Black Garlic Chicken Soup
It doesn't smell! Pitch black chicken soup with fermented black garlic that is as sweet as dried fruit
Description
A hugely popular Taiwanese soup simmering chicken and 'Hei Suantou' (Black Garlic)—raw garlic aged/fermented long-term until pitch-black. Garlic odor vanishes, exploding with deep prune-like sweetness and richness.
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Recipe
Ingredients
- Black garlic
- Bone-in chicken
- Raw garlic
- Goji berries
- Dates
- Salt
Instructions
- [Authentic Recipe]
- Peel black garlic (inside is pitch-black and soft like jelly).
- Parboil bone-in chicken, wash off scum.
- Put water, chicken, black garlic, goji, dates, and a few cloves of 'raw garlic (secret flavor to add punch)' in a pot.
- Simmer slowly on low for ~
- hr.
- When soup turns pitch-black like coffee and black garlic melts into it, season with salt to finish.
Learn more Spice, substitutes, tips
Key spices
Fruity fermented aroma resembling prunes or balsamic vinegar
Substitutes at Japanese supermarkets
(Irreplaceable due to unique blackness and sweetness)
Pairing
Mianxian(put somen in soup)、White Rice
Trivia
[For Health Conscious] Taiwanese supers heavily sell 'Black Garlic' in nets. A superfood where raw garlic's allicin changes to 'S-Allylcysteine' via fermentation, skyrocketing antioxidant effects dozens of times. No need to worry about post-meal breath; combined with chicken protein, it's the ultimate fatigue-recovery menu during diets.
Eating tips & etiquette
[Unique Eating] Toss the tender 'black garlic cloves' that didn't fully melt into the soup into your mouth along with chicken, directly tasting the bomb of sweetness and richness!
Allergen
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