Home-made chicken soup with ginger

Name: Home-made chicken soup with ginger
Cook time: 2 h 30 min
Total time: 2 h 30 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 1 ready-to-cook chicken (approx. 1.25 kg); 2 Onions; 3 Carrots; 2 red chillies; 7-10 Tbsp Salt; 7-10 Tbsp Pepper; 3 Peppers (e.g. green, yellow and red); 500 g Broccoli; 1 piece(s) (à ca. 8 cm) Ginger

AUTHOR
Cassandra Brock

DIFFICULTY
very easy

RATING

Grandma already knew how well hot chicken broth helps with colds. With hot spices and fresh vegetables the soup gets extra power

COOK TIME
150 mins

TOTAL TIME
150 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 4

1 ready-to-cook chicken (approx. 1.25 kg)
2 Onions
3 Carrots
2 red chillies
7-10 Tbsp Salt
7-10 Tbsp Pepper
3 Peppers (e.g. green, yellow and red)
500 g Broccoli
1 piece(s) (à ca. 8 cm) Ginger

Directions

1
Chicken wash. Wash and halve unpeeled onions. Wash 1 carrot and cut into large pieces. Clean and wash 1 chili pepper. Put prepared ingredients with 1 teaspoon salt in a large pot. Add approx. 2 l water, so that the chicken is completely covered. Bring to the boil, cover and simmer for about 1 1⁄2 hours. Skim off any foam with a skimmer.
2
Lift the chicken out of the broth and let it cool down a little. Pour broth through a fine sieve and collect.
3
Clean and wash the peppers and broccoli. Cut paprika into strips, broccoli into small florets. Peel and wash 2 carrots and cut them into sticks. Clean 1 chilli pepper, carve lengthwise, remove seeds, wash and chop finely. Peel ginger and dice very finely. Remove the poultry meat from skin and bones, pluck or cut into bite-sized pieces.
4
Add vegetables, chilli and ginger to the chicken stock. Bring to the boil and simmer covered for about 10 minutes. Heat the meat in it. Season to taste again and serve.
5
Essential oils and pungent substances from ginger fire the defence. The spice has an antibacterial, analgesic and anti-inflammatory effect. The pungent root can also relieve cough irritation.
6
Chicken soup not only helps to replenish urgently needed liquids during a cold. It also contains the protein cysteine, which strengthens the immune system and inhibits inflammation and viruses. Zinc also fights infections.