This article shares a comforting and flavorful spiced chicken soup recipe. The author recounts how the recipe came about and highlights the importance of spices for both taste and health.
CHICKEN soup, a popular home remedy for the cold and flu, is something most of us turn to when feeling under the weather. Interestingly, while ingredients and spices may vary, there is a chicken soup recipe in just about every country. Warm and comforting, chicken soup, which is often cooked with vegetables, is said to be a complete food for the nutrients it provides to help with the healing process.
While Chinese-style chicken soup is my favourite, creamy chicken soup as well as spice-filled broths are equally appetising and good, whether you are ill or in the pink of health. With the flu bug in the air, chicken broth became a topic of conversation between my colleague Kalai Selvi and I.Kalai, who enjoys making her mum’s chicken soup for some of our colleagues recovering from illness, shared her recipe for me to try.However, the smell of spices such as coriander, fennel, cumin and turmeric lingering in the air is inviting, and a taste later on proved that this recipe is for keeps.In fact, when talking about this spiced soup with another colleague, I learnt that her family has a similar recipe, and at times she also includes cabbage leaves. The taste of the soup deepens after a day. However, I would suggest adding in the cabbage only when it is to be consumed as soggy leaves make the soup appear less appealing.Use two potatoes and cut them into quarters. Cut the carrots into easy-to-eat pieces (2cm rounds).In a bowl, add coriander, cumin, fennel and turmeric with three-quarters of a cup of water to make a slurry.Add cinnamon sticks, star anise, cardamon and cloves until fragrant. Then add the sliced onion and cook until they are translucent and slightly caramelised, followed by the ginger and garlic paste. Let the aromatics mix and mingle.Add one teaspoon of salt. Once the oil rises to the surface, add in the chicken pieces and coat them in the spice mixture.Next add two cups of water and the potatoes. Simmer for five minutes.The carrots go in nex
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