Feel better chicken soup

I'm not going to claim this will cure you but I will say that when I am sick it has helped me feel better and it seems to do the same for other people. And is a fairly simple dish to make. A good basic with many variations and of course easy to adjust once you have the basic soup down. Though I will say it turns out to be more like a stew. It also makes a ton so you should have it for a week or so depending on how many people eat it.

Take a whole chicken that has been cut into pieces and put it in a stock pot. Cover it with water and simmer until the meat falls off the bone. This can be an hour or two. Take chicken out of water and remove meat from bones. Chop or shred the larger pieces in the more bite size. Put meat aside for a moment. Let the broth continue to simmer.

While the chicken was simmering in a pan on the stove sauté one white onion that has been chopped into smallish pieces ( you can use yellow but I always cook with white. It is a Mexican thing) and several cloves of garlic or a tablespoon from the jar of chopped garlic, which is what I do. Once they start to get soft add some salt and pepper, dried red chili flakes, dried thyme, dried oregano, and some meat or poultry marinade. I use Phipps Country Meat Marinade and it has: Lemon pepper, salt, Garlic, paprika, onion, pepper, oregano, thyme, rosemary and baby leaf. Stir in. then add Chopped carrot and celery. Sauté until the herbs are well mixed in then add mixture to your chicken broth. Add Chicken back in too. Add noodles. When noodles are cooked soup is done.

Some variations to get you started:

If you have an upset tuummy omit the noodles and serve over short grian rice.

Add Green cabbage or other hard vegies with the carrots and celery.

For a more Asian style add 5 spice powder and shitake mushrooms and chow main or undo noodles and add chopped fresh ginger when sautéing the onions and garlic.

Add green beans just at the end

Add lemon zest right at the end. Or on top of the bowl you are serving.