Chicken Soup with Chinese Flavors from Soup: A Way of Life by Barbara Kafka

Name: Chicken Soup with Chinese Flavors from Soup: A Way of Life by Barbara Kafka
Ingredients: ¼ pound (120 g) Chinese smoked ham, Smithfield ham, or any hard smoked ham, cut into ½-inch (1-cm) dice; ½ ounce (15 g) dried shiitake mushrooms; ½ cup (60 g) hair-thin strips peeled ginger; ½ ounce (15 g) dried wood ear mushrooms; 4 teaspoons kosher salt; 10 medium scallions, white and light green parts cut across into 1-inch (2.5-cm) pieces, plus enough of the dark green thinly sliced across to make ½ cup (45 g), for serving; 2 cups (500 ml) boiling water; 4 cardamom pods, seeds only; One 4- pound (1.8- kg) chicken

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This soup produces 9 cups (2.2 l) of broth and a whole chicken. The chicken can be served in the traditional Chinese mode for steamed poultry, letting the guests serve themselves from a platter wit...

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Ingredients

¼ pound (120 g) Chinese smoked ham, Smithfield ham, or any hard smoked ham, cut into ½-inch (1-cm) dice
½ ounce (15 g) dried shiitake mushrooms
½ cup (60 g) hair-thin strips peeled ginger
½ ounce (15 g) dried wood ear mushrooms
4 teaspoons kosher salt
10 medium scallions, white and light green parts cut across into 1-inch (2.5-cm) pieces, plus enough of the dark green thinly sliced across to make ½ cup (45 g), for serving
2 cups (500 ml) boiling water
4 cardamom pods, seeds only
One 4- pound (1.8- kg) chicken