How to Cook Perfect Chinese Herbal Chicken Soup (Dun Ji Tang)

Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day. Today I’m gonna show you a way to make a special dish, Chinese Herbal Chicken Soup (Dun Ji Tang). This is one of my favourite food recipe, this time i will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Chinese Herbal Chicken Soup (Dun Ji Tang) Recipe. So Simple Chinese Herbal Chicken Soup 爱心药材鸡汤. If you ever tried Chinese herbal soup before, you may not like the smell when purchasing your herbal mix even the smell during the simmer process.

You can have Chinese Herbal Chicken Soup (Dun Ji Tang) using 12 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Chinese Herbal Chicken Soup (Dun Ji Tang)

1. It’s 1 pc of Whole Chicken Leg (bone in).
2. You need 1 tsp of Salt.
3. Prepare 1.5 litres of Water (or as needed).
4. You need of Dun Ji Tang herbs;.
5. Make ready 6 g of Astragalus Root (Bei Chi 北芪).
6. It’s 15 g of Codonopsis (Dang Shen 党参).
7. Take 11 g of Chinese Yam (Huai Shan 淮山).
8. Prepare 23 g of Solomon's Seal (Yu Zhu 玉竹).
9. Prepare 23 g of Wolfberries (Goji Zi 枸杞子).
10. Make ready of Optional.
11. Prepare 20 g of Red Dates.
12. Make ready 20 g of Dried Longan.

My personal favorite winter soup is cooking these fine herbs with either chicken or pork.In the southern parts of China (particularly the Cantonese.Chinese herbs for chicken herbal soup: red dates, goji berries, angelica root, astragalus root, codonopsis root, Sichuan lovage rhizome, and American ginseng.I admit it can be really hard to gather all these different Chinese herbs unless you live in a city where you have easy access to Chinatown.

Chinese Herbal Chicken Soup (Dun Ji Tang) step by step

1. CHICKEN; rinse the chicken. Dry the chicken with kitchen towels and then salt it. Let it sit for 30 minutes..
2. STEW; In a pot, place in all the Herbs as well as Water and chicken. Bring it to a boil and then turn down the heat to a simmer. REMOVE any scum from the surface and let the soup cook for 1 hour or until the liquid has been reduced by half..
3. SERVE; turn off the heat, remove the chicken and let it rest for 10 minutes. Then, chop the chicken into serving size. Taste the soup to see if it needs to be seasoned. Serve in a bowl..

I prefer a stronger herbal taste in my soup so I added the rest of the other herbs and used the amount required according to a pre-packed herbal soup that I tried.Introducing Chinese Herbal Chicken Soup - a soup that heals the mind, body and soul.Slow cooker recipe and normal stovetop recipes are included.

Traditional Chinese Name: 清雞湯 (qīng jī tāng).One of the most basic Chinese chicken soups available.It is usually recommended by your Chinese herbalist, with minimalistic herbs and a whole chicken, it's a wonderfully delicious soup for children and adults.It is also served by quite a few local Chinese restaurants as their soup of the day 例汤 (li tang).The soup stock is made using bouillon cubes.