How To Cook Chicken Soup With Parsnip And Orange

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

It is almost fat free, is a great source of protein, exceedingly versatile and is the key ingredient in many weight loss recipes.

For many people, the memorable comfort food is chicken soup. This classic soup is a flexible recipe and is frequently prepared for people who are in poor health, but it is equally valuable for dieters.

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

First, a couple of tips on buying the chicken you will need.

If you can get hold of an organic chicken, do so, as it will be a purer meat, with less chance of it containing added hormones. It's also a sound policy from the animal welfare point of view, as a lot of the mass produced chickens are bred in conditions that are quite disgraceful.

Here is the recipe for you.

The ingredient list is as follows:

2 fresh 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

Description:

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 serves 6 family members as a appetizer, but you might prefer to serve it as a main course with freshly baked bread, in which case it feeds four family members easily.

If you like this recipe, you can find a good selection of chicken recipes by spending a little time reading through any of the collections of free recipes available online.

Cooking at home can really improve your family life. In these hectic times, family meals are usually the only opportunity that we get to enjoy some quiet time with our partners and children. The pressures of modern society means that less folk are making the effort to prepare good home cooked meals, instead choosing to dine out, often, unavoidably, without the rest of the family and this is not the best option for any family.

Mom's home cooking has lots of advantages. It is frequently a great deal more cost effective, often much faster, and, as it involves fewer trips out in the car, is a great deal better for the environment.

By:
Roger Wakefield

Roger Wakefield works as a an author who offers food and diet advice for Recipe Ideas, which has over 60K recipes with specific recipe categories for chicken recipes and soup recipes and many, many more.