Black Chicken Ginseng Soup - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 black roasting chicken, whole, skinned and cut into big chunks
1 teaspoon salt
50 g ginseng roots, cut up (or 1 3/4 oz)
1/8 cup dried Chinese wolfberries (Or Tibetan Gouji Berry, or Lycium chinense, it's all the same)
15 seeded dried chinese dates (Hongzao)
8 cups water

Preparation

Rub chicken chunks with salt and let stand 10 minutes.
Put all ingredients into an earthenware pot (or crock-pot) and bring to a boil.
Reduce heat to low and let simmer, covered, for 3 1/2 hours.