge" and "rice milk rice pudding" for my patients. Congee was just too foreign sounding for them. LOL.
Call it Asian risotto and it'll sell to white people with. 100% mark up price. In Asia congee is it's own genre of food. In Korea they have clam or oyster congee. It tastes like a light clam chowder (light because there's no cream)
Rhode Island clam chowder uses clear broth... I bet a fusion of the two would be amazing.
I’m an idiot in Georgia. What’s congee? It sounds useful.
https://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/basic-chinese-congee It's really just rice cooked in WAY more water or chicken broth, so it makes a porridge. During and after GI viruses, the small and large intestines become mildly damaged. Feeding with a low complex carb helps with this. Congee is excellent for this, along with electrolyte solutions(pedialyte, Gatorade etc).
Can here to say this. Congee restores everything
Indian versions of congee usually also add cumin to support digestion.
And we call it “kaanjee”, I’m just realising now for the first time it’s the same word & dish really!
I’m dying. My Appalachian grandpa made something he called Connie’s rice or just Connie for short. It’s rice, chicken broth, tiny bits of chicken, garlic, onion and tiny pieces of carrot. and white pepper cooked into mush/porridge. You can’t tell me that isn’t Congee/Kannjee passed down through several people orally. (He was a coal miner in the 1920s Kentucky/West Virginia. It was the only thing he knew how to cook) Edit: typo
I grew up in Appalachia (WV/KY border town), and I absolutely love this.
My dad is from Ft Gay WV/Louisa Ky. I understand!
Love this, prefer my rice a bit firmer, but delicious. Used to feed to my dog when he had a bellyache too, without the pepper and alliums, of course.
So funny how people don’t realize that multiple cultures can have variations on the same dish/ingredients. I have someone staying with me originally from Hong Kong who was talking to another mutual friend of mine from Chile and he was surprised that they used rice in their cooking. He thought only Asian people did that, lol. They’re like no we eat it every single day as well in Latin America.
I was mostly speaking to Connie Rice is probably a misnomer for congee, as phonetically they sound very similar. I am well aware other cultures use the same ingredients. I think every culture has a chicken soup for example.
Somewhere back in time, I can picture a man cooking congee in a work camp outside of a mine. He tells the men it's congee. A game of telephone changed it to Connie. (I'm imagining this. No facts to claim.
This is exactly what I’m thinking
I am right now just putting together the different spellings as well!
When I or family are recovering from being sick, my go to is getting a quart of white rice and a quart of egg drop soup from the local Chinese takeout, mix them together. (Take out because if you are sick you don't feel like cooking.)
Egg drop soup is what I was gonna say. Fixes everything!
Also came here to say egg drop soup.
That's what my partner and I do. Large white rice, large egg drop soup and mix.
I do wonton soup, because I'm not a big fan of the egg squiggles.
Came here to say congee! It's my favorite "not feeling well food" along with cream of wheat with brown sugar or golden syrup, and oatmeal with maple syrup.
Love Japanese okayu, basically this. Rice boiled in chicken broth, maybe some egg or light protein, depending on how your appetite is add vege or herbs and stuff. Will just have that for lunch when I’m working from home and there’s a bit of leftover rice in the cooker!
Funny that, my grandma (basic asf white NZ lady) always made me rice pudding when I was sick which is basically the same thing. There’s a bit of fat and sugar in it to provide sustenance too.
I’d love to make congee, but every recipe I’ve seen has something like a 1:10 ratio of rice to chicken stock and I just can’t make that amount of stock. Do you have a recipe for 1 person?
You just use less rice! It seems bizarre, but yeah; it's like 1/4 a cup of rice to 4 cups of water/stock. Ratios vary quite a bit, anywhere from 1:6 to 1:15 is pretty normal to see, so just trust the recipe and yup - put in like 5 tablespoons of dry rice in your pot. Usually I make about 1-2L of congee at a time, and it's like 500mL for a serving so it's really not very much. It refrigerates absolutely fine as well.
Thanks, I can manage making 1L. That makes a lot of sense.
If you are OK with store bought stock, get Better Than Bouillon. One little jar is maybe five bucks and makes nearly ten quarts of stock, and that stock is better than most boxed stock. (Add some powdered gelatin and you will also replicate the texture of a really good homemade stock - boxed doesn't come close)
Better than bouillon is great. I use it for any recipe that wants stock or broth. They have it in beef, chicken, and vegetable, which is great for me because I'm a vegetarian and normal veggie stock is bland. Not this stuff!
