Kill Anything Immune-boosting Chicken Soup
Plurk-friend Rori sent me this recipe via email after I commented about having come down with yet another pesky throat infection. This makes my second this year, I usually average about 2.5/pa. After some quick searching I found a version on a website too but the original came in an email. Find it here under the Staying Healthy this winter sub-heading.
It sounded rather dangerous and I excitedly gathered all in the ingredients today after work. Skipped the onion as they don’t like me a terrible lot and despite my initial reservations did include 2 chillis. I’m something of a wimp when it comes to facing down with anything chilli.
As the whole idea of making soup came from my Plurk community I decided to post pictures to BrightKite of the process and crosspost the same pictures back to Plurk. It was a bit of fun for me and I got to combine two things which I find a lot of fun, being a geek and cooking. The results were spectacular, all the garlic was either softened to the ‘melt in your mouth’ point or had been absorbed into the broth, chilli was flavoursome but only very minor burn inducing. Anticipating it burning a lot more I made toast which wasn’t needed at all.
For all you people who are too busy to get sick, I can highly recommend spending 1.5hrs making this up. It’s delicious, potent, and will make 4-6 meals depending on portion size. I’m not sure who Becky-Lee Reed is but I’m thankful for her recipe and Rori for sending it to me.
Maybe Schnubbs can give it a try next time one of his housemates is unwell or starting to feel that way.
Update (June 2009): as I mentioned pictures I should probably add some or at least links. So here are the BrightKite links to my photos I took and posted as I prepared. I haz a flava; It’s got chicken legs; Stocking up and Soup-erficial success story.
July 14th, 2008 at 22:54
Hey Ali! Thanks for posting this, I was going to ask for the recipe and noticed you had blogged about it!
I hope it does the trick and you are feeling better really soon!
July 14th, 2008 at 23:03
That looks like an interesting soup. If onions disagree with you, try leeks. They have a nice flavour which I find works well in soups. Onions are a bit overpowering. Plus, they are low impact on the system as far as sensitivities go. Also, brown rice is a healthy alternative to wheat pasta. Keep on cookin’.
August 1st, 2008 at 11:59
Hiya,
I have a version of this that uses Miso as the base for the soup rather than chicken stock. Just as yummy and works really well!
October 14th, 2009 at 11:38
Chicken Soup is one of my favorite dishes of all time. it is very tasty and the ingredients are very available. sometimes i put a dash of chili over my chicken soup because i like it spicy hot.