How To Cook Chicken Soup With Parsnip And Orange

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

It is almost fat free, high in protein, super versatile and plays a starring role in a lot of diet recipes.

For many people, the archetypal childhood memory food is chicken soup. Chicken soup is a versatile dish and is often served to people who are poorly, but it is equally beneficial for dieters.

Here is a specially scrumptious recipe for chicken soup with a twist for you to make in your own kitchen.

Before we start cooking, a couple of comments on purchasing your chicken.

If you are able to buy an free range chicken, even better, as it will be less likely to be contaminated with additives and hormones. It Is also a good policy from an humanitarian point of view, as most of the supermarket chickens are forced to live in conditions that are quite shocking.

On to the recipe.

The recipe needs:

2 fresh oranges (juice only)
1 black pepper (freshly ground)
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 dish serves 6 family members as a first course, but you might prefer to serve it as a main course with wholemeal bread, in which case it serves four family members easily.

If you enjoy this dish, you can easily discover a good selection of chicken recipes by taking a look at one of the recipe collections on the World Wide Web.

Preparing meals at home can really improve your family life. In these hectic times, family meals are usually the only occasion that we get to enjoy some quiet time with our partners and children. The problems of modern society means that fewer people are prepared to use up their free time to get into the kitchen and start cooking, preferring to eat out, often, for unavoidable reasons, without the rest of the family and this is not desirable for any family.

Oddly, if anyone stopped and looked at the situation, they would soon discover that home cooking is definitely the better option. It is often far cheaper, usually much faster, and, as it needs less car journeys, is much more eco-friendly.

Source: articlesnatch

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