How to make Chinese Herbal Chicken Soup (药材鸡汤) | Healthy and Nutritious Soup

Chinese Herbal Chicken Soup
Making soups is one of the easiest dishes to make! However, you might not know which Chinese herbs to put together to make a yummy, nourishing soup.
My mom used to make herbal soup for me when I was growing up at least once a week. With this recipe, you will only need 6 simple ingredients. Just add everything together in a pot and boil!
Ingredients
3 chicken frames (1.5kg bones or 1 chicken)
1.2 litres water
Chinese herbs
2 tbsp wolfberry fruit (goji berries)
8 pieces astragalus roots
12 small dried scallops
12 dried Chinese dates (jujube fruit)
6 codonopsis roots
4 pieces Chinese yam
Method
1. Wash chicken frames with water. Rub with salt and wash off.
2. Rinse and drain dried herbs over running water to remove dirt.
3. Place all ingredients in pot with 1.2 litres water
4. Bring to boil (Induction cooker used in this video)
5. Reduce heat and simmer for 1- 1.5 hours (2 hours if over traditional hot stove)
6. Remove from heat
7. Skim fat from top
8. Serve as a clear soup
*This recipe yields 3 bowls of soup
Music credit: www.purple-planet.com

[@kayd.1755]

Nice recipe!

[@CarolTansKitchen]

Thanks :) just a simple one my mom taught me!

[@taimoorahmed8435]

Chinese Herbal Soup is very Helpful for coronavirus patients

[@CarolTansKitchen]

Taimoor Ahmed Really? My mom used to make chicken soup at least 3x a week when I was growing up 😅

[@MrChrisJ74]

Great recipe.. I thought you could have promoted yourself more to get subscribers tho... I've been searching for Chinese chicken soup as it's better that beef soup for diabetics and you came up top of results

[@CarolTansKitchen]

Chris haha thanks 😊 you can also use pork bones if you like ❤️

[@chonnget9913]

Where can I purchase the herbs at?

[@CarolTansKitchen]

Depends on where you are.. but those Chinese medicine shops or Asian groceries :)