Recipe - American-Oriental Chicken Soup

6 cup Chicken Stock
or canned Chicken Broth
1 sl Fresh Ginger (2"); julienned
2 bn Green Onions
diagonally cut or sliced up
into 1/2in pieces
2 Celery stalks
cut diagonally
in thin slices
2 cup Cooked Chicken;
torn into bitesized pieces
2 tablespoon Soy sauce
1 teaspoon Hoisin sauce
1 cn Sliced water chestnuts (8oz)
drained
Salt
Freshly ground pepper

PUT THE CHICKEN STOCK in a soup pot and set over high heat. Add the ginger,
green onions and celery. Bring to the boil, reduce heat, and simmer 10
minutes. Add the chicken, soy sauce and hoisin sauce and simmer 5 minutes.
Add the water chestnuts. Taste for seasoning and add salt and pepper. Serve
hot. May be made ahead a day. This freezes fine for a leftover. Don't
freeze it for making an impression.

Makes 6 to 8