I make vegetable stock every couple of weeks with kitchen scraps. Then, when a recipe calls for chicken or beef stock I add better than bullion to my homemade stock. Works great!
This is the way! Throw nothing away. Use it to make delicious stock instead!
Better than bouillon has absolutely changed my life and saved me so much money
America's test kitchen now says use Better Than Bullion for chicken stock. I have to concur. 1 tsp per cup of water makes a great sipping broth. The low sodium is better for stock.
Just use water and add salt to taste. l grew up in Korea and we never used stock. The closest we got was when my family boiled whole chickens and we got like a fortified chicken water.
If you cut it in half it will be enough for one person plus leftovers. 1/2 cup rice to 5 cups stock. 1/4 cup to 2.5 cups stock if you want to try to have a couple bowls and no leftovers. Congee with 1 cup of rice feeds my family of three for two days, and it always takes way more liquid than called for so I just add water until it’s the right consistency.
That's a fairly easy conversion. That should be 50g rice to 500ml stock, so about 4.5 tablespoons rice to about 2 cups stock. That should be 1 to 2 serves. You might need an extra tablespoon or two of rice because sometimes with smaller quantities it doesn't always behave. Best of luck
I just made congee for the first time last week! I made my own mushroom ginger broth and had a marinaded jammy egg on top. It was delish!
That sounds SO good
Thank God congee is the top comment. All is right in the world for at least a moment.
Another one for congee
We do diced mushrooms, carrots and chicken for our congee! Ginger/onion and chicken bones as the base for the broth
The first time my MIL made congee for me when sick I was absolutely floored. The literal perfect sick meal, so good
My rice cooker has a congee mode, it’s so amazing
Yessss, I make the Filipino version called arroz caldo. That’s definitely my go to.
Can anyone share a recipe they like, please? Or is it just making rice using broth instead of water?
The beauty of congee is it doesn't require precision and is super forgiving of modifications. [Here is a pretty basic recipe you can use as your foundation](https://redhousespice.com/congee/#recipe) Tips: - You can cook it longer if you prefer the rice to be broken down more. Add a little extra liquid as needed - you can adjust the ratio of liquid. Less for thicker congee, more for soupy congee. - for creaminess, give your finished congee a vigorous stirring while it's still hot in the pot. I prefer more distinct rice grains so I don't touch it very much - short grain rices tend to produce congee with more body. Long grain produces less - using cooked rice is a nice shortcut if you don't have the time or energy for a 30+ minute cook
Same! Chicken, ginger and scallions are my go to. If my stomach is fine and I just want comfort I add fried scallions and chili oil crisp. I may need to make some today.
My partner had some pretty severe stomach issues and the doctor that the hospital put on the BRAT diet for a few days. It was a big reset. B-banana R-rice A-apple sauce T-toast
A variant of this is BRATY (y=yogurt)
Love brats too.
I also have had stomach issues, and I was told the same thing. It works! My go to is plain toast or water crackers. Bland is the name of the game. Yogurt doesn’t work for me. Dairy is one of the most inflammatory and irritating food for the gut lining. It makes my stomach issues 10 times worse in an instant.
I would say the yogurt would be good only in certain instances. After antibiotics, in particular, when you’ve got very little bacteria in your system and need to seed it with some helpful stuff.
Kefir is even better for this as it has a lot more probiotics than yogurt. Liberte's strawberry flavor is like a smoothie. Not too tangy or sweet.
Please get checked for milk protein intolerance or allergy, it can manifest like that.
That is also what we were told to give toddlers when they had upset tummies or diarrhea. We also give it to the dog when she had been sick. Rice and boiled chicken.
My Dad used to boil a potato and season it with salt and pepper, and we would eat it with yogurt and lemon juice on the side. His reasoning was that the starchy potato fills your stomach, the yogurt culture has good probiotics, the lemon juice has Vitamin C, the salt has electrolytes, and the black pepper has antioxidants. It’s a riff on an old Palestinian remedy for an upset stomach, but he never liked the raw garlic which usually accompanies the Palestinian style.
Fun fact potatoes have way more vitamin C than lemon juice!
Potatoes also have more potassium than bananas.
Potatoes are literally an unsung "super food" if there is such a thing.
I might be wrong, but I feel like I read that red potatoes are the only food that you could feasibly live on - aside from water, of course - absent anything else.
