Chicken essence is good for people who are weak because one bowl of it contains all the goodness from one chicken. Many pregnant mothers who had difficulties during their pregnancies have benefited from this wonderful chicken essence soup. My mom thought me how to make chicken essence when my wife was pregnant with our first child. Now, I would make chicken essence occasionally for my family. It provides my kids with extra nutrition during their growing years. It is actually not very difficult to make chicken essence; you just need some time to cook it over slow fire. Ingredients Chicken (preferably free range kampung (village) chicken), 1 whole, removes skin
Clean chicken and make a cut along the breast area. Use a pestle to smash all the bones so that all the nutrition from the bone marrow would flow out when the chicken is cooked. Place a rice bowl upside down in a porcelain pot. Put the chicken on top of the rice bowl. Cover up the porcelain pot and put in a metal pot filled with water for double boiling. Cover up the metal pot and double steam (dan, 炖) for 3 hours. The chicken essence would flow into the rice bowl. Serve while still hot. The chicken meat would be tasteless but you can use it to make bak hu (meat floss) I didn’t manage to take a picture of the pure chicken essence because my kids drank all of it before I could do so! Sweet and nice! This is Pete's Essence of Chicken!LOL!
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my mom use this way to prepare chicken essence for me during my confinement time, so tasty. Thanks for sharing the detail steps here.
i want your bak hu~~~~~~ hahahahah
yea..my mom also do the same way. It's real tasty and rich.
Aaah! So this is how they do it... Hmmm No wonder it's so wholesome. Thank you Pete, very helpful. And that bak hu! It's a definite bookmark. (I don't know much about real asian cookery you see)
And no wonder your kiddies finished it in one go, they've been biking all day. Hahaha
Definitely better than the bottled ones. I hear at the factory, they use the head...and all the parts that people don't want. Dunno how true...
i didnt know can make chicken essence like that. wow..good leh.
Love this post! Thanks, Pete, for sharing the tip and trick.
yes, this is our mother's way of doing it...i use the double decker pot.. zebra brand..been with me for many many years.. lol..
Wow! This is totally new to me and very useful too! Thanks so much!
Oh...Pete..I badly need this. I played too much badminton and feel a little exhausted today. I remember my mom used to make this essence for us. It tasted A1.
Hehe... this used to be my favourite side dish during confinement, awesomely nice!
have a pleasant day ahead!
Errr... I have one problem. I don't like to eat a chicken without its skin. Hehehe
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my MIL did for me a few times but she had passed away for quite some time already.
Great post and thanks for the advice! Very good!
your diagram is very helpful in understanding your directions
How extraordinary! I've never heard of this! I liked your drawing and am anxious to try it!
You very good husband, dad and your mum.
May be you patent your soup.
Do you used black chicken?
Sonia : Agree , very tasty
Manglish : Bak hu real easy to make....next round come back can tar pau to Hiroshima...LOL!
Ling : I like it too
Pfx : Ha ha, agree, they have been biking all day...
STP : Commercial ones sure put everything inside to save cost.
smallkucing : Drink a lot sure become chubby chubby wan....
Angie : Welcome..
Claire : Zebra brand is good can last
TasteofBeirut : Try it, real nice
Mary : Wah, active Badminton player...need double chicken inside...LOL!
Alice : Wah, confinement get to eat all the good stuff....
Willie : I checked out your new blog but it is loading real slow leh...
Wenn: Oh, sorry to hear that. But it is quite easy to make.
Pam : Good for health
Christine : I drew it using MS Paint....LOL
Barbara : Thks for dropping by my blog....very healthy dish
Sharon : Good for young ladies like you also...
Ann : Black chicken would be a little too small. Black chicken is more suitable for cooking with Chinese herbs....I used kampung chicken (free range) chicken for this one.
awww, interesting!! i guess this is how Brand's make the chicken essense?? hmmm, maybe they add in more things.. :p
SK : I would want to visit their factory one day to find out...LOL!
LOVED it.
It was very easy, and when I plugged it into Sparkpeople was surprised at how low the calories were considering the ingredients.
wah this one very "POU"
i learned something new today =)
wow, u've made it from scratch with malay/ kampung chicken...
what a superior stock...
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