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HEALTHY DINNER FOR WEEK : MARCH 2024

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How are you ? April is started already and how life is going? Steady or with full speed? Mine is going with full speed. Mini vacation are over and school has started. Again we are busy with school, study little bit and toddlers play time. Healthy dinners are the most important part of our Indian houses. We Indian families have everyday dinner together because it is the time where we meet each other and we talk with each other.  This was the scene of our childhood lives. Many of you agreed with it.  But,  In my house dinner time is where we strictly off the screens whether it is big or small screens and talk over the meal.  Dinner is the special time where we all have meals with discussion and laughter so we did it mindfully.  A healthy dinner has always been my goal. Earlier there was a house help when my baby was small but now we don't have any help. So the goal is to cook food at home and have a meal with the family, which is sometimes very difficult. But with meal planning I ma
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Cold Relief Clear Chicken Soup

By Neeta

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


Check out my sandwich recipes especially for kids in the recipe section.

How do you make the chicken or Mutton Soup? 


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