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chicken soup

Chicken Soup

5 from 1 vote
Chicken Soup is very quick, super easy to make, and tastes so incredible. It’s a great dinner idea as it is packed with veggies and protein that fills it out and makes it a complete meal. It’s full of Asian flavors and a nice remedy for flu and cold.
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 35 minutes
Total Time 45 minutes
Servings: 6
Course: Dinner, Main Course, Soup
Cuisine: Asian, Chinese, Pakistani
Ingredients Method Video

Ingredients
  

  • ½ kg Chicken (bone-in)
  • 1 cup Cooking Oil (for frying)
  • 8-10 Garlic cloves (small size)
  • 6 tbsp Carrots (small-diced cuts)
  • 4 tbsp Capsicum (small-diced cuts)
  • ½ Onion (small size)
  • 1 Inch Ginger (piece)
  • 1 Green chilli
  • 6 tbsp Corn flour (or as required)
  • 1.5 - 2 ltr Water (simple)
  • 2 Eggs
  • ½ tsp Black pepper powder
  • 2 tsp Salt (or to taste)

Method
 

Frying the chicken and the vegetables
  1. Pour one cup of oil into the pot or dutch oven and heat it. Add in 6 tbsp diced carrot and 8-10 cloves of small-sized garlic or garlic paste instead. Fry them lightly.
    add in the oil diced carrot and garlic cloves
  2. Add ½ kg chicken to it. Fry all the things on a medium flame for 10 to 12 minutes.
    frying the chicken carrot and garlic
  3. Now include 4 tbsp diced capsicum in it and fry it too, slightly.
    add diced capsicum
  4. Keep frying the meat on a medium flame till it changes color, then strain the oil from it.
    fry till the color of meat changes
Preparing the Chicken and Vegetable Broth
  1. To prepare the broth, add one and a half liter to 2 liter water in the pot.
  2. Put half of the onion, a one-inch piece of ginger, and one green chili (sliced into 3 to 4 pieces) into the pot.
    add garlic green chili and onion
  3. Cover the pot and bring the broth to a boil on high flame for 15 minutes.
    boil the stock on high flame
  4. Strain the broth with the help of a strainer in a separate pan.
  5. Set apart the onion, ginger, green chilli and garlic and set aside the chicken, carrot, and capsicum.
    set aside onion green chili ginger and garlic
How to Make the Chicken Soup
  1. Place the pot on the flame and pour the broth into it. Include carrot and capsicum again in it. Bring it to a boil on a medium-high flame.
  2. Now we'll add cornflour to it. Take cornflour 6 tbsp and dissolve it in water (of room temp) before adding it to the soup.
  3. When the soup starts boiling, reduce the heat to simmer. Then start adding cornflour (mixed in water) gradually. Cover the pot and cook it for 2 to 3 minutes.
  4. Add whites of eggs gradually while stirring the soup constantly. Now add the shredded chicken to it and stir in.
    add in egg whites and shredded chicken
  5. Season the soup with black pepper powder and salt and cover the pot. Simmer the soup for less than 2 minutes and turn off the flame.
    season the soup with black pepper powder and salt
  6. Delicious chicken soup is ready now. Serve it hot with soy sauce, red chili sauce, green chili slices added to vinegar, or serve it with boiled eggs.

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