97. 98. SOUPS - CHICKEN SOUP

Saturday, July 24, 2021

97. 98. SOUPS - CHICKEN SOUP

CHICKEN SOUP

Chicken Stuffed with Glutinous Rice
& Other Types of Chicken Soups

there's nothing like the good old chicken soup, the ultimate comfort food for many people around the world. here are a few types of chicken soups that we cook at home (most are asian type chicken soups). just ignore the bad pics taken from my iphone4 & iphoneSE LOL

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- Chicken Stuffed with Glutinous Rice, Mushroom & Scallops

(& recipe for remaining glutinous rice that can't fit into chicken)

- Macaroni Chicken Soup

- Chicken Soup with Salt & White Peppercorns

- Chicken Feet Soup with Salt & White peppercorns

- Chicken Collagen Soup (and jelly)

- Chilled Jelly Chicken Soup or Chinese Style Terrine

- Chicken Soup with Tang Gui & Red Dates

- Chicken Soup with Dried Scallops

- Kampong Chicken with Japanese Soba & Soya Sauce

- Chicken & Prawn Meatball Soup with Bamboo Shoots

- Black Chicken Soup with Chinese Herbs

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Chicken Stuffed with

Glutinous Rice, Mushrooms & Scallops

24 July 2021

Today i made chicken soup with a whole spring chicken, stuffed with glutinous rice, dried scallops and chinese dried shitake mushrooms.

dip the chicken and rice in a mixture of salt & white pepper...

omg so good!

RECIPE: CHICKEN SOUP -

CHICKEN STUFFED WITH GLUTINOUS RICE

Ingredients

- 1 whole chicken, cleaned

- garlic x4 cloves

- red onion, medium x1, cut into 4-6pcs

- red dates x4-6pcs, cut into halves

- glutinous rice, about 200g

(i had remainders for about 1 bowl after cooking)

- dried chinese mushrooms, small x12, cut into halves

- dried scallops, small x10-15pcs or more

- light soya sauce

- chinese shaoxing wine

- salt, white/black pepper to taste

Prepare the ingredients

1- glutinous rice

wash and soak the glutinous rice for about 3-4 hours

or soak in water overnight.

strain away the water and season with salt & white pepper

2- dried chinese mushrooms (small) x12pcs

soak dried chinese shitake mushrooms in water

& keep the clean/clear part of the soaking liquid

3- dried scallops (small) x10-15pcs

soak dried scallops with chinese wine and a little water

4- aromatics

- shallots x6pcs

- garlic x6pcs

- red dates x6pcs

5- whole spring chicken

season with salt & white pepper

and stuff the chicken (in layers) with

- scallops

- dried mushrooms

- glutinous rice

6. in a slow cooker add...

- soaking liquid from dried mushrooms

- soaking liquid from scallops & chinese wine

- add water or plain, unsalted chicken stock

- salt, white pepper, light soya sauce to taste

7. slow cook chicken for about 3-4 hours

8. optional -

add fresh or canned mushrooms to the soup

about 30min before serving it hot as a meal on its own

DIP

in a sauce plate, mix salt and white pepper powder.

this is the dip for the chicken, mushrooms and glutinous rice, if needed.

wow. so good!!

salt & white pepper dip

for chicken meat

7 Aug 2021

second time doing this dish...

below with more photo editing

below: 7 sep 2021

added dang gui 2pcs, yoke chok 10-15pcs and wolf berries 2-3 tbsp in the chicken soup. the chicken is stuffed with seasoned glutinous rice, scallops soaked in shaoxing wine and dried chinese mushrooms (soaked). glutinous rice is seasoned with salt, white pepper, sesame oil, fried garlic and garlic oil, shaoxing wine - smells amazing before it's even cooked! also added to the soup - 1 garlic clove, 4 red dates, salt & light soya sauce. this hot soup is always comforting and satisfying with hot steamed rice and some soya dip or salt/white pepper dip.

before slow cooking

after slow cooking

Glutinous Rice

not all the rice can fit into the chicken.

remember, the rice had already been seasoned with salt & white pepper.

add aromatics and ingredients

- fried shallot oil,

- crispy fried garlic and a bit of garlic oil

- add remaining dried mushrooms & dried scallops,

- add chicken stock

- pandan leaf

and steam rice till tender

some other things that you can add to the rice:

- braised peanuts

- lap cheong or chinese sausage

- dried prawns or hae bi

- chicken fried or seasoned with ginger, oyster sauce and chinese wine

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OTHER Chicken Soups -

Simple & Basic Recipes

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CHICKEN MACARONI SOUP

link: https://jt-food.blogspot.com/2017/06/1-chicken-macaroni-soup.html

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CHICKEN SOUP WITH

SALT & WHITE PEPPERCORNS

18 August 2020

Chicken Soup slow cooked, seasoned with

salt and crushed white peppercorns,

1 tbsp light soya sauce

1 tbsp fish sauce

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CHICKEN FEET SOUP WITH

SALT & WHITE PEPPERCORNS

9 August 2021

so yummy and sticky.

sometimes milky too.

