Sesame Wine Chicken Soup
Ma You Ji Tang is a Taiwanese style sesame wine chicken soup. This soup is most appropriate for the cold weather months, as it is great for your immune system. Ginger has anti-inflammatory properties; red dates helping regulate blood pressure, aid in digestion, and are high in vitamin C. Dark meat chicken will work the best for this soup, so I used 2 whole legs; cutting the drumsticks in half and the thighs into 4 pieces. The soup can be served over noodles or rice and is topped with lots of green onions and cilantro.
Servings: 2
Ingredients
- 4 tbsp black sesame oil
- 6 slices ginger
- 2 whole chicken legs drumsticks cut in half; thighs cut into 4
- 2 cups michiu cooking wine or shaoxing cooking wine
- 2 cups chicken stock
- 12 dried red dates
- 1/2 tsp sugar
- salt to taste
- 2 portions somen noodles prepared according to package directions
- 4 green onions chopped
- 1/4 cup cilantro chopped
Instructions
- Heat up 2 tbsp of sesame oil in a pot over medium high heat. Sauté the ginger slices gor 3 minutes. Remove from the pot.
- Add in the chicken. Brown on all sides for 10 minutes in total.
- Pour in the chicken stock and cooking wine. Bring to a boil.
- Add in the dried red dates and the sautéed ginger slices. Cover. Reduce the heat to medium low and simmer for 30 minutes.
- Stir in the sugar and the last 2 tbsp of sesame oil. Season with salt to taste.
- Place a portion of the somen noodles in a bowl.
