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Samgyetang

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Samgyetang is a traditional Korean soup built around a whole young chicken or quail stuffed with garlic, rice, jujube, mung bean and ginseng, and is also known in English as ginseng chicken soup. It is traditionally considered a health food and serves as a representative dish eaten in the heat of summer to help the body cope with hot weather. Variants include yeonggye baeksuk, made with a slightly larger chicken, and banggye-tang, in which the chicken is divided in half before cooking. It is typically served hot or warm, with jujube and glutinous rice among the ingredients generally used.

Facts
Origin Period, From (Year)
from 1940 1
Sourced to the subject's own accountYear commercial restaurant sale of the dish began, under the earlier name gyesam-tang; today's whole-ginseng samgyetang form was reached by the 1960s (see origin-end-year).
Origin RegionSourced to the subject's own account
Korea 1
Origin Period, To (Year)
to 1960 1
Sourced to the subject's own accountYear the whole-ginseng samgyetang form now standard became the common preparation, once refrigeration allowed whole ginseng to be stored rather than powdered.
Classification
CourseSourced to the subject's own account
Soup 1
Dietary SuitabilitySourced to the subject's own account
Contains Meat or Poultry 1
Sources
1. Samgye-tang (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia
  • lead section
    is a tang (Korean soup) that consists primarily of a whole young chicken (poussin) or quail filled with garlic, rice, jujube, mung bean, and ginseng.
  • History section, third paragraph
    The dish began to be commercially sold at restaurants around 1940s and under the name gyesam-tang
  • History section, third paragraph, commercial-sale sentence
    The dish began to be commercially sold at restaurants around 1940s and under the name gyesam-tang
  • History section, third paragraph, refrigeration sentence
    since 1960s, it became more common to stuff the chicken with a whole piece of ginseng instead of powder, reaching today's form of the dish.
  • entity record, SubLabel (course)
    SubLabel: Soups and Broths
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samgye-tang (dietary-suitability)
    Samgye-tang (Korean: 삼계탕), or ginseng chicken soup is a tang that consists primarily of a whole young chicken (poussin) or quail filled with garlic, rice, jujube, mung bean, and ginseng.
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