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/肝, 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 泡参 ( Panax quinquefolius ), or

2. Chinese angelica 当归 ( Angelica sinensis ), with

3. Chinese date 枣 ( 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