7. Chicken Soup for the Soul ;)

This dish is proven to have healing properties to mild ailments such as fever, cough, sore throat and flu. Do try it! (Serves 4)

Ingredients:
1 medium size chicken (cut into 16 parts and cleaned)
2 carrots, peeled and diced
2 potatoes, peeled and diced
2 cardamom
2 star anise
1 cinnamon stalk
4 clove
6 shallots
3 cloves of garlic
2 inches ginger
4 cups of chicken broth
1 cup of recently boiled water
4 cups of hot water
4 tablespoon of oil
Salt, sugar and pepper
Few sprigs of spring onion and parsley, chopped
Fried shallots (@bawang goreng)

Method:

1. Put shallots, garlic and ginger into the blender and mash it finely
2. Combine the cardamom, star anise, cinnamon and clove into 1 cup of recently boiled water. After it sits for 5 minutes, remove the items from the water and put aside
3. In a big pot, heat oil and sauté the aromatics. When it browns, add the four spices together with the chicken. Stir well for about 10 minutes
4. Add 4 cups of hot water (or more to cover the chicken) and the 4 spices-infused-water, and let the soup simmer until the chicken is 3/4 cooked
5. Add in the carrots, potatoes and the chicken broth
6. When the chicken is tender, add salt, sugar and pepper to taste
7. Turn off the burner, add in the spring onion, parsley, fried shallots and put the lid on for ten minutes. This is to allow the aroma of the spring onion, parsley and fried shallots permeate into the soup
8. You may serve it with bread or anything that you/your partner likes! :)