Kick It Immune Boosting Chicken Soup

Total Time: 2 hrs 20 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 2 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 1 roasting chicken, skin, bones, the whole deal
• 2 large onions
• 10 garlic cloves
• 10 g fresh gingerroot (use to taste)
• 2 chilies (discard seeds for less heat)
• 2 stalks celery
• 2 carrots
• 1 cup diced sweet potatoes (or both) or 1 cup parsnip (or both)
• 1 cup shiitake mushroom
• 1 cup soup mix
• pearl barley
• red kidney beans
• split peas
• black-eyed peas
• green lentil
• 1 1/2-2 liters chicken stock

Recipe

• 1 dice onions, chilli, ginger and sweet potato/parsnip.
• 2 dice or crush garlic.
• 3 slice celery, carrots.
• 4 wash chicken inside and out and place into a large stock pot.
• 5 put all ingredients into the pot and cover with chicken stock.
• 6 bring soup to the boil, then simmer for approx 2 - 2.5 hours or until the chicken falls of the bone.
• 7 (i use a pressure cooker to cook mine for approx 1 hr).
• 8 pull chicken out of soup and discard all bones and large clumps of fat.
• 9 return chicken meat to soup.
• 10 for a variation, try adding a ham hock to the ingredients as well!
• 11 this chicken soup does have a bite, but it it will sweat out all those nasty cold bugs!
• 12 enjoy!