Chicken detox soup has everything you may want, a boost of immunity, nutriment hydration when you are feeling down the weather, lowers inflammation and helps shed weight, get your health back, cleanses your body, everything! Eat this detox soup for dinner every night, you’ll feel good, you’ll weigh great!
It’s time to detox! It’s time for soup!
Detox Soup With Chicken
Along with cleansing and detoxing properties the soup is filled with antioxidants that boost immunity and it’s packed full of veggies, spices and herbs. It doesn’t compromise on taste!
Want to loose weight or not, you must include this simple, low in calories, lots of fiber soup. It sure makes you feel great. A bear hug of comfort food. It’s comforting, hearty and nutritious.
Especially when you are feeling down the weather or detoxing after consistent feasting, this soup is appropriate for you. Helps you reboot your system and get back on your eating plan.
If your aim is to shed weight, eat this soup for dinner couple of weeks to see the result. Eating soup for dinner makes sense, as you want to keep the calorie intake as little as possible at the end of the day when you metabolism slows down.
Soups are super food! Especially chicken detox soup. Every ingredients used in the recipe has a one or more purpose, health-wise + taste-wise.
Ginger and garlic enhances the taste of the soup, plus has healing properties which will help you fight illness better.
Turmeric powder helps reduce inflammation.
And for the protein – chicken!
With no addition of cream, milk or any diary product, this light broth based soup is low calorie and fat. A bowl of detox soup can be cozy warm bear hug on cold winter nights. And like most soups, this soup gets better by the day. It’s make-large-pot-of-soup-and-eat-every-night perfect soup!
Always eat soup hot! The temperature of detox soup will slow the pace of eating and you will eat better and in lesser quantity. But since detox soup is so light and low calorie, you don’t have to limit your consumption. You can go for seconds!
Ingredients For Detox Soup With Chicken
Vegetables, spices, and chicken are all you need to make healing detox soup. All natural fresh produces no processed ingredients.
Chicken Broth – To keep it healthy choose low sodium broth. Homemade chicken broths are best option. It’s not difficult to make your own broth, try it.
Chicken – Using boneless chicken in convenient. You can cook and shred chicken without much fuss. Chicken breast or boneless chicken thighs can be used. Note – chicken thighs are slightly higher in calories, consider that if making this soup for weight lose.
Rotisserie chicken can also be used for this soup if you have any left overs. Simply remove the crispy skin and shred the inner juicy meat and use it in the soup.
Vegetables – Carrots, Celery, Broccoli, Frozen Peas – Loads and loads of veggies can be added to this soup recipe. I went with handful measure. You can add as much or as little veggies you want. Feel free to include your favorite vegetables here. Mushrooms, spinach and golden beets can be included.
Ginger and Garlic – Enhances flavors of the soup. Ginger has healing properties that will help your body fight illness better. It’s great for boosting your immunity. Talking about ginger reminds me of the amazing healthy drink that you must drink every morning – lemon ginger tea.
Turmeric Powder – reduced inflammation and helps boost immunity.
Apple Cider Vinegar – we all know that apple cider vinegar has detoxing properties (or atleast I believed so it does). Vinegar adds to the flvor of the soup and a light kick to the soup without being overpowering. Don’t’ fret, you won’t taste the vinegar at all.
Onions – Onions adds to the taste. Yellow onions are best for make clear broth based soup.
Olive Oil – Though you can proceed making chicken detox soup without any oil, I like a touch of olive oil to saute onions, garlic and ginger. Sauteing onions garlic and ginger in oil brings out its flavors.
Spices (Red Chili Flakes & Pepper) – Adding little kick to detox soup makes it taste amazing. Using a touch of red chili flakes and pepper (ground or crushed) helps with the taste. If you can’t handle spice even a bit, you can leave out red chili flakes completely. Add just a touch of pepper to the soup.
Parsley – Loads of it can be added. Adds freshness and makes the soup vibrant.
Salt – Depending on your broth, you may or may not need salt. First taste and then add salt in the end.
How To Make Chicken Detox Soup
- Start off by prepping all the vegetables. You can chop vegetables into chunks or shred it into small pieces.
