Malaysian

Sup Herba Ayam (Herbal Chicken Soup)

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Sup Herba Ayam (Herbal Chicken Soup) is Malaysian home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre and the soup. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

75 min Easy Halal Gluten free Dairy free

Ingredients

Serves
6

The quantities follow this count.

How to cook it

  1. Rinse the goji berries and red dates.

  2. Blanch the chicken in boiling water 2 minutes to remove impurities, then drain and rinse.

  3. Combine the chicken, ginger, red dates, and water in a pot and bring to a boil.

  4. Skim off any foam, reduce to a gentle simmer, cover, and cook 50 minutes.

  5. Add the goji berries and simmer 10 minutes more.

  6. Season with the salt.

  7. Ladle into bowls and serve hot.

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Serve it with

A Malaysian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Sup Herba Ayam (Herbal Chicken Soup), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Sup Herba Ayam (Herbal Chicken Soup) carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.

Every tracked allergen in Sup Herba Ayam (Herbal Chicken Soup)
Allergen In this dish
Peanuts No
Tree nuts No
Dairy No
Gluten No
Shellfish No
Eggs No
Soy No
Fish No
Sesame No
Coconut No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories
150 kcal
Protein
16 g
Carbs
8 g
Fat
6 g
Fiber
1 g
Sugar
5 g
Sodium
390 mg
Saturated fat
2 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Sup Herba Ayam (Herbal Chicken Soup) takes about 75 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.

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