Kick It Immune Boosting Chicken Soup

Ingredients

• 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 potato or 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

Directions

1. 1

   Dice onions, chilli, ginger and sweet potato/parsnip.

2. 2

   Dice or crush garlic.

3. 3

   Slice celery, carrots.

4. 4

   Wash chicken inside and out and place into a large stock pot.

5. 5

   Put all ingredients into the pot and cover with chicken stock.

6. 6

   Bring soup to the boil, then simmer for approx 2 - 2.5 hours or until the chicken falls of the bone.

7. 7

   (I use a pressure cooker to cook mine for approx 1 hr).

8. 8

   Pull chicken out of soup and discard all bones and large clumps of fat.

9. 9

   Return chicken meat to soup.

10. 10

    For a variation, try adding a ham hock to the ingredients as well!

11. 11

    This chicken soup does have a bite, but it it will sweat out all those nasty cold bugs!

12. 12

    Enjoy!