- Dice onions and celery. Peel carrot skin and chop into small rounds discs. Chop broccoli into medium sized florets. Chop celery into small pieces.
- Mince garlic and ginger.
- Set a large soup pot on medium heat. Add olive oil. Saute onions, celery, minced garlic and ginger in olive oil for 3 to 4 minutes or until onions begins to sweat and turn soft.
- Add raw chicken breasts into the pot along with carrots, apple cider vinegar, salt and pepper, red chili flakes, turmeric and chicken broth.
- Bring to boil. Once it starts boiling, lower the heat, cover the pot with lid and simmer it for 15 to 20 minutes or until chicken breast is cooked through and moist (do not over cook chicken breasts).
- Then remove cooked chicken breasts from the pot using tongs onto wooden chopping board. Add chopped broccoli, frozen peas and fresh parsley into the pot. Let it continue to cook until broccoli is tender.
- NOTE – if you find broth levels reduced below the vegetables pour some more broth. You want to have all vegetables covered and immersed inside the broth.
- Meanwhile shred cooked chicken breasts using two forks.
- Add shredded chicken back into the pot once broccoli is cooked and tender. Stir it and leave for 2 minutes on heat.
- Taste to adjust salt and pepper if needed.
- Pour hot soup into serving bowls and serve immediately.
How To Store Chicken Detox Soup
Recipe works great for make ahead and store. You can make the soup and keep it for the week and eat it. The soup needs to be completely cooled before tossing it into refrigerator. Store soup in containers covered with tight lid and stores it in fridge for about 4-5 days.
If you want to freeze detox soup, divide soup into individual portions and store in air tight lid glass bowls. Can be frozen for about a month.
To heat frozen soup, simple heat in in pot on stove top with little water or stock added to it.
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Chicken Detox Soup
Ingredients
- 2 chicken breasts
- 2 quarts chicken stock low sodium
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 white onion diced
- 2 cups celery chopped
- 4 cloves garlic minced
- 3 tablespoon ginger shred it or mince it
- 3 carrots peeled and sliced into rounds
- 2 ½ cups broccoli chopped
- 1 ½ cups frozen peas
- 1 teaspoon turmeric powder
- 1 teaspoon red chili flakes reduce to ½ teaspoon if needed
- 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
- Salt and pepper crushed, to taste
- ½ cup parsley chopped
Instructions
- Start off by prepping all the vegetables. You can chop vegetables into chunks or shred it into small pieces.
- Dice onions and celery. Peel carrot skin and chop into small rounds discs. Chop broccoli into medium sized florets. Chop celery into small pieces.
- Mince garlic and ginger.
- Set a large soup pot on medium heat. Add olive oil. Saute onions, celery, minced garlic and ginger in olive oil for 3 to 4 minutes or until onions begins to sweat and turn soft.
- Add raw chicken breasts into the pot along with carrots, apple cider vinegar, salt and pepper, red chili flakes, turmeric and chicken broth.
- Bring to boil. Once it starts boiling, lower the heat, cover the pot with lid and simmer it for 15 to 20 minutes or until chicken breast is cooked through and moist (do not over cook chicken breasts).
- Then remove cooked chicken breasts from the pot using tongs onto wooden chopping board. Add chopped broccoli, frozen peas and fresh parsley into the pot. Let it continue to cook until broccoli is tender.NOTE – if you find broth levels reduced below the vegetables pour some more broth. You want to have all vegetables covered and immersed inside the broth.
- Meanwhile shred cooked chicken breasts using two forks.
- Add shredded chicken back into the pot once broccoli is cooked and tender. Stir it and leave for 2 minutes on heat.
- Taste to adjust salt and pepper if needed.
- Pour hot soup into serving bowls and serve immediately.
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Notes
- Add more vegetables along with the what’s mentioned in the recipe. Mushrooms, spinach (to be added in the last after you turn off flame), zucchini can be used.
- Use low sodium chicken broth to make it healthier.
- Do not over cook vegetables and chicken. You want it to be just cooked through.
- If you have any leftover rotisserie chicken, use it for the soup recipe. Remove outer crispy skin and shred chicken and add it to the soup.
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