Chicken Soup with Dried Fish and Clams Recipe

Chicken Soup with Dried Fish and Clams Recipe

Ingredients: Serves 4

80g dried salty fish

900g chicken

300g clams

5-6 pieces dried bamboo mushrooms

3 slices ginger

1 stalk scallion

1 tablespoon shredded ginger

 

Seasonings:

2 tablespoons Shao-xing wine

salt to taste

 

Method:

Rinse dried fish, soak with water for 20 minutes.  Cut to pieces.  Chop chicken to large chunk, blanch for 1 minute.  Remove and rinse to clean.  Soak dried bamboo mushrooms to expand, rinse clean and then cut to sections.  Boil 8 cups of water in a soup pot, put dried fish and chicken in, also add wine, scallion and ginger.  Bring to a boil again.  Then simmer for 1½ hours.  Add bamboo mushrooms in, cook for 10 minutes.  Add clams in, cook until clams are opened.  Season with some salt if needed, you may add a little of Shao-xing wine at last to enhance the fragrant.  Add ginger shreds before serving.

 

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