How to make chicken soup

In fact, chicken soup is good for our health and nutritional supplement, especially for women who are weak or postpartum. Steamed chicken soup can better help them recover and produce milk. The following are different ways to cook it.

1. Chicken Soup with Codonopsis and Astragalus: Wash the chicken, chop it into pieces, blanch it, rinse it and drain it. Soak Codonopsis and Astragalus in water for 3-5 minutes, remove them, rinse them and drain them. Put all the ingredients into the inner pot of the electric pressure cooker and add 1.5 liters of water. Press the soup setting. Add appropriate amount of salt to season before eating.

2. Mushroom Chicken Soup: Wash and chop the local chicken into small pieces, blanch and remove; remove the stems of the mushrooms and soak them until soft, wash the red dates, wash and slice the ginger; put all the ingredients into a casserole, pour in cooking wine, add appropriate amount of water, bring to a boil and simmer on low heat for 1 hour; finally, add salt and MSG to taste.

3. Red Date and Yam Chicken Soup: Wash the chicken, chop it into small pieces, blanch it and take it out; wash the red dates, put the chicken, yam and red dates in a purple clay rice cooker and cook for 6 hours, then add salt and MSG to season.

4. Guiqi Chicken Soup: Wash and blanch the chicken first, then add water to another pot, put the chicken into the water and bring to a boil over high heat. Then add the astragalus and stew it with the chicken for 1 hour. Then add the angelica and cook for about 5 minutes. Add a little salt and MSG to season.

5. Ginkgo chicken soup: Wash the chicken, cut into pieces and set aside. Soak the ginkgo nuts in water until soft and set aside. Add appropriate amount of water to angelica, astragalus and wolfberry and bring to a boil. Simmer over low heat for half an hour, remove the residue and take the juice. Put the chopped chicken into the stew pot, pour in the medicinal juice, add ginkgo nuts and ginger, bring to a boil over high heat then simmer over low heat for 3 hours, add salt to taste.

6. Chicken soup in a clay pot: Cut the chicken into cubes, put it into a pot of cold water, add some slices of ginger, a few peppercorns, and one or two dried red peppers. When it boils, remove the charcoal fire, leave it on a low heat, and simmer it slowly on a charcoal stove. Add salt before eating.

7. Fungus Chicken Soup: Chop the chicken into small pieces and clean it. Soak dried black fungus for half an hour. Then wash it, remove the stems and cut into small pieces. Pour cold water into the pot, add chicken pieces, peppercorns, ginger slices, scallion segments, and cooking wine. Bring to a boil over high heat, skim off the foam, then turn to low heat and fry the chicken until it is 80% cooked, then pour in the washed black fungus. Add salt and simmer for 10 minutes before serving.