Easy chicken soup recipe with baby bok choy and honey dates

This is an easy chicken soup recipe with a few key ingredients slowly simmered to produce a flavorsome broth.

Baby bok choy is a green leafy vegetable that cook pretty fast so it is added to the soup at the final stage so as to not overcook it. There are many name variations to this little leafy vegetable such as bak choy and Shanghai green. In mandarin, it is known as 小白菜 (xiao bai cai).

Honey dates are bigger and sweeter than red dates. It is light brown in colour and looks as if it has a thin coat of icing sugar.

Honey dates. Source: By Dboxes (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 or GFDL],
via Wikimedia Commons

Picture of baby bok choy

For a more flavoursome soup, replace the water with soup stock. Choose a clear broth.

1 small chicken
600g baby bak choy (小白菜 xiao bai cai)
3 honey dates
2 slices of ginger
12 cups of water or stock
Pinch of salt

1. Wash the bak choy and cut lengthwise
2. Clean the chicken, cut into pieces and parboil
3. Bring the water to a boil
4. Add the chicken, ginger and honey dates
5. Bring to a boil and cook for 15 minutes
6. Lower heat and simmer for 1 1/5 hours
7. Add the bak choy and cook till it is done
8. Add salt before serving

Recipe link: http://www.homemade-chinese-soups.com/easy-chicken-soup-recipe.html