PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide instant chicken ginseng soup which allows a user to eat chicken ginseng soup having a texture at instant and a production method thereof.SOLUTION: Instant chicken ginseng soup which is formed by smoking processing using a quercus acutissima chip and a production method thereof are configured so that: a subsidiary material is put into an abdominal cavity of chicken; the chicken is put into a smoking-boiling machine; in the state, a quercus acutissima chip comprising almost 5-20% of moisture is burned for 1-10 minutes at temperature of 60-80°C for generating smoke; then, a surface of the chicken is subjected to smoking processing and sterilization processing by the smoke generated from the quercus acutissima chip; then the chicken is rapidly frozen.SELECTED DRAWING: None【課題】食感のある参鶏湯を即席で取食できるようにした、即席参鶏湯及びその製造方法の提供。【解決手段】鶏肉の腹腔内に副材料を入れた後、鶏肉を薫煙煮熟機に入れた状態で、水気含量が5~20%程度のクヌギチップを60~80℃の温度で1~10分間焼いて煙を発生させ、クヌギチップから発生した煙によって鶏肉の表面が薫煙処理、殺菌処理され、更に急速凍結することを特徴とする、クヌギチップで薫煙処理した即席参鶏湯、及びその製造方法。【選択図】なし