How about having a bowl of steamy hot nutritious Silkie (black chicken) tonic soup for tonight’s dinner?
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Recipe for Black Chicken Soup (滋补乌鸡汤)
Silkie, or another name which is more commonly known as, black chicken. Black chicken is often used to cook in soup with Chinese herbs as it claims to be more nutritious (higer in dietary minerals) and less fat content. Silkie is whole black from its skin to even the bones. The meat is more greyish colour. Basically, beside the colour and invisible high values of nutrients, the taste and texture of meat has no much difference, to me. However, some say that the meat is not just leaner, but also softer.
Taste of this tonic soup was pleasant. It was fragrant, flavoursome with natural sweetness in the palate. Adding some Hua Diao wine is important to enhance the taste of the soup. This soup is healthy and beneficial for all in the family.
Black Chicken Soup 滋补乌鸡汤 Ingredients
- 1 silkie aka black chicken, skinned, removed head and feet, quartered
- Slabs of salt and ground white pepper
- 1/2 tablespoon of Hsao Hsing Hua Diao rice wine (绍兴花雕酒)
- 6 cups of water, 50% filled in a large pot (about 1500ml)
Black Chicken Soup 滋补乌鸡汤 Chinese Herbal Ingredients
- 20 grams of Ginseng (人参) or Codonopsis Pilosulae “Dang shen” (黨參)
- 15 grams of Wolfberries, about 1 tablespoon (枸杞)
- 10 grams of Chinese Angelicae Root “Dang gui” (当归)
- 5 grams of Rhizoma “Chuan xiong” (川芎) *pic on right
- 6 grams of Liquorice Root (甘草) *pic on lower right
- 10 gram of Dried Longan (龙眼肉干)
Black Chicken Soup 滋补乌鸡汤 Ingredients Cooking Method
1) Boil a pot of water over medium – high heat.
2) When boiled, add in chicken and Chinese herbs. Bring all ingredients to a boil again. Then, reduce heat to low fire, and simmer for 1 – 1.5 hour.
3) Add rice wine right before heat off. Stir briefly to combine. Serve hot.
Calorie of a regular portion of Black Chicken Soup with quartered skinned chicken meat counts about 280kcal.
Tips: Amount of Chinese herbs used should be in moderate. Get these herbs from Chinese medicine/ herbal shop, tell shop keeper to prepare the right amount for you by telling them your serving amount of black chicken soup, if it is difficult for you to gauge.
* If you think ginseng is too expensive, replace it with Dang Shen which is also a kind of superior herb resembles ginseng and the therapeutic properties are similar. Just that it is not as expensive, and its flavour is not as intense as ginseng. *pic on right
If you like this dish, you might want to try my other soup recipes
Salted Vegetable and Tofu Soup (咸菜豆腐排骨汤) : Home Warm Soup for Our Family
Flu Season Herbal Tea (Easy Brew) 感冒季节花茶
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Thanks for the Black Chicken Soup recipe. I have one of those critters thawing and was looking for recipes. I’m missing a couple of the herbals though, so this soup will have to wait for the next chicken. This is Los Angeles, so they’re all on available on aisle-2 at one of the groceries over on Valley.
Your picture, though, was just a reddish black shadow – too bad to do much with, but the result I got is sort of “artsy”. You can snag it at http://www.clovegarden.com/ajg/patrica.html though if you want.
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