chicken soup

 

so - my house has just been thrashed by the flu.

bad.

i was so sick that i had no voice for nearly the entire week and work was just a disaster because i am meant to be on the phone all freaking day. doug has been barking away with a terrible cough, and even poor maddie has had a runny nose and a little cough. ugh. disease has taken over at the kendalls. i have always heard that chicken soup is meant to help when you're sick so i thought i would give it a whack. i found this recipe on pinterest: http://www.thefitcook.net/1/post/2011/04/chicken-soup-for-the-sick-soul.html and got it brewing, just changing a few little things, basically due to lack of the correct ingredients in my kitchen...

 

recipe said/ i did

1 boneless, skinless chicken breast/ 2 chicken breasts

1/2 cup matchstick carrots/ 1 & 1/2 carrots
1 small yellow onion, sliced/ 1 small brown onion
1/2 cup frozen corn kernels/ 1 can corn kernels
2 garlic cloves, crushed/ 2 teaspoons crushed garlic
2 oz whole wheat pasta/ 1 pkt mi goreng noodles haha!
1 tbsp olive oil/ dash olive oil
salt + pepper/ teaspoon chicken salt + cracked pepper
1 tsp garlic powder/ 1 tsp onion powder
the juice of 1 lime/ all the mi goreng sachets except the soy sauce
4 cups water/ 8 cups water

 

whack everything in the pot, and allow to simmer away for 30-40 mins, to ensure that cut up chicken is cooked through... easy as!

 

it was very good, and hopefully helped, but i must admit that i added a lot more water and some chicken stock to make it go further! give it a go, i am honestly convinced that there's not a great of deal of talent involved in making soup, as long as there's water and ingredients, you can't really go wrong!