Black Chicken Ginseng Soup

Total Time: 3 hrs 50 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 3 hrs 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 black roasting chicken, whole, skinned and cut into big chunks
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 50 g ginseng roots, cut up (or 1 3/4 oz)
• 1/8 cup dried chinese wolfberries (or tibetan gouji berry, or lycium chinense, it's all the same)
• 15 seeded dried chinese dates (hongzao)
• 8 cups water

Recipe

• 1 rub chicken chunks with salt and let stand 10 minutes.
• 2 put all ingredients into an earthenware pot (or crock-pot) and bring to a boil.
• 3 reduce heat to low and let simmer, covered, for 3 1/2 hours.