Chicken Soup

Chicken soup is the perfect dish to nourish blood. Use fresh seasonal vegetables if you can.

Ingredients

1 organic chicken – remove skin

3 sticks of celery

1 BIG bunch of greens (coriander/parsley/spinach)

2 carrots

1 half of squash

1 sweet potato

1 onion halved

2 bay leaves

5 dates

6 cloves of garlic – or less if you prefer!

Seasoning of sea salt and freshly ground black pepper

1 tablespoon of goji berries – added 15 minutes before the end of cooking

Juice of 1 lemon (to be added according to your taste at the end of cooking)

Preparation

· In a large pan, cover the chicken with water

· Add all the above ingredients except for the goji berries and lemon juice

· Bring the pan to the boil

· Simmer with a lid on for 3 hours

· Add goji berries and simmer for 15 mins

· add lemon juice to taste

Tips

The medicinal part of the soup is the broth. Therefore, if I have asked you to have the broth as a daily tonic, please reduce the broth by half (to the amount that would fill a x12 muffin tray). The more concentrated it is the more delicious and nutritious it is. The broth should turn into jelly when cold.

Freeze the broth in a muffin tin, then defrost and reheat one cube per day as a tonic (please boil this properly as I don’t want you to have food poisoning!).

Equally, if you want to eat the soup as a meal, take the meat off the chicken add it back into the soup with a fresh batch of vegetables (the vegetable used to make the soup are best discarded).

Enjoy!