This is another version of Herbal
Soup.I bought it from an expensive looking herbal shop named, HockHua Tonic
herbal shop. It is almost double the price of the previous packet I bought from
another herbal shoplot . So what’s in the box, Ren Shen, Hua Shan, Yu Zhu,
JiZhi, DangShen, Chuan Xiong, Chong Cao, Gan Cao, Dung Gui, not to forget they
have cooking instructions too.
I am using half the packet of ingredient
because the packet label it is for 4 person. Since I am making it for 2 person,
I would have to remove half. Having all in the soup might make it too bitter
for 2 person.
Ingredients
1 black chicken
½ pack herbal ingredient as
mentioned above
Prepare and cook
Parboil chicken 5 minutes, ensure
water covers the chicken
Remove impurities
Add herbal ingredients
Bring to boil 20minutes on medium
heat
Taste, add salt if required (2
teaspoon)
Low heat Boil 30 minutes, taste
again
Boil 30 minutes
Ready to serve
Don’t you think is tiring
checking on the soup every 30mins? Those days old folks keep saying they gotta
watch fire for the soup. Is this what they meant. I did this for this soup, checking every
30minutes. Aw … this is really so tiring! Next round of soup cooking, I am just
going to add salt after 1.5 hours of boiling.
Logically thinking, if we keep
soup boiling for the first 30minutes, the soup taste would be a little sweet,
if we add some salt, the taste would be balance. If we keep another 30 minutes
(total 1 hour), the soup taste would be sweeter, then you add salt again. . If
we keep another 30 minutes (total 1.5 hour), the soup taste would be even sweeter,
then you add salt again. Why trouble yourself? So my conclusion, I will only
add salt after 1.5 hours after boiling in future.
