Chicken, white fungus & apple soup

Chicken, White Fungus & Apple Soup

Ingredient
3 apples
1 to 1.2 kg of chicken (1 whole piece)
1/3 piece of dried tangerine peel
45 gm of white fungus
5 bowls of water
salt to taste

Method
1. Soak White fungus thoroughly. Trim away the hard tissue. Scald and rinse. Wash apples, cut into 4 pieces and remove core.

2. Wash chicken, remove the fats inside. Rub the skin and whole body with a bit of salt or with light soya sauce. Parboil for 3 mins. Dish up and drain dry.

3. Soak and clean dried tangerine peel.

4. Put tangerine peel to a pot of 5 bowls water to boil. Once it boil, add apples and chicken to cook.

5. High fire to cook for first 30 mins, after 30 mins add in white fungus then reduce to low fire to cook for another 1 hour.

6. Total time to boil the soup for 1 hour 30 mins.

7. Season with salt to taste.