Chloe's Virus-Killing Soup
from Chloe o' the Mountain
*Step 1 ingredients:
One chicken
Appx 15-30 cloves garlic, peeled and crushed
1 Tbs salt
3-4 Thyme sprigs
Cayenne pepper (to taste. I use about a tsp)
Fresh Rosemary sprigs
Fresh ground pepper
*Step 2 ingredients:
1 large onion (coarsely chopped or sliced)
1 fennel bulb (sliced thin)
1 leek (sliced thin)
4-6 stalks of celery (coarse chopped)
large red pepper (coarse chopped
1/2 lb. carrots (coarse chopped)
2 tbs olive oil
1/2 C good White Wine
salt and pepper
*Step 3 ingredients:
Frozen green beans
Frozen peas
zucchini
flat leaf parsley (chopped)
1-2 cans chopped tomatoes with juice
salt and pepper to taste
Place chicken and other Step 1 ingredients in a soup pot (you can use a pressure cooker) and cover with water or chicken broth (I really like Maggi chicken broth powder). Cook on stove top until chicken starts to fall apart. Remove from heat. Strain out chicken and stuff and set aside until cool enough to chop. Reserve broth for next step.
Place oil in bottom of large pot and heat. Add Step 2 veggies and sauté until onion just transparent. Add wine and simmer for 3-4 minutes. Cover the vegetables with chicken broth from chicken--add more broth from can or box if you don't have enough broth from chicken and simmer veggies until just tender.
Add the Step 3 ingredients and simmer until everything is tender. Add chopped chicken, salt and pepper to taste. You can also add cabbage with the end ingredients if you like, or any other veggies your family likes.
No virus can withstand this soup.
The next day add egg noodles and turn it into chicken noodle soup.
