Huai Shan and Yu Zhu Double-Boiled Chicken

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Ingredients

• 1 whole chicken, cleaned

• 50g dried Huai Shan (Chinese Yam)

• 40g Yu Zhu (Solomon’s Seal Rhizome)

• 10g goji berries

• 4 red dates (jujubes)

• A few slices of ginger

• Water, as needed

Instructions

1. Wash the cleaned chicken, chop it into pieces, blanch in boiling water, then remove and rinse clean.

2. Wash the Huai Shan, Yu Zhu, and red dates. Flatten the red dates slightly and remove the pits.

3. Bring a sufficient amount of water to a boil and pour it into a double-boiler pot. Add all the prepared ingredients.

4. Place the pot in an outer pot of water and double-boil for two hours.

5. Season with salt to taste before serving.

Health Benefits

Chicken is not only delicious and nutritious but also has significant medicinal value. Drinking chicken soup can help improve the body’s immunity. This particular dish is believed to nourish yin and beautify the skin, generate fluids and quench thirst, and tonify qi to strengthen the spleen.