Immune Support Chicken Soup
This is a ‘clean’ purifying soup to sooth your respiratory tract and support immune system.
Ingredients
- 1 onion cut into chunks
- 1 organic celery stalk roughly chopped
- 1 organic carrot roughly chopped
- 4 oz peeled scrubbed ginger sliced
- 1 tsp cayenne
- 1 garlic clove crushed
- 5 whole black peppercorns
- 2 sprigs fresh rosemary
- 1/2 fresh lemon
- 2 free range organic chicken legs with thighs, skin and bones
- 2 quarts spring water (Still)
- 1 fresh parsley garnish
Instructions
- Combine onion, celery, ginger, carrot, garlic, and peppercorns in a large heavy pot. Add chicken,
- Add 6 quarts water (preferably filtered or spring water); bring to a boil over medium-high heat
- Add cayenne, the lemon and rosemary. Cover with lid slightly ajar
- After 20 mins Remove lid reduce heat to low; simmer, uncovered, until broth is fully flavored, about 2 ½hours longer. (Can also cook in crock-pot)
- Remove chicken legs from broth. When cool enough to handle, discard any skin and bones, and coarsely shred meat.
- Place a fine-mesh sieve over another large pot; strain broth, discarding solids in strainer.
- Place a fine-mesh sieve over another large pot; strain broth, discarding solids in strainer.
- NOTE: unlike most soups do not brown onion and vegetables in oil first.