Chicken contains a lot of protein, so it usually takes a long time to stew, and its meat will be soft and rotten. At this time, the flavor substances contained in chicken can be dissolved in chicken soup, and the taste of chicken soup will be more delicious.

If the stew time is too short, not only the chicken will be hard, but also the chicken soup will be weak. Therefore, when stewing chicken soup, it is recommended to simmer 1-2 hours or so. If time is tight, you can also choose to stew in a pressure cooker, which will be faster and only take about 30-45 minutes.

Can I still drink chicken soup after stewing for 4 hours? It varies from person to person.

For the chicken soup stewed for 4 hours, it does not contain toxic substances, so you can continue to drink it if you want. However, with the extension of stewing time, protein, fat and other ingredients contained in chicken will be more dissolved into the soup, so the purine content in chicken soup is relatively high at this time.

Purine will be converted into uric acid after entering the human body, so it is not recommended for some people with high uric acid to drink chicken soup stewed for 4 hours.

Chicken soup stew is delicious and nutritious, depending on personal taste.

Chicken soup itself tastes delicious. It is suggested that you can choose an old hen with full meat and high fat content when stewing soup, and you can fry the chicken before stewing soup to make its fat react chemically, so that the chicken soup will taste better.

Secondly, you can also add some ingredients to the chicken soup and stew it together, such as Codonopsis pilosula, Radix Astragali, Fructus Lycii, Fructus Jujubae, Lentinus Edodes, Cordyceps, etc. It can also enhance the supplementary function of chicken soup, but it is not recommended to put chicken essence, so as not to affect the umami flavor of chicken soup itself.

4 is it okay to stew chicken soup without ginger?

When stewing chicken soup, ginger is mainly used to remove the fishy smell of chicken soup and improve the taste and freshness, but because ginger is hot, it may increase the calories of the human body after eating it.

Therefore, for some people who have a lot of calories in their bodies and are prone to get angry, or people who don't like ginger, they can not put it away, but the chicken soup that may be stewed has a strong taste. It is suggested that you can put some cooking wine and shallots according to your personal taste.