お粥かゆ

noun

rice porridge; congee; watery cooked rice

A soft, thin rice porridge often eaten when sick, as a light meal, or as a comfort food. The honorific prefix お is standard in polite speech.

• 風邪かぜを引ひいたときは、お粥かゆを食たべると体からだが温ぬくまる。

  When you catch a cold, eating rice porridge warms you up.

• 朝あさごはんに卵たまご入いりのお粥かゆを作つくった。

  I made rice porridge with egg for breakfast.