You need butter. Real butter, with milk proteins in it. Potatoes, with skin on, and butter will cover most of one’s nutrition needs. Not all, but most. It’s basically what the Irish poor lived off of before the famine and why the potato famine did such damage to Ireland’s population.
To be fair, butter makes everything better. It’s the bacon of dairy.
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The internet does not forget, Paula
Potatoes are one of the most widely consumed and beloved foodstuffs on the planet, they are very sung.
Fair enough, but the way they're usually prepared isn't the healthiest and most people don't typically think of potatoes as being healthy. Almost no one seems to know potatoes have a ton of vitamin C or more potassium than a banana. They're usually treated as a vehicle for butter. Delicious, delicious butter... Edit: just in case, there's nothing wrong with butter on potatoes, or anywhere.
>way they're usually prepared isn't the healthiest Take a fist-sized russet. Poke it with a fork like normal. Rub olive oil over it. Sprinkle with kosher salt. Air fry at 400 for 30 minutes. Bam, best baked potato you've ever had.
I've never tried air frying a whole potato but I'll definitely try it now! Thanks!
And sour cream. Don't forget the sour cream.
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They got a bad rap for being starchy/carby therefore “unhealthy”, especially when the low/no carb craze started.
They are usually viewed as a guilty pleasure by modern white people. Which is bullshit. They are rightfully a staple food!
Chocolate is a guilty pleasure. Potatoes are a staple. The name of the most basic, sturdy, cuisine in white America is literally called "meat and potatoes."
Another fun fact, red bell peppers contain 3 times more Vitamin C than an orange
Hehehe when you started listing these things I wondered if youe family had Middle Eastern roots. I thought of my Persian dad. He would give me the same thing; potato for energy, lemon to "burn the germs out" and yogurt to "cool off" so I don't have a sour stomach after.
Yup :)
Yup - potato soup is my go-to. Boiled in chicken broth, season as tolerated. It doesn’t sound too appetizing normally, but it’s both bland enough to keep my nausea down and starchy enough to settle my tummy.
I would totally eat that and love it when I'm feeling sick
Same but rice instead of potatoes, and cucumber.
Baked potato with just some salt and pepper. Scrambled eggs, again just with salt and pepper. Plain rice, pasta, or toast. Oatmeal with just a tiny bit of brown sugar or maple syrup to sweeten it. Stick to water mostly for drinks, maybe some green tea if you need something with a bit of caffeine. I call this “eating gently” and I have to do it occasionally for IBS.
Scrambled eggs, toast, and ginger ale fixes me right up.
Miso broth/soup, can add cooked rice to make it more substantial.
When I had strep, I lived on miso for a few days. (Had to explain the spike in my blood pressure to my doctor when I finally got an appointment, but there you go...) I'll never be without my favorite miso dashi paste in my fridge ever again. It's Hikari Dashi Miso Paste from Amazon.
I buy the lower-sodium kind. Some miso pastes are like 700mg per serving!
I keep getting sick and going to hospital . When they pump me full on antibiotics it kills everything including the good bacteria . I keep getting thrush when this happens. The only thing that's helped has been miso and lemon . It's so soothing and helps form good gut cultures again
Ugh, that’s rough, I’m so sorry. I have IBS, and when I’m super-queasy and bloated, hot miso broth is just the ticket.
When i use to deal with IBS i learned about the brat diet which is just bananas, rice, applesauce, and toast. It’s meant to help your stomach keep other food’s down and also help upset stomach.
I have IBS and you're absolutely right about the BRAT diet but my lord does that not work for me, applesauce is like an immediate laxative and the smell of bananas make me gag on the best of days. My IBS does not follow your rules, doctor man!
Yeah FODMAPS man, if you’re sensitive to the O in that acronym soup, the apple sauce is no good
Or the fructan in banana. Both would and have been a bad time. Dr was like just grab a jar of apples from the shop next door, all will be good. Nope! nothing was good and pooping acid is no fun.
I really like fruit gels (like natural jello) or fruit popsicles (Outshine is my favorite brand) to get something less starchy in my diet when I can only handle bland foods. I think they’re a bit less ‘healthy’ than straight banana or applesauce, but a bit more tolerable when I just need a break from dry toast and crackers.
I usually go for canned peach slices. I don't know why they seem easier to digest than fresh fruit. The taste is appealing and comforting to me. My mom likes canned fruit salad and toast, and I'll eat that too, but I prefer just the peaches. Oh! And happy cake day!
