American Ginseng And Chicken Soup

Recipe: American Ginseng And Chicken Soup花旗参炖鸡汤

Serves: 2

Ingredients

Ingredients A 350g chicken (cornish game hen / silkie chicken) 600ml water Ingredients B 25g american ginseng（花旗参） 10g dried pilose asiabell root（党参） 20g radix astragali（北芪） 20g dried polygonthemum（玉竹） 5 red dates（红枣）

Ingredient C 20g goji berry（枸杞） Seasoning ¼ tsp. salt or to taste

Preparation
1. Cut chicken into serving size. Wash and rinse all the ingredients. Halve red dates or halve but do not cut through to the bottom.	2. Bring a small pot of water to a boil. Scald chicken pieces and let simmer for 5 minutes over low heat. Drain. Rinse the chicken pieces with tap water and set aside.	3. Place a stoneware or claypot bowl (with lid) inside of a larger pot or wok by supporting the internal bowl with steammer rack if needed. Fill the internal bowl with 600ml boiling water. Fill the external one with boiling water touches about half level of internal bowl.
4. Add ingredients B into the internal bowl.	5. Add chicken pieces.	6. Cover the internal bowl with lid.
7. Cover the external pot with lid. Simmer over high heat for 30 minutes or until water in the external pot bubbles. Reduce heat to low and continue simmer for 1:30 to 4 hours.	8. Add ingredient C (goji berry).	9. Then season with salt. Let simmer over low heat for another 15 minutes. Turn off the heat. Serve hot.

Notes

For your convenience, you can put ingredients B and C to cook at the same time. I prefer to cook go ji berry for not longer than 20 minutes becuase I do not want them to turn discolour and torn after long hours cooking.