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Silkie Chicken Soup

Healthy Chinese traditional Silkie chicken soup with red-dates, and dried small shitake mushrooms.

Chinese60 minhard4 servings
Silkie Chicken Soup

Ingredients

  • 1 silkie chicken
  • 3~4 L water
  • 10 to 12 red dates
  • 1 inch root ginger (, smashed )
  • 1 small cup of wolfberry (, optional )
  • salt (, to taste )
  • chopped green onion and coriander (, as needed )

Instructions

  1. Wash the silkie chicken carefully to remove the impurities.
  2. Add chicken in, place ginger, red dates and wolfberries. Load with 4 L water.
  3. Bring the content to a boiling. Remove any floats on the surface (skip this step if you are using a high pressure cooker). Slow durn the fire and simmer for 30 minutes.
  4. Add around 1.5 to 2.5 teaspoon of salt. Serve hot with chopped green onion and coriander as aromatics.