Korean Chicken soup_ bagsook(백숙) or samgyetang(삼계탕)

  There is a tradition of eating chicken soup at a hot summer day in Korea. That will make you sweat, but the nutrition from chicken will keep you healthy in the hot and humid summer of Korea.

  I like this chicken soup very much myself, and I heard that the Korean chicken soup is always a popluar menu of my husband's non-korean-nationality freinds.

  The soup of my recipe is actually something between samgyetang(삼계탕 ginseng chicken soup) and bagsook; a little bit away from authentic recipes.  As a mother of fourteen month baby, it sould be quick and easy. So the recipe goes quick and easy, and it is tasty!

Ingredients
must-have:  Small chicken,  sweet rice (sweet rice or sticky rice is recommended, normal rice will do, annam rice is not good), a dozen cloves of garlic
good to have: several jujubes, green onion, one or two small ginseng
special tool:  electric pressure cooker

How to cook
1. Wash your chicken and other ingredients.
1-1. If you use sweet rice instead of rice, you need to soak the sweet rice for more than 3hour.

2. Stuff the chicken with rice and garlic. Do not forget garlic. If you have jujubes and ginsengs, stuff them. Then you can call your chicken soup a samgyetang(삼계탕), as the 'sam(삼)' means ginseng.
2-1. I like the rice part of this chicken soup, so I just put the rest of rice in the pot with the stuffed chicken. Put the rest of garlic, too. That may not look good, but I do not care.


3. Place it in a electric pressure cooker. Pour water, be careful not to pour water too much. Follow the gradation of your cooker. As the chicken take the space of your cooker, you won't need much water.
Set the menu to any kinds of 'zzim(찜)' or 'steam', set the timer as 45 minute.
Now forget it and do something else till the alarm of cooker calls you.
3-1. If you do not have electric pressure cooker, place it in a pot.  Pour water in the pot and boil it over a high heat until it start boiling. Once it starts boiling, keep boiling about one hour over medium heat. Pour more water if you need.

4. Make sure if it cooked properly, especially the rice inside of  the chicken. Poke a chopstick to the chicken.

5. Add some green onion, salt and pepper.

Enjoy your chicken soup!