Chicken Spinach Soup

"This is a nourishing soup recipe from 'Young Times' from the column- Eating right with Sanjeev Kapoor. This soup will put the glow back in your cheeks!"
 
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Ready In:
1hr 10mins
Ingredients:
15
Serves:
2
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ingredients

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directions

  • Wash and shred the spinach.
  • Next, wash and cut the chicken into small dices.
  • Peel and finely chop the onion.
  • Likewise, do the same for garlic.
  • Put the potatoes in boiling water, allow to become tender, then, peel and mash them.
  • Heat oil and butter combo in a soup pot.
  • Add bay leaf.
  • Add garlic and onion and saute.
  • Add spinach.
  • Discard the bay leaf.
  • Add salt, crushed peppercorns and some water.
  • Allow to cook for a while (about 10 minutes) on medium flame.
  • Add potatoes.
  • Cook for 3 minutes.
  • Remove from flame.
  • Add milk.
  • Blend the above prepared mixture well in a blender to obtain spinach puree.
  • Remove the crusts from the bread slices.
  • Cut them into croutons.
  • Dilute the spinach puree with milk or water.
  • Heat the spinach puree (soup) in a pan.
  • In another pan, cook the croutons until they begin to change colour.
  • Add a little oil to the croutons and cook till they are crisp.
  • Drain on absorbent paper towels and keep aside.
  • Heat oil in another pan.
  • Add boneless chicken pieces.
  • Saute till cooked.
  • Sprinkle salt and pepper powder over the cooked chicken pieces.
  • Add salt to taste.
  • Flavour the croutons with oregano and red chilli flakes.
  • To serve, firstly, put the chicken pieces in a soup bowl.
  • Pour the soup over them.
  • Garnish with bread croutons.
  • Serve hot.

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  1. I had a hard time with this. It came out very thick for a soup, and I ended up adding more water/milk to get it to a soup consistency, I was looking for. The red pepper added a bit of bang, but over all I found it bland.
     
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