Easy yo prepare and good for soul! mom usually prepares this if someone in the family is ill and doesn't feel like solid food. we love just drinking the soup! (the chicken meat is sometimes ignored and our our dog gets i with satisfaction...) if you don't have an earthenware (claypot), a regular ccoking pot will do teh trick as well.

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Fragrant Stewed Chicken (Fujian style)

Materials:
one fat hen (virginia ham is OK, but use the ones has more fat.)
two soaked Xianggu mushrooms (dried chinese black mushrooms)
two slices of ham
5 cloves
50g sorghum wine (or regular chinese cooking wine)

Preparations:
Clean the chicken. Cut it open from the back. Cut three times crosswise.
Put into a stewing earthen bowl with the backside down. Pile the ham slices and mushrooms on the chicken.
Add condiments, and chicken soup. Add a cup containing sorghum wine and cloves.
Secure the lid and steam for two hours, remove the cup.