Chicken Soup with Bitter Melon and Pineapple (Taiwanese Cuisine)

Name: Chicken Soup with Bitter Melon and Pineapple (Taiwanese Cuisine)
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 700 g Chicken on the bone (Cut into pieces); 1/2 bitter melon; 1/4 pineapple; 1 thumb of ginger; 1500 ml water; 3 tsp salt (or to taste); 10 g wolfberry (optional); 1 tbsp rice wine

Jasmine @cook_17177537

You can call this soup is "vision protection cuisine".
Bitter melon got high levels of vitamin A , helps improve "eye health", lower risk of macular degeneration and cataract formations.
Recent reports that pineapple can reduces symptoms of "eye floaters".
Wolfberry is traditional Chinese medicine. Also a ingredients of dish. It can improve eyesight.
Except for eye health, these three ingredients can lower cholesterol levels, and control diabetes.
Of course, it is delicious, the white bitter melon not that bitter than green one.

Jasmine @cook_17177537

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Ingredients

700 gChicken on the bone (Cut into pieces)
1/2bitter melon
1/4pineapple
1thumb of ginger
1500 mlwater
3 tspsalt (or to taste)
10 gwolfberry (optional)
1 tbsprice wine

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Steps

1

Blanch chicken in hot water for 3 minutes.
2

Cut bitter melon into half lengthwise, remove the white spongy part and seeds then cut into pieces, pineapple into thick slices. Cut ginger into slices. Rinse and soak wolfberries for 10 minutes.
3

Mix all ingredients in a soup pot (except wolfberry), Pour 1500 ml of water in the pot to cook over high heat, When boil, turn down to low heat, cover and cook for 40 minutes.
4

Before serve, add salt to taste. Garnish with wolfberries.