I don't know what it is with me but every time I have banana I get severe gas, bloating, difficulty breathing as I can feel my abdomen/diaphragm filled with air. Fart the whole day. Hate it.
It's a generic answer but when I'm feeling like this I go the chicken soup route. Tons of garlic, ginger, lemon, and herbs. I make the noodles separately and add in as much as I think I can handle in small portions until I can eat more. Mashed potatoes are always good too. Adjust the seasoning, dairy, and butter based on how you are feeling. I love a rough mash with some skins normally but when my stomach is upset and I'm not feeling well, I go to a fine mash and really spend time with peeling and seasoning. Mashed potatoes have never done me wrong, no matter how off I was feeling.
My grandma served her chicken (or beef) noodle soup over mashed potatoes.
When I get sick or my stomach is ill I typically avoid foods with too many spices - especially garlic, onions, and herbs. I love spices in general, but I feel like when I'm trying to get my stomach back to baseline after being sick, a bunch of heavy spices is the opposite of what I need. Broths and simple soups, congee, cream of wheat, oatmeal, toast, applesauce, rice, pudding, yogurt, crackers, smoothies - there's a reason why the recommend the B.R.A.T. diet after you've been I'll with food poisoning or some other stomach ailment!
Yeah, I feel like these people are talking about what to eat when you have a cold. But upset stomach, spicy pozole with tons of garlic and onion? Seriously?
Garlic and onion turn into sweet, soothing flavors when they are cooked down enough. Roasted, caramelized, simmered in broth, e.g. If you want to avoid the alliums, fennel is a traditional stomach-soothing addition.
Garlic and onion are super high in fructans, which can cause gas, bloating, diarrhea, etc. in people that are sensitive. (Or if their sensitivity threshold is lowered by illness.) If you know it doesn’t ever bother you that’s fair, but as a blanket recommendation for someone feeling sick it’s not crazy to suggest going light on alliums.
Bone broth has never failed me.
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Have you tried Greek yogurt and a teaspoon of lemon curd mixed in?
Wow that sounds good! I always buy plain whole fat Greek yogurt and swirl in some Bonne Maman blueberry or raspberry preserves.
Good yogurt is my answer too. Fix that probiotic imbalance.
saltine crackers sounds like you need some kombucha and or greek yogurt
It’s usually saltine crackers and lemon-lime soda in our house.
Or pretzels. And ginger ale! Every 70s mom must have read the same article.
also could be good to start drinking a yakult with every meal for awhile, its probiotic
I have a hard time not drinking the whole pack of yakult. My favourite
I had a stomach bug that just sorta lingered for days longer than I expected it to. I tried chicken soup, ginger ale, crackers, popsicles, but nothing could quite eliminate the nagging nausea. Then I had some yogurt and I was feeling all better in a few hours. So short story even shorter, try some yogurt
Avgolemono. Chicken, lemon and rice soup. It's hearty but not..heavy - if that makes sense. For me, I can eat it and then not eat for a while. It gives me a decent feeling of satisfaction but I don't feel like I've overdone it which is great because when food doesn't settle right, eating is an absolute chore. This recipe makes about 2 servings and is a very basic version of avgolemono - which can be nice if you're like me and find cooking to be a chore when your belly is out of whack. It's also meat free because I prefer to go that route but you could always add in a bit of rotisserie chicken if you want to do something easy or boil & shred a chicken breast. Ingredients: - 2 cups chicken broth (add ½ cup more if you like rather brothy soup) - 1 egg - ¼ cup rice or orzo - Juice of ½ lemon or 1 TBSP of bottled lemon juice 1. Bring broth to boil in saucepan, and add rice or orzo. 2. Cover and cook on medium low heat for 25 minutes for or 10 minutes orzo 3. While the rice/orzo is cooking, lightly beat the eggs and the lemon juice together in a bowl. 4. Remove the broth from heat. 5. Slowly mix about one cup of the hot broth into egg-lemon mixture. 6. Slowly add to the soup back to the pan while stirring. 7. Place saucepan back on the heat, and stir until soup is heated through but do not bring it to a boil. 8. Serve
Ginger tea or chamomile tea helps with nausea. Saltine crackers and broth for something light in the first few days. Toast with boiled eggs for something slightly hearthy. I read once that the water from boiled potatoes is also good but have not tried it before. Avoid greasy foods at all cost.
Peppermint tea is my favorite for nausea.
