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From olden times, samgyethang or a dish of chicken hard boiled with insam has been known as one of the traditional foods good for promoting health and invigorating the body.

Samgyethang is a soup made by boiling chicken and insam, the main ingredients, with chestnuts, jujubes, gingko nuts, a whole bulb of garlic and other additional materials.

To make the dish, a fat hen is parboiled in hot water and stuffed with insam. It is then put in a saucepan and boiled after pouring hot water until the whole chicken is immersed.

When the chicken is fully cooked, it is cut into small pieces after removing the bones.

Insam is cut into thin slices. 

And then put the chicken cuts and insam slices in a bowl, pour chicken stock in it and sprinkle salt mixed with parched sesame seeds on the food before serving.

For the main ingredients, insam dug out five to six days earlier and young black chicken weighing some 500g are preferred. 

The traditional Korean dish of samgyethang is served at many public catering establishments.

The recipe for samgyethang was registered as a national intangible cultural heritage element last year.