Korean Ginseng Chicken Soup (삼계탕)
Health is wealth y'all.
Start your year off with a bang with an iconic Summer soup, Samgye-tang. This steaming bowl of ginseng chicken soup is rich and nutritious. What lies under the belly of the tender meat is a surprise — the rich glutinous rice is sure to fill your belly up!
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ingredients:
1 whole chicken (Kampong chicken preferred)
1/2 cup glutinous rice (soaked for 1 hour)
8 dried red dates
10g ginger, thinly sliced
2 spring onions (slice green parts and leave white portions whole)
6 garlic cloves, peeled
3 ginseng root, soaked for 30 mins
2 l water
salt, as needed
salt and pepper condiment:
2 tbsp sea salt
1 tsp ground black pepper
1 tsp roasted sesame seeds
directions:
with scissors, cut off the feet and wingtip of the chicken
to clean the chicken from blood and impurities, sprinkle 2 tbsp salt around and inside the cavity of the chicken. massage well for 2 minutes and rinse the salt off under running water
stuff the cavity with two-thirds of the soaked rice, 3 red dates and 3 cloves garlic
using a toothpick, simply stitch the skin around the cavity together to hold the contents inside. optionally, with some twine, tie the legs together tightly
place chicken in a heavy bottomed pot on medium heat. add in the rest of the ingredients and water.
let the liquid come to a boil and skim off any fat or scum which comes up the surface
lower heat and let the soup simmer very gently for a 1.5 hours, skimming anything which comes up
season lightly with salt
stir the condiment ingredients together. remove the twine and enjoy your Samgyetang, alone or with a friend.