Healing Chinese Herbal Soup
Soup Name:
Healing Chinese Herbal Soup
Traditional Chinese Name:
北芪黨參消腫養陰湯 (běi qí dǎngshēn xiāo zhǒng yǎng yīn tāng)
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This soup is perfect for anyone who wants to replenish and strengthen blood and qi, has poor circulation, relieve fatigue, or reduce pain and inflammation.
I call this my Healing Chinese Herbal soup and want give a shout out to Tash from SouperWell for this partnership! Hi Tash!
What’s involved?
Prep time: 20 mins
Cook time: 3 hours
Total time: 3 hours and 20 mins
Serves: 4 bowls
Ingredients
- 1 fresh black silkie chicken, quartered
- 2-3 fresh lotus root sections, sliced
- 3 pieces of dried astragulus root
- 3 whole dried red dates, pitted
- 3 whole dried blue or black dates
- 5 pieces of dried Chinese yam
- 1 tablespoon of dried euryale or fox nut seeds
- 1 piece of dried tangerine peel
- 10 pieces of dried longans
- 4-5 pieces of dang quai
- 2 L of water (I usually use 3 L for a pot of family soup, but because I want it a little more condensed, I opted for 2 L)
Cooking Instructions
- You can pre-soak your tangerine peel (to soften) and dried Chinese yam (to wash off any sulphur usually used in the drying process)
- Prepare the protein by quartering your chicken
- Prepare 2 pots, one is the soup pot (add your 2 L of water) and one pot is for blanching the chicken
- Once your blanching pot boils, drop in your chicken and boil on high for 5-7 minutes, allowing the foam, fat, and bones come to the surface
- You can turn off your blanching heat and once your soup water boils, transfer the blanched chicken over and let that boil on high
- Add in your sliced lotus root and dried ingredients
- Cover and boil on high for 30 minutes
- Reduce to a low boil for another 3 hours
- Salt as needed
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It’s not a perfect science (still working to perfect it), but I’d say the methodology and thinking is sound :)
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EQUIPMENT USED
To answer your questions on what equipment I’m using, I’ve built a section here where you can find and explore what I’m using to make soups. Ingredients are a little harder, but I will do my best as I source them around. However, you can always message me on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, or Facebook, and I will reply and try to point you in some direction!
You’ll see me using this star wand salt shaker for salting my blanching water. This thing is so much fun to use and I really feel like I’m making magic every time!
A MUST HAVE in the kitchen! Energy saving, cost effective, and perfect for busy chefs! Check out my article here that explains it.
Another MUST HAVE in the kitchen for soups! It’s so fine that it will scoop off the top oil and foam layer when using meats in your soup!
This silicon soup scooper is amazing! It actually molds to the shape of pot, ensuring I scoop everything out (especially stews and congee). Dishwasher safe!!
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do you have a newsletter where can i find this packet? would this soup be suitable for a 76 year old male? If not, what would you recommend for restoring chi? Thank you. Cheers
Hi Finley! I’m sorry, I don’t have a newsletter at this time. This soup is also suitable for a 76 year old male. Most soups are generic for all genders, it really just depends on your condition overall. For this soup, I usually just buy the ingredients separately as they are all pretty accessible in the supermarkets. Are you looking to make this soup? Where are you based? Lisa