Cordyceps militaris in chicken soup

Ingredients

1 Chicken
30grams cordyceps militaris
8 pieces of mushrooms (presoaked)
Handful of small scallops (presoaked)
2 tablespoon wolfberries
8 seedless red dates
2 honey dates
2 slices of jin hua ham
1500ml water
salt

Method

1) Remove chicken skin, trim fats.  Wash and cut into chunks.
2) Blanch chicken
3) Bring water to boil.  Put all the ingredients except wolfberries into 1500ml of water.
4) a) For thermal pot, let it boil for 15mins over stove before putting into outer pot.
    b) For slow cooker, let it boil for 10mins on high before simmering for 2hours.
5) For thermal pot cooking, let it boil for 4-6 hours, usually I'll boil the night before and heat it up in the morning again and have it for the 2nd day's dinner.
6) Heat thermal pot soup, or switch on high for slow cooker and add wolfberries and boil for another 5mins.
7) Add salt to taste if desired.