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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-boiler.

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-boiler, 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 / dried goji fruits
1000ml water
salt

Directions

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

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