These days, I was dead-tired. So, I want to improve my health by taking tonics.
In Korea, when people want to build up their health, usually they choose SamGyeTang which is the healthiest way to cook chicken.
Small, young chicken is stuffed with sweet rice, ginseng, Korean dates and other medicinal herbs, and boiled to perfection.
Usually a whole chicken is served for one person.
SamGyeTang is believed to be a health food that revitalizes the body and boosts the immune system.
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Ingredients
Chicken, water, garlic clove, Korean date, green onion, chili, bay leaves, ginkgo nut, sweet rice, ginseng, salt, black pepper
Provide a recipe for the soup
1. Soak sweet rice & Wash chicken
Wash 1 cup of sweet rice and soak in water for 40 min and leave it in a strainer for at least 10 min to drain water.
Wash the chicken inside and out thoroughly under running water. Cuff off the tail and fats.
2. Onion&bay leaves Water
Add onion, bay leaves, black pepper, clove and 12 cups of water in a pot and bring it to boil. When boiling, lower the heat to medium and simmer it for 20 min then remove onion and bay leaves.
3. Prepare chicken & Stuff chicken
While simmering the onion water, stuff the chicken. Make slits on the outer skin of inner thigh (to be used to keep legs crossed). You can also use kitchen string to tie the legs instead.
If you don't have kitchen string, you can use photato bag string!
Stuff EACH chicken cavity with ½ cup of rice, ginseng, date, cloves of garlic and ginkgo nut.
4. Boil Stuffed Chicken
Place the stuffed chicken, whole garlic, date, green onion and chili in onion water and boil with a lid on high heat for 20 min. Make sure most of the chicken is submerged in water when you start boiling the chicken. Add more water if needed. Skim off foams.
Then, lower the heat to medium to simmer with a lid for another 20 min.
5. Serve
When the soup turns milky white, turn off the heat. Add ½ to 1 tablespoon of salt (taste and add gradually), ½ teaspoon of black pepper to the broth. Serve in a large bowl. Enjoy!
It taste is a little bit oilly and has much chicken flavor. Taste is similar to Canadian chicken stock. Smell is like gravy sauce and medicinal herbs.
I think this blog assignment is successed, also I learned about Samgyetang recipe.
Next time, I will use medicinal herbs. I knew medicinal herbs smell and their effeciveness with this as a momentum.
After eat Samgyetang, you can use leftove for Chicken rice porridge.
