Healing Chicken Soup

This Chicken soup recipe is not only delicious but also very therapeutic as it contains all the beneficial ingredients in helping the healing process especially during cough and cold. It's one of my family's favorite dish that can be taken with rice or baguette. Hope you'll enjoy it.

Ingredients

1 whole chicken - cut into 12 parts, skin removed

4 large red onions

2 green chillies

6 cloves of garlic

1 1/2 inch ginger

2 tbspn black peppercorns

2 tbspn cumin powder

1 tspn tumeric powder

2 tbspn soup powder

2 litres of water

3 potatoes- skin peeled and cut into quarters

2 carrots- cut into cube

some sea salt to taste

2 of each; cardamon spice, cloves and star anise

some olive oil for frying

Garnish:

a handful of chopped Chinese parsley and spring onions 

some fried red onions (optional)

Methods;

1) Blend 3 large onions, green chillies, ginger, black peppercorns, the cumin powder and tumeric powder into a thick paste.

2) Slice the remaining onion and set aside. Heat some olive oil into a cooking pot and add the sliced onion and the spices and fry till fragrant. Then add the soup paste and fry further for about 3-4 minutes.

3) Add in the water and leave to boil. Once the water is boiling, add the chicken parts into the soup and the sea salt. Add in the potatoes and carrots 3-4 minutes later and cook till the meat is tender and the potatoes and carrots are done. Turn off the heat and garnish with the chopped parsley and spring onions when serve.