Chicken Soup recipe for the Flu !!! Help !

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Hi Friends !

My Mrs. has come down with the flu ... poor girl is suffering at work.

I wanted to warm her soul this evening with a nice hot delicious bowl of Chicken Soup.

I would really appreciate if you could help me out with a tried and tested family recipe. Sure I can search on the net, but I prefer a family recipe.

I am good at Chicken Stew, but not so good at the soup.

Thanks in advance!

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I usually just through in some chicken pieces with bone and no skin (important) together with chopped carrots, onion, tiny bit of garlic, salt and a bayleaf. And water of course. Can't really go wrong with that.

If you have time, let it cool off and set so that you can take away the fat on top with a spoon.

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Thanks Tilia.

I think my wife would love that. Nice and simple, just what she prefers. Perhaps for the flu, a bit of fresh ginger thrown in might be good?

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Official recipe:

Chicken thighs

Shi Take mushrooms

fresh grated ginger

3 fresh chili peppers

few large cloves garlic

Dried Gogi berries if you have them

Let everything boil for 1-2 hours, remove the chicken skin and bone, add the garlic just before the end.

The ginger will help lower fever, because it induces sweating, the chicken will thin mucus, the shi take mushrooms enhance the immune system (and so will the Gogi berries), the chili helps to sweat, and the garlic kills both bacteria and viruses.

Source: BBC

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Chiken soup is great for flu as well! Sometimes I make it from Knorr boulion blocks, throw there in an entire chiken and boil it for minutes until it is all well stewed and tender.

Another recipe that helps are slices of lemon with honey and hot tea. Try it. The best is inhalation 3-5 times a day to get rid of the mucus

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Muze7, what a great recipe!. Thank you very much for the detailed medical benefits !

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mans chicken noodle soup (hong kong style):

half a chicken chopped into 7 or 8 bits (skin, bones everything).

an onion chooped.

dozen cloves of garlic

boil in a pan for an hour.

then chuck in a packet of instant noodles for the last 3 minutes.

consume, have some beers & do the same the next day with the other half of the chicken

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Thanks for the recipe NigerianBusinessman. Sounds great!

I managed to make an excellent soup last night.

I basically combined the recipe ideas yol gave me here.

I simmered chicken joints in water with a white onion, bay leaf, carrots , and green part of leeks for 2 - 2 1/2 hours.

Then I removed the chicken, separated it from the bone and cut into bite size pieces. I discarded the vegetables as their goodness was now in the stock.

I then added to the remaining stock: the chicken, fresh ginger, fresh garlic, scallions / spring onions, hot red chillies, coriander roots or stems and salt and pepper to taste . I simmered this for half an hour until the flavours came together perfectly.

In the last 5 minutes, I threw in some Noodles .

I served the soup topped with lots of fresh chopped coriander leaves, mint leaves, scallions and a squeeze of fresh lime .

If I may say so, it was absolutely delicious. Please give it a go.

It might sound like too much work, but it's quite the opposite. Turn on the heat and let the chicken & water do their job!

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