Chicken is quite rightly one of the most popular meats throughout the whole world.

It is almost fat free, is an excellent source of protein, exceedingly versatile and plays a starring role in many diet recipes.

For most families, the classic childhood memory food is chicken soup. This soup is a adaptable meal and is often served to relatives who are under the weather, but it is just as helpful for those trying to lose weight.

Here is a especially scrumptious chicken soup recipe with a twist for you to prepare at home.

Before we start, a couple of tips on purchasing the chicken you will need.

If you can get hold of an free range chicken, do so, as it will be a purer meat, with less chance of it containing added hormones. It Is also a sound policy from an humanitarian point of view, as many of the chickens sold in supermarkets are forced to live in conditions that are pretty shocking.

On to the recipe.

The recipe needs:

2 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

Technique:

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 feeds 6 family members as a first course, but you may choose to serve it as a meal in itself with freshly baked bread, in which case it serves four family members comfortably.

If you like this recipe, you can easily discover a wide variety of for Chicken Recipes and soup recipes by spending a little time reading through any of the free recipes sites on the World Wide Web.

Preparing meals at home can be a huge boost to family morale. In these demanding days, eating together is usually the only occasion that we get to talk to our close family Mom’s home cooking has lots of benefits. It is usually a great deal cheaper, usually significantly faster, and, as it requires fewer road trips, is much kinder to the planet.

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