Healthy chicken soup with astragalus

This chicken soup with astragalus is a gentle and nourishing tonic soup.

It is cooked slowly over a long period of time using a chinese double-boiling jar.

Try to use kampong chicken or free range chicken if possible as chicken raised in a battery tend to have too much growth hormones.

If you don't have a double-boiling jar, you can still make this soup in a slow cooker or soup pot over the stove. It requires gentle low heat. Add the ingredients to cold water and bring everything to a boil and reduce the heat to low.

For over the stove cooking, you will need to use a bit more water to compensate for evaporation.

Ingredients
1 chicken thigh
4 slices of astragalus
8 red dates
1 tbsp chinese wolfberries
500ml water (only a gauge, amount of water depends on your soup pot)
salt

Directions

1. Cut chicken thigh into pieces
2. Parboil, wash and trim excess fats. Remove the skin
3. Wash and drain the chinese herbs (astragalus, red dates and goji fruits)
4. Core the red dates. Cut into halves
5. Place all ingredients in the double-boiling jar and add the water
6. Bring another big pot of water to boil, place the jar in it and steam for 1 hour
7. Add salt before serving

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