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

It is almost fat free, is an excellent source of protein, exceedingly versatile and is the key ingredient in a lot of diet recipes.

For the majority of people, the archetypal nostalgia food is chicken soup. This soup is a useful recipe and is frequently served to family members who are unwell, but it is just as useful for weight watchers.

Here is a truly scrumptious chicken soup recipe with a surprise ingredient for you to make in your own kitchen.

Before we commence, a few words on buying your chicken.

If you are able to buy 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 most of the grocery store chickens are forced to live in conditions that are pretty awful.

On to the recipe.

It requires:

2 oranges (juice only)
1 Ground Black Peppercorns
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

Preparation:

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 recipe serves 6 family members as a starter, but you may choose to serve it as a main course with wholemeal bread, in which case it serves four family members 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.

having a meal together~Eating meals at the family table} can help you family in so many ways. In these hectic times, eating together is usually the only chance that we get to talk to our loved ones Cooking at home has lots of advantages. It is usually far more cost effective, usually significantly faster, and, as it requires less road trips, is far more environmentally friendly.