A series of quick dishes to warm your stomach in winter: Herbal Chicken Stew

Overview

Chicken hot pot, a hot pot with chicken as the main ingredient in Guangdong, is called by countless foodies every time the weather cools down! There are also many friends asking about how to cook chicken in the WeChat backend. Compared with Malatang, the focus of chicken pot is the free-range chicken itself. There is no need to prepare too many complicated side dishes and ingredients, so this is a heart-warming and stomach-warming dish that is very suitable to be prepared at home!

Tags

• home cooking
• quick dishes
• soup
• winter recipes
• angelica dahurica
• chicken
• chicken soup
• chuan gong
• codonopsis
• cordyceps flower
• huaishan
• wolfberry
• ginger
• protein

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 First, let’s deal with free-range chickens. At Chinese meat stalls in Toronto, you can easily buy clean and chopped free-range chicken. The quality of the chicken determines the height of the dish.

   

2. 2 Mix the pre-soaked cordyceps flowers, egg whites and chicken. Season lightly: salt, pepper and oyster sauce. The marinating time is about 30 minutes.

   

3. 3 If you like drunken chicken, you can add rice wine or sorghum wine in this step. The amount depends on personal preference. p.s. I added about 1 tael of 56-degree Wuliangye.

   

4. 4 As for the soup base, you can choose ready-made chicken soup on the market or make your own chicken soup, and add the previously prepared medicinal herbs and ginger slices. In terms of medicinal materials, firstly, you can choose medicine packages that have been prepared on the market, and secondly, visit a local Chinese medicine store (doctors will recommend medicinal formulas with different ingredients according to each person’s different constitution)

   

5. 5 When using canned chicken soup, remember to test the saltiness of the soup base in advance. Generally, I will use a 1:1 mixture of water and chicken soup. If you make your own soup, you can use 1500 ml of water, an old chicken (skinless) and 2-3 pork bones, and cook them together for 3-4 hours.

   

6. 6 While waiting for the soup base to boil, you can prepare the perfect companion for chicken - minced ginger and green onion! Ginger and green onion paste! Ginger and green onion paste!

   

7. 7 First grind the ginger into puree (those who don’t have a grinder can choose to chop it with a knife, but it must be chopped fine enough),

   

8. 8 Cut green onions into small pieces.

   

9. 9 Place the ginger on the bottom and the green onions on top in a small bowl, sprinkle with a spoonful of salt

   

10. 10 Then pour scalding hot oil over it.

    

11. 11 Gently stir it with a spoon and you've got this delicious dip.

    

12. 12 Here's a closer look. If you like excitement, you can prepare another wasabi soy sauce, which is also great for dipping the chicken!

    

13. 13 After the soup base is boiling, add about half a chicken to the soup base, cover it and cook for about 10 minutes. After you've finished half of it, add more heat to cook the remaining half.

    

14. 14 As for the wolfberry, soak it in pure water 10 minutes in advance, and then add it after the chicken is cooked. Don't cook wolfberry for a long time as it will become sour.

    

15. 15 Finally, come and smell the aroma through the screen!