Ingredients: hen 1 hen, 50 grams of Cordyceps sinensis and 4-5 jujubes.

Making seasonings: ginger 1, onion 1, salt 1.

Manufacturing method and steps

The first step: clean the hen, chop off the head and feet of the chicken or stuff them into the stomach of the chicken, mainly for stew.

Step 2: Slice ginger and onion, wash jujube and medlar, remove dust and put them on a plate; Pick, wash and plate the cordyceps flowers for later use.

Step 3: Put the cleaned hen into a casserole, add water to the chicken, and then add ginger slices and green onions in turn.

Step 4: Bring to a boil with high fire. Boil for 2 minutes, skim off the blood foam, add jujube, cover with low heat 1 hour, and cook the chicken.

Step 5: After the chicken is stewed, add the prepared Chinese caterpillar fungus flowers, cover the pot and stew for 15 minutes, so that the Chinese caterpillar fungus flowers and chicken soup can blend into flavor.

Step 6: stew Cordyceps sinensis flowers for 15 minutes, add 1 spoon of salt and Lycium barbarum, simply stir, put them in a soup bowl after taking out the pot, and sprinkle some shallots to serve.

This "stewed chicken soup with cordyceps sinensis" is simple and delicious, and it is a good health soup. It has the functions of invigorating spleen and stomach, enriching amino acid nutrition, enhancing and regulating human immune function, improving human disease resistance, benefiting liver and kidney, benefiting essence, relieving cough and resolving phlegm.

Pay attention to the following points when cooking this soup:

(1) You'd better choose the old hen that laid eggs to make this soup. The stewed old hen tastes fragrant and nutritious.

(2) In order to avoid greasy, try to cut off the part with much chicken oil and skim off the oil on the surface of the cooked chicken soup, which is delicious and not greasy.

(3) If it is dry, soak it in water for about half an hour. But don't soak it for too long to prevent nutrient loss.

(4) Don't put Cordyceps into the pot too early. Usually put it in the pot before 15 minutes. If the time is too early, Cordyceps will lose its nutrition and some functions.

(5) It is best to add salt and medlar when they are out of the pot. Otherwise, Lycium barbarum will be soft and rotten, affecting the taste and efficacy. If the salt is put in early, it will affect the release of protein in chicken, and at the same time, the meat quality of chicken will be tightened and the taste will become very firewood.