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Din Tai Fung’s Steamed Chicken Soup (Home-Cook Recipe)

Din Tai Fung is my favorite Chinese restaurant. The food quality at Din Tai Fung is consistently good. 

Out of 10 of My Favorite Din Tai Fung Dishes, I want to put the spotlight on Steamed Chicken Soup. Everytime I order this soup, I am always amazed how such a clear soup can have such depth of flavor.

I decided to try to make this soup at home. After trying a few times, I realize this soup is not as difficult to make as I imagined and it can be easily made at home. 

I present to you:

Din Tai Fung’s Steamed Chicken Soup (Home-Cook Recipe)

Steamed Chicken Soup - Ingredients

Ingredients: 

  • 2 drumsticks, chopped into small pieces (IMPORTANT: make sure to use fresh chicken, not frozen chicken) 
  • 2 stalks of scallion/green onion, wash and cut into short stalks 
  • 7 slices of ginger
  • 2 tablespoons rice wine
  • 1 teaspoon salt 

Let’s start cooking:

Steamed Chicken Soup - Step 1

  1. Fill a small pot half with water, put in chopped drumsticks and 2 slices of ginger, bring to boil. 
  2. Once the water boils, take out the chicken and ginger slices.
    Steamed Chicken Soup - Step 2
  3. Throw away the ginger slices and wash the chicken in cold water (to wash away the blood water).

    Steamed Chicken Soup - Step 3

  4. Sieve the boiled chicken stock into crockery pot, put the washed chicken pieces back into the pot, add in 4 slices of ginger and shallot/green onion stalks. 
  5. Add in rice wine and salt and cook for 2 hours.

    Steamed Chicken Soup

This chicken soup has 70-80% similarity to Din Tai Fung’s Steamed Chicken Soup. 

Give this recipe a try and let me know how your chicken soup is. 

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