Black Chicken Soup

My mother, similar millions of other Chinese mothers, made chicken soup amongst ginseng for me when it was seek time. The chicken wasn't regular, ordinary fowl. It was silkie chicken, a breed which has dark inwardness too bones.

Before I postal service a recipe, I commonly read upward close the dish too ingredients used. So, I googled "black chicken" . . . and . . .

Wow, it looks similar there's some scientific footing for silkies' curative powers. It mightiness non endure only an one-time wives' tale that dark is ameliorate than white afterward all. In fact, practiced one-time Silkie is a superfood similar blueberries too pomegranates!

My woman raise didn't know what superfood was. To her, dark chicken was only "补". It had exceptional curative powers.

Long earlier the discussion "superfood" became popular, the Chinese knew that some foods were ameliorate than others or 补. These foods amongst superpowers convey been used, for thousands of years, to improve seat out energy levels . . . and whatever else that involve improving. You know, of import things similar virility, fertility, intelligence, pilus colour, pilus quantity, complexion, injure healing, hormonal balance, stamina, eyesight too ultimately, life expectancy!

Whoa, life expectancy?

Surely that's stretching it a chip likewise far?

Well, perhaps not, if you lot read the enquiry on carnosine, the antioxidant institute inwards abundance inwards dark chicken.

Carnosine is a poly peptide institute inwards brute products such every bit chicken, pork, beef, milk too eggs. It's a powerful antioxidant which prolongs jail mobile telephone life bridge past times slowing downward the impairment that cellular proteins endure over time. The lawsuit has been demonstrated inwards rats too cultured cells.

Health supplement peddlers convey jumped on the carnosine bandwagon. They claim carnosine is practiced for anything from cataracts to Alzheimer's disease, autism, diabetes, wrinkles, edifice muscles, etc. Heheh, they would, wouldn't they?

Some doctors are using carnosine for cataract patients. As for treating other ailments, the enquiry isn't conclusive yet. However, nosotros produce know that dark chicken has twice every bit much carnosine every bit regular chicken. Animal brains are also packed amongst carnosine. Does double-boiled pork encephalon soup amongst ginseng – which my woman raise also made me drink! – actually help larn practiced seek grades because it's loaded amongst carnosine? Maybe the Chinese are correct close brains existence a superfood?

I convey to a greater extent than faith inwards Silkie's curative powers straightaway that I know it has lots of antioxidants. Hah! I'm certain my woman raise would endure most happy to listen that.

SILKIE CHICKEN SUPER SOUP
(For 2 persons)

v g snowfall ears (雪耳)
1 dark chicken (乌鸡) (about 400 g)
600 ml water
twenty g sliced dang gui (Angelica sinensis, 当归), rinsed
v Chinese dried cherry dates (jujubes, 红枣), rinsed
v g goji berries (枸杞), rinsed
¼ tsp tabular array salt or to taste

1. Soak snowfall ears inwards H2O till soft, close twenty minutes. Trim dirty, tough ends too discard. Rinse thoroughly too intermission into seize amongst teeth size pieces.

2. Remove whatsoever remaining feathers on chicken. Chop into ii pieces, lengthwise. Rinse thoroughly. Place all ingredients inwards a pot, irksome cooker or double-boiler. Bring to a boil too simmer gently for 1½ hours. Discard dang gui. Serve hot. Add tabular array salt to gustation if you lot similar but traditionally, tonics are drunkard without seasoning.

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