Chicken is quite rightly one of the best loved meats in the world.
It is almost fat free, high in protein, highly versatile and plays a major part in a lot of diet recipes.
For most families, the traditional nostalgia food is chicken soup. Chicken soup is a useful dish and is frequently cooked for relatives who are under the weather, but it is just as useful for weight watchers.
Here is a really appetizing recipe for chicken soup with a twist for you to cook at home.
Before we commence, a few words on purchasing the chicken you will need.
If you are able to get hold of an organic chicken, even better, as it will be a purer meat, with less chance of it containing added hormones. It’s also a good idea from an humanitarian point of view, as most of the grocery store chickens are kept in conditions that are absolutely awful.
Here is the recipe for you.
The recipe needs:
2 oranges (juice only)
1 Ground Peppercorns (black)
2 onions (chopped and peeled)
3 tablespoons of olive oil
750 ml of chicken stock
10 cloves of garlic (halved)
8 parsnips (either fresh or pre-roasted)
1 teaspoon of salt
Preparation:
Heat oil in a pan. Place onions and cook until soft. Let 10 minutes pass and then place garlic cloves and the roasted parsnips. Leave some of the parsnips to be added later.
Fry vegetables until they are soft for 10 to 15 minutes. Stir occasionally while adding the parsnips (should be pre-roasted).
Pour the chicken stock into the vegetable mix. Put in some black pepper and salt. Allow to simmer up to 20 minutes. Liquidize this after.
To enhance taste, add seasoning and orange juice.
This recipe serves 6 family members as a appetizer, but you may well choose to serve it as a main course with freshly baked bread, in which case it serves four family members comfortably.
If you like this recipe, you can find a good selection of for chicken recipes and soup recipes by spending a little time reading through any of the free recipes sites on the internet.
dining together~Eating meals at the family table} can be a huge boost to family morale. In these hectic times, eating together is often the only occasion that we get to have a chat with our partners and children Home cooking has several benefits. It is often a lot more cost effective, often a good deal quicker, and, as it results in less car journeys, is a good deal kinder to the planet.
