smoked duck/chicken soup

Ingredients:

- 1 black mushroom leaf (soaked in warm water)

- 5-6 perfumed mushrooms  (soaked in warm water)

- small onion (sliced thin)

- green onion stalks (cut green part of stalks into small slices)

- carrot (diced into small pieces)

- shallot (sliced thin)

- 4-6 dried shrimp

- Japanese fish pellets (if available)

- thickening cubes or powder (bột năng or bột sắn dây)

- smoked duck leg

(1)

- remove duck meat from bones and put aside

- make broth from duck bones, shallot cut into thin slices, dried shrimp, and fish pellets

- strain broth when done

(2)

- add meat and all other ingredients except green onion slices to the broth

- dissolve thickening cubes or powder in a glass of water and add to soup

- bring soup to a boil, add green onion slices and serve