This is a lung nourishing soup, that is both healthy and flavourful. This is the perfect time to make this especially with the virus going around. It is also good to serve if you often like to eat grilled or spicy foods as it reduces the “heat” from the body.

“Sea coconut helps nourish the lungs, relieve coughing and dispels internal heatiness while white fungus has been appraised for its medial benefits namely anti-imflammatory and anti-tumour, nourishing the body and healing dry cough. It has been used as a tonic herb and as a beauty enhancer to improve the complexion. Its collagen content is comparable to bird’s nest. Hence, it is also why white fungus is dubbed as the poor mans bird nest. “*

Ingredients

• 800g chopped chicken thigh
• 1.7L water
• 3 pcs honey dates
• 25g dried sea coconut
• 15g sliced ginger
• 20ml huatiao chiew
• 15g goji berries
• 20 pcs dried mushrooms ( I used tea flower mushroom)
• 1 floret dried white fungus
• Salt to taste

Method

• Rinse and soak the dried mushrooms with hot water for 15 minutes; drain and remove the stem and set aside.
• Soak the white fungus with hot water for 30 minutes; drain and remove the stem, cut it into chunks
• Quickly rinse the goji berries, honey dates and sea coconut; Set aside
• Prepare 1.7 L of water in a pot, let it boil. Put all the chicken and the rest of the ingredients. Let it boil at high heat. Once it boils, reduce the fire to the lowest heat and let it simmer for 30 minutes or until the meat are fully cooked.
• Add salt to taste.

*Quotes are by two Chinese medical websites on the internet, not by me.

• 

• 

• 

• 

note that dried sea coconut are meant to be discarded after cooking.