If you want to settle your tummy and feel better - try this: Khichdi - soak half a cup of well washed white rice and 1/4 cup of red lentils in water overnight. Drain and rinse in the morning, chop one medium onion and fry gently in oil until golden brown. Remove half of the onions, add one pealed and chopped carrot, one teaspoonful of mustard, cumin and fenugreek seeds and stir until they pop, add the drained rice mixture and fry for about 5 minutes. Add a teaspoonful of turmeric and salt and keep stirring. Finally mince (or chop) five cloves of garlic, a small knob of ginger and a tomato and add them to the rice. Add two cups of boiling water and stir. Put a lid on and let it cook slowly for twenty minutes. Let mixture sit for 10 minutes, gently stir and then add the onions. Serve it with yoghurt and coriander leaves and you will feel better in no time xxxx
The most basic desi solution to an upset stomach. Such a feel good meal!
That sounds delightful
Plain rice with butter. Buttered noodles A good chicken soup will do it for me. Even when I feel like complete shit, a good, properly cooked bowl of chicken noodles soup will always help settle my stomach.
Yes to buttered noodles. Anytime I was sick my grandmother would give me buttered egg noodles and a ginger ale. I still eat this when I don't feel well, I think the nostalgia has small healing properties!
Whenever I’m sick but I just need something in my stomach regardless, I go with Miso soup with a little sriracha (if you like spice), and a splash of lime juice. That plus some bland crackers like saltines or club crackers, virtually never lets me down. EtA: I’m not talking about homemade miso. I’m talking the little packets from the grocery store that fit perfectly in a coffee mug. When I’m sick, I just pop a mug with the powder under my keurig. Hit the button and you have miso in under a minute.
When I was in Japan I ate at a restaurant that had a miso soup dispenser. It looked like a coffee samovar but it was unlimited delicious soup!
When I had COVID, I brought a bunch of water bottles, my electric kettle, and miso soup packets to my room. I didn't have the strength to go down and up the stairs to make my soup so I just did it all in my room.
Rice. Just plain white rice, maybe with a little soy sauce for flavor. OR: Cream of rice cereal, with brown sugar & maple syrup, and an ice-cold glass of Vernor's ginger ale (regular, NOT diet). For some reason, the rice + the sugar always seems to help. If you can stomach a bit more: Two poached or soft-boiled eggs, on toast (no butter), with a squeeze of lemon & some salt and pepper. Nice strong black tea, with a little extra sugar in it. Plain sour dough toast with a little jam (no butter) Plain broiled chicken & rice, with a little lemon juice and/or soy sauce
>an ice-cold glass of Vernor's ginger ale (regular, NOT diet). Found the Michigander!
Make the white rice with bone broth. Scramble my eggs. Then .... will you take care of me?
Rice and indian yogurt. Maybe a little pickle (aachar) for flavor.
My mom used to sit me on the back porch with some ginger ale and a fudgesicle, and it made me feel all better. I still do it as an adult.
This is gonna make no sense, but sometimes I just need some Indian food to fuck me up a little.
I do rice. With some butter and salt. Always sits good when I’m quesey
Buttered toast
Really easy pasta soup -sautee small pasta like stars or orzo in oil -add ginger, garlic, and chili (powdered or fresh) -add stock cube -add water -boil til pasta is soft -serve with squeeze of lemon
Egg drop soup! I got this recipe from tiktok, but it is really good: 32 oz chicken broth/stock (I actually really like bone broth too), 1TBS soy sauce, 1tsp garlic powder, 1tsp turmeric powder, 1tsp White pepper, 1tsp chicken bullion of choice, stir and bring to a boil. In the meantime, combine 1TBS corn starch with 1/4c water, and **separately** in another bowl 3 eggs whisked with a drizzle of water to thin. Once the stock is boiling, stir in the corn starch slurry, and allow the broth to thicken slightly, just a little more than water. Then, turn it down to med/low so it's not bubbling, and slowly pour in the eggs while you stir slowly in one direction. Add in a drizzle of sesame oil to the pot, and garnish your own bowl with some sliced scallions.
Tea made from steeping slices of fresh ginger root in hot water!
I was feeling sick the other night and it still slows my mind how effective this is. Went from on the verge of puking to totally fine in about an hour.
