Yen Can Cook: Spring Onion Chicken Soup
Soup is crucial dish in every Chinese household and I’m blessed with mom’s home cooked soup since my childhood. Now as a mother, I also try my best to prepare soup for my family at least once a week because nothing beats a nice hot bowl of soup made with love♥ ♥ ♥ …..
Apart from the Chinese boiled soup which need long hours of simmer, I also whip up simple boiled soup (滚汤) which can be readied in less than 20 minutes such as THIS and THIS. Today I’m going to share another quick boiled soup recipe which I learnt from a video shared by a Taiwanese celebrity chef ~ 詹姆士James. For those who understand Mandarin and interested to watch the original video, you may click into HERE
Only two main ingredients are needed in this super simple recipe (simple is my style ^__^) ~ spring onion and chicken chop.
Ingredients (Serve: 2-3)
2 boneless chicken chop
2-3 bunches of spring onion
Cooking oil (skip this if you use non-stick pan)
1000ml water
Salt and pepper to taste
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Step 1: Clean the spring onion thoroughly, cut then put into the bowl you want to serve your soup.
Step 2: Clean the chicken chop, pat dry with kitchen towel. Heat up a deep skillet, put in cooking oil (omit the cooking oil if you are using non-stick pan), place the chicken chop with skin side down on the pan. Pay fry till the skin is golden brown then remove from the pan.
Step 3: Remove the excess oil released from the pan fry chicken skin. Cut the chicken chop (Step 2) into pieces then put back into the same pan. Stir fry for 1-2 minutes.
Step 4: Add in hot water then let it boil until the chicken pieces are fully cooked. Season with salt and pepper. Pour the soup and chicken into the bowl filled with chopped spring onion (Step 1) and serve.
If you love the fragrant and mild heat from spring onion, this will definitely tickle your taste bud perfectly!
HAPPY COOKING!
Wow!! This the most super easy soup to make. I am home alone now and sure can make this.
TM, it’s super easy right? I never cook those complicated dishes LOL
Good and simple! I happen to love spring onions, so thumbs up from me.
PH, it’s better if you have some home grown spring onion in your garden, have you planted some?
Love this soup you prepared!
I like having soup for my meals.
CY, are you Cantonese? ^_^
Melissa, I’m “Gao Zhou” 高洲人 but I speak Cantonese with my family, why ar?
Cantonese usually like soup ma…LOL LOL :-p
simple & comforting, I like!
KY, try to cook it!
it’s nice how every family has its own recipe for chicken soup … and this is one recipe you can pass on to the next generation in your family! 🙂
Sean, although this recipe is not from my family but I’ll definitely pass on to my daughter, provided that she interested in cooking =.=”
I love spring onions….so I’d enjoy this soup for sure. This is basically a chicken soup sprinkled with lots of spring onions. Only difference is that the chicken is seared first which I believe is what gives the soup the extra flavour. I don’t know how to chop chicken, so I’ll probably just use skinless chicken pieces and add water directly….hee…hee! 😉
Kris, I think the flavour would be different if you sprinkle the spring onion on top as the spring onion this recipe is slightly “cooked” by the hot soup. No chopping skill is needed here because I’m using boneless chicken thigh 🙂