The Most Delicious Chicken Soup

Chicken Soup in a large white pot with two lemon slices placed on top.

A quintessential comfort food, super easy, nutritious and delicious. This Chicken Soup gives you kisses from the inside of your belly!

Course Main Course, Soup

Cuisine International

Keyword chicken soup

Prep Time 15

Cook Time 30

Total Time 40

Servings people

Calories 397kcal

Ingredients

1 onion
2-3 cloves garlic
1 inch fresh ginger
1 Tbsp chili paste ají amarillo is my favorite
3-4 stalks celery
2 carrots
2-3 sprigs thyme
6 cups chicken broth
1 lbs chicken breast
1 cup quinoa
1/2 cup frozen peas
1 lemon
sea salt
pepper

Instructions

Peel onion, garlic, and ginger. Chop onion and garlic, and grate ginger.
Peel carrots and thinly slice. Cut celery into small pieces.
Preheat a large pot over medium-low heat and once hot, add a drizzle of olive oil and fry onions, garlic, and ginger in it until the onion is translucent. Then add chili paste and stir-fry for a few more seconds.
Add carrots and celery, thyme, and chicken broth, as well as sea salt and pepper is needed, and bring to a boil. Once boiling, add chicken breasts, reduce heat to low, cover and simmer for 15 mintues.
Remove the chicken and place on a cutting board, add quinoa to the pot and cover again and set a timer for 15 minutes.
In the meantime, use two forks to shred the chicken.
When there are 5 minutes left on the timer, add the shredded chicken back into the pot and also frozen peas. Stir often.
Turn off heat and drizzle juice of one lemon into the pot, give one last stir and serve immediately.

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