herbal chicken soup
4 steps, two hours, and you really do end up with a perfectly healing chicken soup. So so so good.
ingredients
1 organic free-range chicken
6 slices fresh ginger
8-10 dried jujubes / 2 carrots
10-12 dried longan
handful of goji berries
10 cups water
salt to taste
steps
Blanch the chicken: cover with cold water, bring to a boil for 3-5 minutes, then scoop out the cloudy foam ooor dump out the water, give the pot a quick rinse, and then add in fresh boiled water
Add longan, carrots, and ginger
Lower to a gentle simmer with the lid slightly ajar for 1.5-2 hours
Add the goji berries in the last 10 minutes so they don't go mushy
Season with salt at the end
