Kick It Immune Boosting Chicken Soup |
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Prep Time: 20 Minutes Cook Time: 120 Minutes |
Ready In: 140 Minutes Servings: 10 |
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This is a hearty, spicy chicken soup that will give your immune system a huge boost and (in my opinion) kick any cold or flu!!!!! It does have a bite!! I cook this up at the sign of a cold and it does the trick. You can opt not to use the chilli - however Chilli gives your metabolism a hit and also shakes up any nasty mucus on your chest. Ingredients:
1 roasting chicken, skin, bones, the whole deal |
2 large onions |
10 garlic cloves |
10 g fresh gingerroot (use to taste) |
2 chilies (discard seeds for less heat) |
2 stalks celery |
2 carrots |
1 cup diced sweet potatoes (or both) or 1 cup parsnip (or both) |
1 cup shiitake mushroom |
1 cup soup mix |
pearl barley |
red kidney beans |
split peas |
black-eyed peas |
green lentil |
1 1/2-2 liters chicken stock |
Directions:
1. Dice onions, chilli, ginger and sweet potato/parsnip.
2. Dice or crush garlic.
3. Slice celery, carrots.
4. Wash chicken inside and out and place into a large stock pot.
5. Put all ingredients into the pot and cover with chicken stock.
6. Bring soup to the boil, then simmer for approx 2 - 2.5 hours or until the chicken falls of the bone.
7. (I use a pressure cooker to cook mine for approx 1 hr).
8. Pull chicken out of soup and discard all bones and large clumps of fat.
9. Return chicken meat to soup.
10. For a variation, try adding a ham hock to the ingredients as well!
11. This chicken soup does have a bite, but it it will sweat out all those nasty cold bugs!
12. Enjoy!
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