Recipe : Drunken chicken with yellow rice wine.
RECIPE : Chicken with Chinese wine and dong guai
2 chicken thighs with the drumsticks - chopped into bite sizes
thumbsize ginger, slice
2-3 pieces of dong guai
4 red dates
1 tablespoon of wolfberries
4 dried longans
1 tablespoon of sesame oil
Chinese rice wine - half a cup
Water - half a cup (if you like hardcore drunken chicken soup, replace the water with rice wine)
3 dried shitake mushrooms or wood fungus (soak to soften)
Method :
Heat sesame oil
Add ginger and stir fry till fragrant. Add chicken to brown.
Put the water and wine. Add the longans, red dates, wolfberries and dong guai. Simmer till chicken is tender.
Note : Dong guai and alcohol can cause bleeding so do not take during the post natal period when you are still have post-partum bleeding. During normal time, only take this after your period and not during or just before your period.
Big arrowroot soup with spare ribs
Ingredients used in arrowroot soup
Arrowroot - About 500 grams, remove skin and cut into cubes
1 dried shitake mushroom - soak (use more if you like)
6 red dates - de-seeded
Few pips of garlic
Pork ribs - About 300-400 grams (parboil, wash clean)
Water - About 1.5 litre
Salt and pepper to taste
Method
Bring water to boil and put in all the ingredients. Let the ingredients boil for about five minutes. Turn down fire. Let simmer on low fire, in covered pot for about 1 hour. Season to taste.
Here are what I used. The arrowroot has very thick skin. After removing the skin, I cut them into cubes. It has very strong smell of the earth and smell ‘green’ too. Luckily, after cooking, it gives off a pleasant fragrance, very much like lotus root. In fact, the soup tastes exactly like lotus root soup, earthy without the ‘green’ smell.
The root vegetable has very coarse fibres and I don’t think I like eating it. It is hard even after being cooked in my pressure cooker. However, the hearty soup is tasty.
Do give this root vegetable a try the next time you find it in the market.
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