Chicken Soup To Knock Out A Cold Or Flu

Chicken soup made with made with chicken bones and meat has been medically proven in number of studies to knock out a cold or the flu and speed up healing.

Chicken soup contains a number of substances with beneficial medicinal activity including an anti-inflammatory mechanism that could ease the symptoms of upper respiratory tract infections.

Here is my recipe with carefully selected ingredients all of them contributing to making this soup a good remedy for cold and flu.

Ingredients (Serves 4)

• 800gr of chicken (bones and meat)
• 2-3 onions (don’t peel)
• 4 garlic cloves
• 4 carrots
• 3 leeks
• 2 tomatoes
• 1 potato
• 1 sweet potato
• 1 medium parsnip
• 4cm long piece of ginger
• handful of parsley & cilantro (coriander) plus 4 additional garlic cloves
• salt, pepper or cayenne (as much as you can handle)

Obviously to obtain the maximum, you would need to go organic all the way.

Duration

• 2 hours and 15 minutes.

Steps

• Wash veggies (onions, garlic, carrots, leeks, tomatoes, potatoes, parsnip, ginger) and then cut them coarsely into 1-2 cm cubes.
• Put the meat in large pot, and add veggies.
• Add enough pure water to just cover the meat and vegetables.
• Bring to a boil then lower the heat and simmer slowly for 2 hours.
• Strain (optional)
• When the soup has cooled a bit, add finely cut parsley, cilantro and garlic cloves. Remember to activate antiviral allicin in garlic by allowing chopped garlic to sit 15 minutes before adding it to the soup!