Sam Gye Tang

Samgyetang, it is Korean style chicken soup with ginseng. When people see the word ginseng, they probably can guess what kind of food it is. it is very health food, and Korean usually eat the food on summer. It is kind of herbal soup that contains several oriental herbs such as jujubes, ginseng, and milk vetch root. The soup is very hot and tasty. We also believe that the herbs can give very good effect for human health, so many Korean enjoy this soup. There are some steps how to cook this Samgyetang.

Ingredients

A whole chicken, 15 cups of water, 1/3 cup of rice, 10 cloves garlic, 1~2 root of ginseng, 4~5 jujubes, salt, and black pepper.

1.      Rinse and place rice with clean water in a large bowl about 30 minutes.

2.      Wash and peel garlic, rinse jujubes, and ginseng.

3.      Rinse the whole chicken thoroughly inside and outside. *do not cut it in half!!!!*

4.      Put the all mixtures such as garlic, jujubes, ginseng, and rice. Then, twist the chicken lags, and tide with thread.

5.      Place the chicken in a large pot with enough water. * the whole chicken must be in the water*

6.      Boil over higher heat for 15minutes, and cook with lower heat for an hour.

7.      After an hour, take the chicken in the bow, and put some soup from the pot.

8.      Serve with salt and black paper. * do not forget to take off the thread *

By Sungwoo Son