Cold Relief Clear Chicken Soup

Monsoon season is on and everyone is attacked by cough, cold and sometimes it is flue too.  I consider this monsoon and winter season as a cough-cold season because almost every child and adult also get infected due to various bacteria.

Clear Chicken Soup: PS : Pixel

We are more indulging soup in this season. It gives a soothing effect to our throat and clears the conjunction in the nose and throat. A hot and savory soup is the ultimate remedy to your throat. Nowadays you can get readymade soup packets in the market but nothing bit to the homemade food. The rainy season welcomes more germs so try to avoid it any packaged food.

What is Chicken Soup?

Chicken is cooked with spices, vegetables with lots of water. You can drink it as much as you want.

Today I am sharing a simple clear chicken soup recipe that is generally prepared by every Maharashtrian house. I still remember when I was a child my mother used to make this soup on every Sunday. All Maharashtrian could be related to this because we have a Sunday ritual to have chicken or mutton for a lunch. It is followed by the soup prepared specially for small children but adults also love to have it.

                                                                                                                              

I believe soup is like a soothing food to your digestion system and hence I am trying to avoid spices in my soup. People generally making soup using spices from the masala box but I prefer to have it as simple as much. Chicken or mutton has its own flavor and we should not add that many spices which reduce the chicken or mutton flavor.

This is my version of chicken soup as I like to keep it non-spicy and at the same time have some germ-boosting properties too. I use minimum ingredients in the soup and let me share a little bit about it.

Some of the benefits of chicken soup:

Cloves: High in antioxidants. Help in killing bacteria and improve digestion.

Turmeric: Especially most important compound curcumin is a natural anti-inflammatory compound. Turmeric can increase the antioxidant capacity of the body.

Garlic: Garlic can combat sickness including the common cold. The active compound in garlic can reduce blood pressure.

Tejpatta: In English, it is called Bay Leaf. It helps to manage high cholesterol. I have antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. 

Ginger: It reduces hypertension. It reduces nausea from morning sickness and improves heart health.

I hope you enjoy the soup, especially in this rainy season.

 

Cold Relief Clear Chicken Soup

Author : Neeta Kadam                              Prep Time : 15 min

Cook Time : 25 min                                    Total Time : 40 min

Yield : 4 Serving                                          Category : Indian Soup

Ingredient:

2 Tablespoon Oil

2 small Onions chopped

7to 8 garlic pods

1/2 inch Ginger chopped

3 to 4 green chilies - as per your taste

Coriander handful.

Salt.

Cloves - 2,3

Turmeric : 1 tsp.

Chicken: 275 gm

Tej Patta : 2 nos.

Jeera : 1 tsp

Water 2 glass

Instruction

Wash and clean the chicken thoroughly under cold water at least 3 to 4 times.

Heat 2 tablespoon oil in the pan and let it be hot enough to add cumin and let it crackle.

Then add tej-paata, cloves and fry them for a while.

Add finely chopped garlic and ginger. You have to chop it and do not use paste.

Let them fry until the raw smell goes.

Add finely chopped onions fry till it becomes pink and not golden.

Add chopped green chilies, turmeric, and chicken pieces.

Fry everything until the chicken piece colour change

Add water 1 and a half glass or you can add up as per your consistency.

Add salt as per the taste and let it simmer on a medium flame for up to 20 to 25 minutes until chicken gets cooked.  Garnish it with coriander.

Notes:

Take chicken thigh pieces with bones that are tender and taste delicious.

Add some carrot sticks as it is a great source of vitamin C and K.

 

Cold Relief- Clear chicken soup

Sources :

Health-related information from the following source:

www.healthline.com

www.1mg.com

www.medicalnewstoday.com

Picture Source: Pixel.com

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Book Review : A to Z common disease and Homeopathic Treatment - book by Dr. Surbhi Prapanna

We have fiction, nonfiction books, cookbooks, interior books at our home library. Do we have any medicinal books? I guess apart from the medical people, we do not have a habit to read such kinds of medical books because of the hard language. But this ‘A to Z of common disease and Their Homeopathic treatment’ book is exceptional of such things.

Cover of the book

The book cover has three pictures of common diseases and below are the medicine images. The book cover depicts the content of the book very well.

About the book

This is a complete handy guide of common disease and homeopathic treatment. The author has covered common and uncommon diseases with a brief explanation like causes, symptoms, and cure. It has a total of 26 chapters comprise of 26 types of disease. Each chapter has a detailed explanation that can be read by anyone. The book explains Dr. Surbhi's extensive search and hard work. She has covered a tiny part of each disease. If you are looking for any kind of symptoms of any disease you will get appropriate information in this book.

My take on this book:

a.    We have a tendency to search for each tiny thing on Google. Though we are taking any kind of treatment with the doctor we used to search tablets, symptoms, and cures on Google. If you have this book in your library you will stop using Google. Dr. Surbhi has covered the information which we always looking for. (Homeopathic only).

 

b.    Author has explained each disease and its symptoms in detail with appropriate images.

 

c. The language is used in this book is simple. The medical terms are used wherever required and can be understood.

 

d.      The A to Z common disease books covered every human being from baby to old age people. It has all common diseases like baby colic, hair fall, acidity, stomach ache and many more.

 

e.      This is a quite informative book where you can have medical information. After reading this book you will realize what steps we should take, which things we should avoid, and useful cure treatment.

 

f.        I will recommend every household should have this health-related book which is a handy medical guide.

 

About the Author:

Dr. Surbhi is a homeopathic therapist by profession, writer, blogger, mom of two adorable daughters, creative photographer, and nature lover. She wrote about parenting, health, DIY, cooking with kids, creative activities with kids, education, and many more on her blog. She won many awards for her writing. Her work had been published on various prestigious online platforms.

Her blog: surbhiprapanna.com

Details of the book :

Rating: 5/5

Book Name: A to Z Common Disease and Their Homeopathic Treatment.

Author: Dr. Surbhi Prappana

Genre: Health

Format: E-book

Pages: 141

Available: Free download

Link: AtoZof Common Diseases and their homeopathic treatment

I love this medical encyclopedia, especially of Homeopathy. I am not a big fan of Homeopathy but my knowledge regarding homeopathy is expanded after reading this book. I used to believe homeopathy treatment is a slow process and have a tiny pearl-like medicine. I am glad to know the information of new and the existing health problems like nosebleed, earache, etc and the treatment.  Download it as fast as possible.

There are many interesting free E-books on the blogger chatter Ebook Library. You can download it in PDF and read it. It is a treasure box for a book nerd.