Snow Lotus Seed Chicken Soup

Overview

When my aunt came to visit, she ate a better soup. It had a gelatinous texture with snow lotus seeds added, and it was very delicious. This is stewed in a stew pot over water, and the soup is particularly delicious.

Tags

• common dishes
• meat dishes
• cardamom
• chicken legs
• cooking wine
• red dates
• snow lotus seeds (dried)
• white jade mushroom
• wolfberry
• ginger
• salt

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Snow lotus seeds should be soaked in advance, at least 12 hours. Wash red dates and white jade mushrooms. Peel and slice the ginger. Also a few wolfberries and a cardamom.

   

2. 2 Cut the chicken legs into pieces and put them in a pot under cold water, add ginger slices and cooking wine and blanch them until ready.

   

3. 3 After all the preparations are done, start loading the ingredients into the stew pot. Place white jade mushrooms on the bottom, then put snow lotus seeds, a piece of ginger, then blanched chicken pieces, another piece and cardamom, red dates and wolfberry sprinkled on top. Add some salt and then add boiling water.

   

4. 4 Cover the stew pot, put it into the rice cooker and simmer for 1 hour.