A chinese chicken soup recipe with milk? Weird right?
Hold it. Red dates and milk makes a good combination for nourishing the skin.
Also known as jujubes, red dates are widely considered as the "living vitamin pill" by the Chinese. It contains Vitamin B, C, E, P, phosphorus, calcium, iron and more.
Use skim milk if you are concerned about the fat content of full cream milk. Do not overboil.
Try to omit the ginger. Remove from soup before serving instead.
There are so few ingredients, this should be an easy chicken soup to make.
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Ingredients
1 free range chicken
1 litre chicken stock
1 litre fresh milk
5 red dates, cored
5g ginger slices
salt to taste
Directions
- Cut the chicken into big pieces and parboil.
- Place the parboiled chicken, red dates and ginger in a big soup pot or crockpot
- Add the chicken stock and milk
- Bring everything to a boil
- Lower heat quickly, cover and simmer for 2 hours
- Add salt to taste and serve
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