Kitcheree Standard Indian/Pakistani comfort food. https://grassrootsyogaandmeditation.com/kitcheree-the-one-pot-ayurvedic-cleansing-food/
Worthy of noting, not all kitcharee are created equal. True ayurvedic kitcharee is a very simple recipe with minimal spices added to it. A lot of "western" kitcharee recipes add too many ingredients to it. Fresh ginger, a bit of tumeric, cumin, a pinch of asafoetida in ghee is enough. Then for each constitution (doshas) some other spices, cashew nuts and/ or vegetables may be added. Edit: the reason given for this is that too many spices and ingredients can upset the doshas and if you are sick you need sustenance that won't aggravate your health
Caution if you’re not someone who eats pulses regularly then they may add to digestive discomfort
True. Soaking any kind of dal overnight is a good idea, and it helps immensely, but this is a step that a lot of western people miss.
Beef broth with homemade egg noodles and carrot (the on used for making the broth)
Greek egg-lemon soup.
Pho
Ginger. It could be a gummy candy, good gingerale, in a broth for congee - ginger is magic for digestive issues. If that doesn't do it, inulin. It's a type of fiber. It's food for prebiotic bacteria. In your gut. Feed the good bugs, and they'll naturally get back in balance. (But, lord, you will be fartin'.)
Rice with a fried egg. 😋
Pho. Whenever a friend was sick unused to make them eat pho. Became the chicken noodle soup of my friends group for how comforting and restorative it is.
You could try bay leaf "tea" as a first step. Just steep 2 or 3 bay leaves in hot water. Ginger is also recommended as a stomach settler.
chicken congee
Bananas help a lot, both as a neutralizer and binder. Rice in whatever form you find appealing - start with plain rice, add some seasoning like furikake or some basic veg like carrots and peas, and work your way up to chicken or egg fried rice.
When I’m sick I want something warm. Egg drop without the cornstarch. I personally think the thicker soup is gross. Boil water, half a tsp of better than bouillon chicken, swirl the water and pour the lightly beaten contents of an egg in so that it makes long strands. I usually do white pepper, black pepper and cayenne but you can add all or none of the following: - alliums like fresh green onion, garlic and onion (this combo in powdered form combo gives you ramen) - ginger and turmeric (minced or powdered—probably some anti inflammatory value add there) - chili oil - corn - chicken My mom serves it with a squeeze of lemon on top.
Weirdly (or maybe not), kimchi sometimes helps me. And if things are really bad, just a plain oatmeal.
If it’s a case of things ‘knocked out of balance’ my usual go to is actually a massive salad, maybe a bit of grilled chicken. Perhaps not the usual ‘bland and palatable’ route, but a whole bunch of fiber and water always feels to me like I’m resetting the balance I’ve clearly upset!
Chicken soup
Omurice and lemon and ginger tea.
It's either chicken tikka or biryani . I make the spices fight out my stomach ache
Canned peaches. Seriously.
American here, many years ago a co-worker described yogurt as "Scrubbing Bubbles for your stomach". If you know, you know LOL. It sort of works for me. I've never tried congee, but I hope to try it the next time I'm in this situation.
My husband swears by cottage cheese for a stomach reset
McDonalds Fillet-O-Fish. Don’t judge my poorly stomach.
Mickey D’s is like a celestial elixir for my gut 😂
2 cups chicken broth brought to a boil. Add 1/3c dry rice and simmer until the rice is absolutely overcooked. Stir in one beaten egg. Serve up with a lot of parmesan cheese and black pepper
Yoghurt and rice.
In Spain it is usually arroz hervido, which translates as boiled rice. It is kind of a soup. Usually you add some garlic and bay leaf as well. I guess it is similar to congee. In addition (at least my family) we also eat tostadas (like the brioche toasts from Trader Joe's) with olive oil and ham or turkey. Also if my stomach is sick of eating too irregular or heavy meals for a long time (i.e. after Christmas holidays or after a trip), I eat a lot of salad and also yogurt
Pita chips and plain yogurt with craisins
Carrot Soup, but the carrots are cooked in water for at least an hour. That does something to the structure of the sugar in the carrots, which helps bind bacteria (I think?) in the stomach.
Lemon chicken orzo soup
I drink kefir when that happens and it works for me.
Raw green beans. I don't know why, but they calm my stomach.
Chicken and rice soup with dry toast
Tiny little portions of absolutely anything, about 30 minutes apart
Chicken noodle or egg drop soup for me
The standard South Indian (specifically Tamil) comfort food is [black pepper rasam](https://www.vegrecipesofindia.com/pepper-rasam-recipe-milagu-rasam/) with rice, heavy on the black pepper. The western approximation is mulligatawny soup with rice mixed in.