Whole Chicken Soup with Five Treasures
A nourishing free-range chicken soup traditionally valued for supporting kidney health, preserving vital essence, strengthening the spleen, and promoting healthy fluid metabolism.
Ingredients
Free-range chicken (cleaned, cut into pieces, blanched, and rinsed)
1 (about 500 g)
Red dates (pitted and rinsed)
6
Dried longan flesh (rinsed)
100 g
Job's tears (rinsed)
50 g
Goji berries (rinsed)
30 g
Lotus seeds (cored and rinsed)
30 g
Salt
4 g
MSG
2 g
Chicken bouillon powder
2 g
Ginger slices
10 g
Instructions
1
Step 1
Pit the red dates, core the lotus seeds, and rinse them. Rinse the dried longan, Job's tears, and goji berries.
2
Step 2
Clean the chicken, cut it into pieces, blanch to remove the blood, and rinse.
3
Step 3
Place all the ingredients and ginger slices in a clay pot, add water, bring to a boil over high heat, then reduce to low heat and simmer for 3 hours until the chicken is cooked through. Season to taste.
