I had been wanting to make samgyetang but I couldn’t find jujube or ginseng. It is a traditional Korean dish that Koreans like to eat in summer. Yesterday after the church service, my mother and I decided to go to a Korean store. I saw this herb mix for samgyetang and I was elated!

Ingredients:

• 1 whole chicken
• spring onion
• rice
• garlic
• jujube
• ginseng (/herbal mix – milkvetch root, angelica root, mulberry bark, Siberian ginseng, jujube)
• 1/2 tbsp salt (You don’t have to add salt because the dip is already salty but I just didn’t want it to be bland.)

I put the washed rice, garlic, and some of the herbs in the chicken’s cavity. The rest of the mix, I put in the soup/broth.

Ingredients:

• soy sauce
• apple cider vinegar
• sugar
• sesame oil
• onion

Recipe source: Maangchi

Samgyetang has a clean taste. It’s perfect the rainy day. It has been raining nonstop here in Naga since yesterday morning.