Ginseng chicken soup
Soup
Ginseng chicken soup is a type of soup, which involves chicken and ginseng (either panax ginseng, female ginseng, or pseudo ginseng) as one of the main ingredients. Ginseng can typically be cooked with chicken in broth, porridge, and soups. Varieties of ginseng chicken soup can be found in Asian countries, such as China, Malaysia, and Korea.
Chinese
In China, many traditional Chinese foods are associated with therapeutic properties and health-promoting effects. Some traditional Chinese foods which involves poultry products are recognized for their tastes, their nutritional values and health promoting benefits. The Chinese chicken soups, which are cooked in many different types of herbs, such as ginseng, ginger, black mushrooms, wolf-berry fruits, dried Chinese jujubes, and other ingredients, such as a wine and sesame oil, have typically been used to facilitate the speedy recovery of patients. Ginseng chicken soups are also eaten by the overseas Chinese diaspora.
Renshen jitang
In Chinese cuisine, there is a ginseng chicken soup called Renshen jitang (人蔘雞湯; lit. "Ginseng chicken soup") and is considered as a "medicated food" (藥膳) following Traditional Chinese medicine. The Renshen jitang is believed to be good for elderly and convalescent people, but is not unsuitable for young people.
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