Chicken-mushroom “Onban” / Courtesy of Samho Media

“Onban,” or rice served in warm meat broth, is a traditional dish from North Korea popular during the winter. Using high protein ingredients such as chicken broth and mushrooms, one can prepare a dinner easy for people with cancer to digest. Onban can be served cooled as well and it is odorless, making it perfect for patients who can become nauseous easily.

Ingredients (serves two)

You will need 180 grams of rice, 20 grams of button mushrooms, 20 grams of oyster mushrooms, 20 grams of celery, 80 grams of onion, and 10 grams of small green onions.

For the broth, you will need 80 grams of chicken meat, 5 grams of carrots, 5 grams of celery, 6 grams of kelp, 5 grams of soy sauce, 2 grams of cooking wine, salt, pepper , water and simple syrup.

Step by step

1. Steam the rice

2. Prepare the broth by boiling water with chicken, onion, celery and kelp. Add soy sauce, cooking oil and salt according to preference

3. Shred the cooked chicken meat

4. Tear the oyster mushrooms along its lining and chop the button mushroom into bite size pieces

5. Slice the celery, onion and carrot into thin pieces

6. Add the broth with the chicken meat and prepared vegetables and cook until the vegetables are cooked

7. Put the rice in a bowl and pour the broth without the vegetables. Place the cooked vegetables and green onion on top of the rice.