Chicken soup with chye sim

Ingredients

1 bunch of chye sim, washed and cut into 2 inch lengths
carcass of 2 chicken
1 large carrot, sliced
1 chicken thigh, skinned removed
5-6 cups water
salt to taste


Method:

1. Bring water and bones to boil before lowering heat to simmer for about 2 hours total.

2. Cook chicken meat with the bones for about 20 min or until meat is cooked, remove and soak in cold water for 1 min. Once cooled, use a fork and shred the meat into smaller pieces.

3. Add chye sim stalks to cook for last 10 min and add the leaves 5 mins later.

4. When ready, add salt to taste.


Bench notes - Instead of chicken bones, other alternatives are pork bones, lean pork meat or chicken thigh (remove skin). If using pork meat/bones, scald/blanch it in boiling water for 5 min first to remove scum before using it in the soup. For the purist, kampong or free-range chicken can be used instead! Alternatively can cook the above with ikan billis (aka anchovies) soup.