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American Ginseng Chicken Herbal Soup ========================= This cooling soup is esp good for the warm summer! ----------------- Ingredients: ----------------- 1 Black chicken (can replace with chicken drumsticks) Red dates (Seedless) American Ginseng Roots Wolfberries (Gou Qi) Yu Zhu --------------- Instructions: --------------- Wash the chicken and blanch it with hot water to remove the blood. Put it into the slow cooker. Rinse the herbs and throw them into the slow cooker, all except wolfberries. Add hot water. Cook it with high option for 3 to 4 hours or till the meat is easily detachable from the drum or chicken. Add in wolfberries the last 30 minutes. Season it with salt or soya sauce to taste.

Ingredients: ---------------- Bamboo shoots Mushrooms Ginger Chicken (mid joint) Black fungus Few slices of danggui Shaoxing hai diao jiu Fish sauce A dash of pepper

Ingredients: ----------------- 500 gm chilli paste 250 gm shallots 2 big onions 1/2 cup cooking oil 3 Tbsp sugar 2 Tbsp gula melaka 1/2 tsp salt 1/4 piece of belachan 1/2 tbsp assam juice Method: ----------- 1. Slice shallots and big onions thinly. 2. Heat cooking oil and fry sliced shallots and big onions till fragrant. 3. Add in chilli paste and belachan and fry till thick about 1/2 hr. 4. Finally add sugar, gula melaka, assam juice and salt to taste.