Chicken Legs 8 pieces Soaked Shiitake Mushrooms 8 flowers
Soaked day lily 50 grams Red dates 50 grams
Zanthoxylum bungeanum 10 grams Aniseed 10 grams
Scallions Several Ginger slices Several
Cooking wine One tablespoon
How to make chicken leg soup Illustration of how to make nourishing chicken leg soup in winter 1

Step 1

Wash the chicken legs, put them into the pot with cold water, and wait until they are eight times cooked.Remove from time to time and remove blood foam and impurities. Illustration of how to make nourishing chicken leg soup in winter 2

Step 2

Dried day lily soaked Illustration of how to make nourishing chicken leg soup in winter 3

Step 3

Soaked Mushrooms Illustration of how to make nourishing chicken leg soup in winter 4

Step 4

Prepare scallions, ginger slices, and red dates slices Illustration of how to make nourishing chicken leg soup in winter 5

Step 5

Put water in a pot, bring to a boil, add the blanched chicken drumsticks, peppercorns, aniseed, green onions, ginger slices, and cooking wine, and bring to a boil. Winter nourishing chicken leg soup recipe illustration 6

Step 6

After simmering the chicken legs for 20 minutes, add the soaked day lily, mushrooms, and red dates into the pot and simmer over low heat for an hour.

Step 7

Finally, add salt to taste and sprinkle with a few chives when serving.

Step 8

The delicious quick chicken soup is ready... No cooking oil is added in the whole process, and the chicken legs themselves don't have a lot of fat, so don't worry about the soup being oily.

Step 9

Pair it with a bowl of white rice for a delicious meal... Chicken leg soup cooking tips