Hmong Yaj Secret Chicken Soup Recipe

I learned how to make this when I was just a little boy.

First, you get a pot of water, then you add your chicken (my favorite is the cornish game hen. you can find it in the frozen food area in most grocery stores).

Add a lot of lemon grass that you've cut in to halves (or large enough to sit in the pot but easy enough to remove later). The trick is to smash the lemon grass a few times to release the flavor but not enough so you can't easily remove it (you're not going to eat the lemon grass). Now, add some salt and let the water boil to cook the chicken.

As the blood is released, it will collect at the top of the water as a brown substance. If that bothers you, just skim it off.

Before you serve it, taste it. If it doesn't have enough salt, add some more. Hopefully, you did not add too much salt. Remove the lemon grass.

Finally, right before you serve it, add some crush black pepper.

So, here it is again...

1 x cornish game hen (or any chicken you want to use)
lots of lemon grass (use as much as you would like the lemon grass flavor)
some salt
some pepper