Old hens are best stewed. Here are a few ways to do it:

Coconut chicken soup

Ingredients: 1 chicken, 1 coconut, peel Quarter each, with appropriate amount of salt.

Method:

1. Wash the coconut meat and cut it into small pieces.

2. When the chicken is ready (kill it), remove the internal organs, wash and dry it, cut into large pieces, and drain the water.

3. Soak the peel in hot water for a while, scrape off the pulp and wash it clean.

4. Bring an appropriate amount of water to a boil, add chicken, coconut meat and peel and bring to a boil, then simmer it over low heat for three hours, add salt to taste and it is ready to drink.

Efficacy: Coconut chicken soup is delicious, sweet and good for the stomach.

Ingredients: Two corns, two carrots, one old hen

Method: Cut the corn and carrots into sections of about ten centimeters, and remove all the skin of the old hen , put these ingredients and ginger together, first burn over high heat, add wine after boiling, then burn over high heat for 20 minutes, then simmer over low heat for two hours, and finally add salt.

The color of this soup is attractive, and it does not feel greasy like chicken soup at all. You can drink it in summer.

10 grams of gastrodia elata slices, 1 old hen, and 3 slices of ginger.

Method: Wash the gastrodia elata, wash and cut the ginger into shreds, kill the old hen and remove the hair and internal organs, fill the chicken belly with gastrodia elata slices and shredded ginger, put it in a stew pot, add an appropriate amount of water, and heat it up Bring to a boil, then simmer until the chicken is cooked through. Drink soup and eat chicken several times. Available for 1 meal per week. Use 3 ingredients in a row.

Effects: nourishing blood, replenishing blood and extinguishing wind. It is used for repeated attacks of weakness and dizziness after illness.

6》Babao chicken soup (medicated diet)

Ingredients:

5 grams each of Codonopsis pilosula, Poria cocos, white peony root, fried Atractylodes macrocephala, 25 grams of roasted licorice, 7.5 grams each of Rehmannia glutinosa and Angelica sinensis, 3 grams Ligusticum chuanxiong, appropriate amount of soup, one hen (2500 grams), 750 grams each of pork and pig bones, green onions, ginger, and cooking wine.

Preparation:

1. Wash all the medicinal materials and put them into gauze bags. Clean the hen, remove the internal organs and cut into pieces, wash and cut the pork into pieces, wash and beat the miscellaneous bones. ;

2. Add all the meat ingredients to the water and put them in the casserole together with the Chinese medicine package;

3. Season the soup with the soup, put it into the casserole and bring it to a boil, then reduce the heat and simmer until When cooked (about 2-3 hours), remove the medicinal bag.

Dosage: Eat meat and drink soup.

Efficacy: Regulate and replenish qi and blood. Deficiency of both qi and blood will cause weakness in the limbs. (for four seasons)

Ginseng stewed chicken soup

[Ingredients]

12 grams of ginseng, 1 old hen, ginger, green onion, rice wine and salt Just the right amount.

[Production]

1. Cut the ginseng into thin slices, kill the chicken, remove the hair and intestines, cut into pieces and wash.

2. Put the two flavors into a casserole, add an appropriate amount of water, add all seasonings, bring to a boil over high heat, remove the foam on the soup surface, simmer over low heat for 2-3 hours, and then serve. Serve with food.

[Efficacy and Application]

Replenish vitality, strengthen the spleen and stomach. It is used for those who are chronically ill or physically weak or mentally exhausted. Ordinary people can strengthen their health and prolong their life by eating it regularly.

11》Nutritious chicken stew

Ingredients:

Half chicken (about 420g), 36g red dates, 20g yam, 20g wolfberry, Codonopsis pilosula 20 grams, 20 grams of dried longan

Method:

1. Material preparation: a. Cut the chicken into 4 to 6 pieces and remove the skin; b. Wash all the medicinal materials, put them into a 3-liter container and soak them in 1150 ml of water for at least 2 hours;

2. Use a 2-liter casserole to microwave on "high" for 10 minutes, boil 1000 ml of water, add chicken pieces, cook on microwave on "high" for an additional 4 minutes, remove and rinse;

3. Place the chicken pieces in the medicinal dipping sauce, cover and cook on the "medium-low" setting of the microwave for 1 hour and 30 minutes to 2 hours, then cook on the "low" setting of the microwave for 20-40 minutes;

4. Add salt (1 teaspoon or more) to taste, then simmer for 5 minutes

Melon and Snail Head Chicken Soup

Function: It is also called Jazz Soup in Hong Kong, said to be the name of Sir Run Run Shaw Jazz's favorite health soup. The true color of the soup is milky white, very thick and white. It is best for women to drink. It has beautifying and moisturizing effects.

Ingredients: half a catty of honeydew melon (note, choose white-skinned and green-fleshed honeydew melon, a little raw, not too ripe), half a catty of fresh conch meat (if there is no fresh one, two taels of dried one is enough ), one pound of old hen.

Accessories: a small piece of ginger.

Method: It is best to use a traditional tall earthenware pot. If not, a tall stainless steel pot will also work. First boil the water (the amount of water is twice as much as the ingredients), add the ginger slices, snail meat, and chicken pieces, cook on high heat for half an hour, then medium heat for two hours, then add the honeydew melon cut into small pieces, and then medium heat. Half an hour is enough. The soup water at this time is about half to two-fifths of the initial water volume. Finally add salt to taste.

Tip: Fresh conch is not easy to clean because there is a layer of greasy liquid on the outside. Mix dry cornstarch and snail meat evenly and rinse with water to make it easy to clean.