The Best Ever Healing Chicken Soup
This is the Best Ever Healing Chicken Soup, packed with healthy ingredients and so much flavour. You’ll feel better in no time!
Ingredients
- 2 tbspolive oil
- 1 lbboneless skinless chicken breasts
- 3celery stalks, chopped
- 2carrots, chopped
- 1yellow onion, diced
- 2 sprigsfresh rosemary, finely chopped (or 1 tsp dried)
- 3 sprigsfresh thyme, finely chopped (or 1 tsp dried)
- 4 clovesgarlic, minced
- 1 tbsplemon juice
- 1 tbspfreshly grated ginger (or 1/2 tsp dried powdered ginger)
- 1 tsplemon zest
- 1 tspturmeric
- ½ tspsalt
- ¼ tsppepper
- 6 cupschicken broth
- ½ cupdry mini pasta shells (or another small pasta shape such as macaroni)
- ¼ cupfresh chopped parsley (or 2 tsp dried)
Directions
- 1
Heat olive oil in a large Dutch oven or pot on the stove. Add chicken breasts, seasoning with salt & pepper and searing for 2-3 minutes each side until lightly browned, then remove from heat. Without wiping pot clean, add celery, carrots, onions, sauteeing for 3-4 minutes until fragrant and scraping up any chicken bits from the bottom of the pot as you go.
- 2
Add chicken back to pot, along with rosemary, thyme, garlic, ginger, lemon juice, lemon zest, turmeric and salt & pepper, cooking another minute until fragrant.
- 3
Pour in chicken broth, bringing to a boil and simmering for 20 minutes. Add pasta in the last 10 minutes of cooking time, stirring occasionally until pasta is cooked through.
- 4
Remove chicken from broth and shred with two forks, then add back to pot. Stir in fresh parsley, then serve and enjoy!