Healing Chicken Soup
 
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Infusing herbs and aromatics into plain chicken stock makes a rich soup base full of flavor and vitamins. Use garnishes to make it special, the perfect thing to cheer up a friend who's under the weather.
Recipe type: Main Dishes
Occasion: Care Packages
Serves: 4-6
Ingredients
  • Fortify the base
  • 1 quart chicken stock (preferably homemade but the box will do)
  • 1 carrot, peeled and cut into thirds
  • 1 large celery stick, peeled and cut into thirds
  • 2 scallions, trimmed
  • 3 stems cilantro
  • 3 mushrooms, trimmed and sliced
  • 5 peppercorns
  • 3 cloves garlic, peeled and sliced
  • ½” piece of ginger, about the circumference of a quarter, peeled and sliced
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 1 jalapeño, split down the middle (optional for heat)
  • 1 teaspoon salt or to taste
Instructions
  1. Place everything in a deep sauce pan over medium heat and bring to a boil.
  2. Cover and simmer for 10 minutes.
  3. Remove from heat and steep for at least an hour.
  4. To serve, strain soup base and then bring back to a boil. Add garnishes and more salt if desired and cook for a minute until the vegetables have softened a bit. Fancy it upHere is a list of foods to use as garnishes. Cutting counts here so take your time and make them pretty. Mix and match however you want - they all taste great.thinly sliced mushroomscurls of carrots made with a vegetable peelercircles of thinly sliced bell pepper, red, green, yellow, orange or a comboscallion greens thinly sliced on the biasthin slices of fresh chile peppers, jalapeno (hot), poblano (medium) or shishito (mild)cooked rice (use your leftovers) or small noodlesshredded cooked chicken (rotisserie or roasted)cilantro leavesa handful of baby spinach leaves
Recipe by Doorstep Dishes at https://www.doorstepdishes.com/healing-chicken-soup/