Wednesday, 22 October 2014

[Food] Wonderful Chicken Soup

Ingredient

  • One big chicken leg
  • Mushroom (香菇,新鲜和干的都可以)
  • One Chinese Date (Red) (红枣)
  • Some Wolfberry or Goji Berry (枸杞)
  • Half of a sweet corn (半个新鲜甜玉米)
  • One Chinese Yam (山药)
  • Ginger
  • Sichuan peppercorn (花椒)

Steps

Preparation
  • Clean everything
  • Dry mushroom should be put in hot water for about 10 minutes in advance
  • Cut chicken leg into small piece
  • Yam into small piece
Cook
  • Clear blood inside of chicken
    • Put some water in a pot. When water is getting warm, put chicken leg in the water to clear blood inside. Keep heating till water is boiling for a while, then take out the chicken leg, and replace with new boiled water in the pot.
  • Put in chicken again, as well as ginger, peppercorn, mushroom, date and wolfberry
  • Cook for half an hour then put sweet corn in
  • Cook for another half an hour then put yam in
  • Small gas to cook for more half an hour or an hour