Chicken Vegetable Soup
This soup is delicious and filing, plus you reap a multitude of benefits from cooking the chicken bones in the broth, the vegetables, eggs, and herbs. This is a great soup for when someone is sick. The eggs give it a egg drop soup taste and make it thick and hardy.
Dovetailing Tip 1: After the chicken is cooked in the soup and you have deboned it and chopped it up, save out 1 1/2 cups of the chicken to use in the Tacos for Meal 3.
Dovetailing Tip 2: When chopping up the vegetables for today's soup, chop up extra to add to the Loaded Veggie Cheesy Pasta Bake for Meal 2.
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Ingredients:
| whole chicken or a few chicken legs or a few chicken breast, bone in | |
| 3 to 4 ribs | celery |
| 3 to 4 | arge carrots |
| 2 | medium onions |
| 5 to 6 | garlic cloves |
| 1 bag | fresh spinach |
| 1 head | broccoli or 1 bag frozen |
| 1 package | sliced fresh mushrooms (optional) |
| any other vegetable you have around and want to add | |
| 5 to 6 | eggs, beaten in a bowl |
| 1 tablespoon | turmeric |
| 1 tablespoon | curry powder |
| 1 tablespoon | oregano, or 2 T fresh |
| 1 tablespoon | dried basil, or 2 T fresh |
| 1/4 teaspoon | cayenne pepper, or to taste |
| 1 | handful chopped parsley |
| sea salt | |
| pepper | |
| garlic powder (optional) | |
| other herbs to taste (rosemary, thyme,etc.) | |
Directions:
Cover chicken with water in a large pot. Boil chicken in large pot until cooked. (note: if using chicken breast instead of whole chicken, chicken broth can be used in place of water). Remove from water and chop into small pieces.
Add chopped celery, carrots, onions, garlic cloves to boiling water. Add turmeric, curry, oregano, basil, cayenne, parsley, sea salt, pepper and garlic or herbs to the boiling water. I add 1-2 TBSP of each except cayenne, which I add about 1/2 tsp or to taste.
Boil until vegetables are cooked. add spinach, mushrooms and broccoli. While stirring, add beaten eggs slowly so that they distribute (it will look similar to egg drop soup). Boil 2 minutes until eggs cooked, remove from heat and serve.
Source: wellnessmama.com
