Basic Homemade Chicken Stock

Chicken stock is the all-purpose base for soups and sauces. Its chief ingredient is inexpensive; it is light and delicious; and it marries well with other foods, enhancing and sustaining them. I have found this basic Chinese homemade chicken stock to be precisely that: the essence of chicken, with fusion complements of ginger and spring onions. It works very well with Thai flavours.

A stock so prepared serves as a reminder that stock can also be used as a clear soup. I find that the