Ginseng Silkie Chicken Soup 花旗參竹絲雞湯

🧂 Ingredients

• 1 Silkie chicken

  approx. 900g
• 900 g Pork bones

  or use 1lb lean pork meat
• 20 g American ginseng
• 4 slices Ginger
• 50 g Red dates

  pitted
• 20 g Goji berries
• 1 ½ tsp Salt
• 2 L Water

Instructions

• 1 Chop silkie chicken into smaller pieces
• 2 In a large pot, put in silkie chicken pieces and pork bones. Add water to cover
  and bring to a boil. Turn off heat. This step is to cleanse the meat so that
  your soup can be free of any impurities and bone residue. You may want to scoop
  out the impurities and foam before pouring everything out so that it doesn’t
  stick to the meat
• 3 Pour into a colander and rinse clean with cold water
• 4 Soak ginseng, red dates and goji berries for 10 minutes to soften and to rinse
  off any dust
• 5 Remove the pits in the red dates Pits can cause heatiness and is often removed
  before cooking
• 6 In a clean pot, place silkie chicken, pork bones, ginseng, red dates, goji
  berries, ginger and 2 L of water. Bring to a boil and then turn heat down to low
• 7 Cook on low heat for 3 hours
• 8 Taste and add salt to suit your taste.
• 9 Serve
• 10 Silkie chicken and meat on bones can be eaten. It’s common to serve with soy
  sauce for dipping. I generally will not eat it and I add another 1.5L of water
  and make more soup for the next day.

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