The main raw materials in the mushroom chicken soup are mushrooms and chicken, and chicken is best to choose the old hen, the nutritional value is higher. The recipe for chicken soup with shiitake mushrooms is very simple, and the most important thing is to choose the ingredients. What kind of mushrooms are of good quality? First grade mushrooms are yellow-brown or black-brown, with a slightly frosty umbrella surface, large and uniform, round and neat, short and thick stalks, tight and thin white folds, thick meat, strong flavor, no burnt taste, and few crumbs. After rinsing the chicken, cut off the head and tail of the chicken, and remove the two thick slices of fat from the tail, as well as the lymph from the neck of the chicken. The chicken can be boiled whole or cut into pieces. In addition to chicken and mushrooms, you also need to prepare red dates and goji berries, these two herbs can increase the flavor of the chicken soup with mushrooms, but also add the effect of blood.

Specific production steps:

1, in the pot filled with a sufficient amount of water, cold water into the whole chicken, boil over high heat and remove the foam, put ginger, soaked dates, goji berries and Shiitake mushrooms

2, high heat boil, turn to low heat and slow simmering, about simmering for about 2-3 hours, put the salt to taste, you can get out of the pot

Soaked mushrooms in the water can also be poured into the pot with the simmering, so that more flavorful, and also more effective, and more efficient. In this way the flavor of the chicken soup is stronger, but the premise is that the mushrooms must be carefully cleaned to ensure hygiene. The dried or fresh shiitake mushrooms can be used in the soup, the nutritional value is the same. If you don't like shiitake mushrooms, you can replace them with your favorite mushrooms, which will go well with the chicken soup.