Recipe: Delicious Black Chicken Soup with American Ginseng

Black Chicken Soup with American Ginseng. This ginseng with chicken soup recipe looks delicious and I'm sure if very health promoting. I'm very familiar with ginseng and have used it from time to time to boost my energy. When I was a kid in the Appalachian mountains I would often search for wild American ginseng, but it's getting harder to find.
Double-boiled black chicken American ginseng soup is an energizer and of course delicious. The soup is very flavoruful. 😋 Give it a try. Nope, I didn't eat the black chicken. You can have Black Chicken Soup with American Ginseng using 6 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Black Chicken Soup with American Ginseng

1. Prepare of Whole black chicken.
2. Prepare of American ginseng.
3. It's of Chinese yam.
4. You need of Solomons seal.
5. Prepare of Goji berries.
6. You need 2 tsp of rock salt.

It's for photo only. 😛 Don't skimp on the ingredients because it can make or break this healthy tonic. Don't put too much water as it will dilute the soup. Then, when our contributor, shared with me his double boiled black chicken with American ginseng soup recipe, I decided to give it a try. We prefer whole black chicken for it gives better taste to the herbs.

Black Chicken Soup with American Ginseng step by step

1. Add all ingredients in a pot of 4 litres water. Let it boil for 15 minutes and let it slow simmer for at least 8 hours. Add salt when simmered for more than 3 hours..
2. You can use a Thermos cooking pot or electric induction slow cooker to save gas when slow cook for long hours..

This chicken soup is slightly different from the normal good old chicken soup as it's double-boiled with black chicken. Flavoured with traditional Chinese herbs like sweet wolfberries/goji berries/Boxthorn fruits, Ginseng aka 'Pau Sum' in Cantonese and Yuzhu aka Solomon's seal rhizome/polygonatum, this soup is believed to be invigorating and nutritious. Introducing a traditional Chinese ginseng chicken soup. Ginseng and chicken are a beautiful marriage of healing benefits and flavour. Chinese ginseng chicken soup incorporates some unique ingredients, setting the soup apart from versions of other oriental culture.