Chicken Stock

Chicken stock is an 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. Small wonder, then that from the Imperial kitchens to the most humble food stalls, good stock is a basic ingredient. The usual Chinese chicken stock is precisely that: the essence of chicken, with complements of ginger and spring onions often added. Combined with the condiments that give Chinese food it