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Ginseng Chicken Soup

Photograph by Joe Vaughn

Ginseng Chicken Soup

1 pound fresh chicken
½ ounce fresh ginseng (not ground)
2 pieces of dried fig
2 pieces of Nanaimo
2 quarts water

Put fresh chicken with Chinese herbs into a covered soup pot filled with water. Steam for 5 hours. Add pinch of salt.

Danny Yu
Hong Hua,
Farmington Hills

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// October 2008

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