Fleece Flower Root Black Bean Soup Recipe
Fleece Flower Root Black Bean soup is well known for its benefit in darkening hair color. It eases symptoms of premature aging, such as blurred vision, hair greying, weak knees and sore lower back.
Prep Time: 0 min
Cook Time: 1 hr
Total Time: 1 hr
Yield: 5 servings
Ingredients
(A)
1500g water
500g chicken carcass / bones
1 tsp fine sea salt
(B)
70g black beans
30g black dates
20g dried longan
15g fleece flower root (he shou wu)
10g codonopsis root (dang shen)
10g astragalus root (huang qi)
Instructions
Put water in large stock pot. Bring it to a boil. Add chicken carcass. Add black beans, black dates, dried longan, fleece flower root, codonopsis root and astragalus root. Cover and simmer for 1 hour. Add salt. Bring it to a boil. Turn off the heat. Serve hot.
Tips: We use chicken carcass/bones to cook this soup. You can replace the chicken carcass/bones with chicken thighs if you like. The cooking time can be adjusted according to personal preference, the longer the cooking time, the more intense the taste will be.