Recipe for Chicken Soup with Parsnip and Orange

Chicken is quite rightly one of the best loved meats thoughout the whole world.

It is low in fat, is a great source of protein, extremely versatile and is the key ingredient in many diet recipes.

For most families, the archetypal nostalgia food is chicken soup. This soup is a flexible meal and is often prepared for relatives who are in poor health, but it is equally effective for those trying to lose weight.

Here is a specially scrumptious chicken soup recipe with a surprise ingredient for you to prepare at home.

Before we start cooking, a couple of tips on purchasing the chicken you will need.

If you can buy an free range chicken, even better, as it will be a purer meat, with less chance of it containing added hormones. It’s also a sound idea from an humanitarian point of view, as a lot of the chickens sold in supermarkets are housed in conditions that are quite shocking.

On to the recipe.

It requires:

2 fresh oranges (juice only)
1 finely ground pepper (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

Method:

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 dish feeds 6 people as a first course, but you may choose to serve it as a meal in itself with home made bread, in which case it serves four people easily.

If this recipe meets with your approval, you can easily discover a wide variety of for Chicken Recipes and soup recipes by visiting any of the free recipes sites available online.

Eating together can help you family in so many ways. In these hectic days, dining together is often the only chance that we get to enjoy some quiet time with our partners and children Home cooking has lots of advantages. It is usually a lot more cost effective, often significantly faster, and, as it involves fewer driving miles, is a lot more eco-friendly.