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:
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How do you make the chicken or Mutton Soup?
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