Recipe - Lotus Root And Chicken Soup

This lotus root and chicken soup helps the body to restore and maintain the immune system. It is tasty and delicious and only natural ingredients are used for this recipe. It is not expensive, but it does require a bit of time to cook. Taken regularly, like once a week, this soup will help maintain the body immune system, meaning you will not get sick easily.

This lotus root and chicken soup is for restoring and maintaining general health. For people who suffer from fatigue or stress, then the ginseng chicken soup is recommended.

In this recipe, I use chicken thighs (with bone but without skin) and lotus root. Dried seedless dates, dried fig fruits, dioscorea, and wolf berries are added for flavour and sweetness.

dioscorea

A word of caution: dioscorea may not be suitable for pregnant women because they can cause premature birth.

The ingredients are sweet. Chicken, dates, fig fruits, wolf berries and lotus root have natural sweetness.

red dates

Ingredients (serves 5):

5 chicken thighs (skinless bone-in)

5 red seedless dates

5 dried fig fruits

wolf berries

10 pieces of wolf berries

5 pieces of dioscorea

1 section of lotus root, about 200 grams, peeled and cut into slices.

1 liter of water

Method:

Blanch the chicken thighs in boiling water to get rid of the chicken smell and surface fat.

dried fig fruit

In a pot, bring 1 liter of water to the boil

Toss in all the ingredients and let the soup boil

Switch to low and let the ingredients simmer for about 45 minutes.

It is done.

You may have to scoop out any remaining fat from the soup.

Enjoy

   

lotus root

In this 4.5 minute video, the lotus root is cooked with spare ribs and dried scallops.  Dried scallops add a lot of flavour, but cost a little bit of money.

Gourmet chefs show to make  use of lotus root in this Iron Chef video.