Chicken Feet (1kg)

Soup slow cooked, seasoned with

salt and crushed white peppercorns,

1 tbsp light soya sauce

additional ingredients - options:

- raw peanuts,

- lotus root,

- canned button mushrooms

- fish maw, chinese cabbage / round cabbage

below: before & after 2hrs slow cooking

1kg chicken feet, salt, crushed white peppercorns,

1 garlic clove, light soya sauce, 1 tsp shaoxing wine

below: just started slow cooking

below: in the slow cooker, about 2hrs later...

CHICKEN COLLAGEN SOUP

(OR JELLY WHEN CHILLED)

15 August 2021

so after you've slow cooked your chicken feet soup,

cool and separate the chicken feet from the broth/stock.

then leave it in the fridge overnight.

your soup will turn to jelly the next day!

some people add meat and/or mushrooms and/or veggies

inside the soup before chilling and setting it overnight.

the result is like a jellied terrine!

CHILLED JELLY CHICKEN SOUP

below: i FORGOT to separate the chicken feet from the stock/broth Lol

but do you see the jelly? it's so tasty and addictive!

as for the chicken feet, just fry with garlic, chilli,

oyster sauce & dark soya sauce...

some people would use chicken wings for collagen soup,

but i find that an awful waste of good wings!

just grill the wings and have them with the soup and chicken feet!

CHICKEN FEET SOUP AS A BASE &

AS A SUPERIOR SOUP 鸡高汤

chicken stock/jelly/collagen soup can be a great superior soup base for other soups!!

16 Aug 2021

HOT & SOUR FISH MAW SOUP

WITH CHICKEN FEET SOUP AS A BASE

OR AS A SUPERIOR SOUP 鸡高汤

below: hot & sour soup using chicken feet stock

ingredients to add into the chicken stock/soup:

- fish maw

- wood ear black fungus

- black fungus

- bamboo shoots (i didn't have this so i used water chestnuts)

- chinese dried mushrooms

i didn't have sea cucumber, abalone, sharks fin, scallops, goji berries Lol

seasoning after you turn off the fire:

- chilli oil

- black vinegar

- chinese shaoxing wine

- sesame oil

- spring onions and coriander

can you identify these ingredients in my soup?
fish maw, egg toufu, chinese mushrooms,
wood ear and black fungus, chicken feet

13 Aug 2021

FISH MAW, FISHBALL & CABBAGE SOUP

WITH CHICKEN FEET SOUP AS A BASE

below: fish maw, fishball chinese cabbage soup using chicken feet stock

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CHICKEN SOUP WITH

TANG GUI & RED DATES

2 April 2021 Good Fri

dinner - chicken soup and rice

Recipe!

whole chicken slow cooked in simple soup!

- red dates x8,

- tang gui x2 pcs,

- shallots x3,

- garlic x1,

- salt,

- light soya sauce,

- crushed white pepper corn

below: christen's messy plate!

took a pic of my own rice bowl food but it ended up with a pic of my fingers uggh so NO pic of my bowl haha

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9 May 2021 Sun

CHICKEN SOUP WITH

DRIED SCALLOPS

Chicken Soup Recipe

whole chicken

salt,

crushed white peppercorns,

shallots x4,

garlic x1,

dried scallops x8 to x10pcs

japanese fragrant light soya sauce,

shaoxing chinese wine, 2tbsp or 1/2 cap

(use the cap from the chinese wine bottle)

can't decide which photo edit i like best

so i added them all here! hehe

i dip the chicken in a salt, white pepper mixture

so yummy!! seriously!

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KAMPONG CHICKEN SOUP WITH

JAPANESE SOBA & SOYA SAUCE

below:

kampong chicken - strangely, the skin is a little yellow

Lol reminds me of the traditional chicken rice...

kampong chicken with

- 3 slices of tang gui,

- soba sauce,

- japanese soya sauce,

- shaoxing wine,

- salt and freshly ground white peppercorn

- slow cooked for about 3-4 hours

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CHICKEN & PRAWN

MEATBALL SOUP WITH

BAMBOO SHOOTS

27 May 2019

home-made chicken and prawn balls with bamboo shoot soup

MEATBALLS

- minced chicken

- minced fresh prawns

- bamboo shoots

- fried crispy garlic + a bit of fried garlic oil

- cornstarch

- salt

- light soya sauce

- white pepper

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BLACK CHICKEN SOUP WITH

CHINESE HERBS

19 may 2018

black chicken soup

with mixed chinese traditional herbs for chicken soup

a small black chicken would cost about $5 at the wet markets and below $6 at the supermarkets. the meat is more solid and has less fat, making the black chicken a healthier alternative.

Chinese Herbs

mixed chinese traditional herbs - you can buy these pre-packed at a local chinese medicine shop, like hock hua, or even at NTUC and Giant - herbs include

Polygonatum or Solomon's Seals or Yu Zhu / Yoke Chok,

Goji Berry,

Chinese Yam,

Chinese Angelica or Dang Gui 当归,

Codonopsis,

Liusticum,

Astragalus,

Liquorice 甘草片

since i'm not familiar with chinese herbs and proportions for soups, i would buy a pack of pre-mixed chinese herbs for my chicken soup and use half of every herb portion as i prefer a lighter herbal taste and also i have to use less herbs in case they interfere with regular medications.