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Thursday, November 14, 2013

Variant of Chicken Soup

There are a wide variety of chicken soups, every household have its own recipe, sometime not just one but few recipes, depending on the ingredients.


Major Ingredients ( which are compulsory for cooking chicken soup ) :
1. Chicken, be it thigh/wing/drumstick/breast, boneless, cut/uncut, with/without gizzard/heart/liver  etc
2. Ginger, old/young, sliced/julienne
3. Sesame seed oil ( other type of vegetable oil would be less desirable )


Additional Ingredients ( which are not necessary, but preferred, usually can be added in combination of ) :

a. other meat
1. pork lean meat/liver 猪肉/, or
2. fish maw 鱼漂, or
3. scallop 干贝

b. mushrooms
1. Shiitake mushroom 香菇 ( Lentinula edodes ), and/or
2. button mushroom  蘑菇 ( Agaricus bisporus ), and/or
3. Judas’ ear 黑木耳 ( Auricularia auricula-judae ), and/or
4. white fungus白木耳 ( Tremella fuciformis )

c. wine
1. Shaoxing Rice Wine绍兴酒, and
2. Hakka wine 客家黄酒 or
3. Foochow red wine 福州红酒鸡

d. Chinese herbs
1. American ginseng 泡 ( Panax quinquefolius ), or
2. Chinese angelica 当归 ( Angelica sinensis ), with
3. Chinese date ( Ziziphus zizyphus ) and/or
4. wolfberries 枸杞 ( Lycium chinensis )

e.tc


Chicken soup is best having with hot rice or meesua/any other type of noodles





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