Chicken Clear Soup

Chicken clear soup is one of my favorite. This chicken clear soup is very refreshing during the summer as I use lime juice in it.Chicken soup has long been touted as a form of folk medicine to treat symptoms of the common cold and related conditions.
The most widely cited of these studies, published in the medical journal Chest in 2000, is by Dr. Stephen Rennard of the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha. He conducted laboratory tests to determine why chicken soup might help colds, beginning with his wife’s homemade recipe, handed down by her Lithuanian grandmother. Using blood samples from volunteers, he showed that the soup inhibited the movement of neutrophils, the most common type of white blood cell that defends against infection. Dr. Rennard theorizes that by inhibiting the migration of these infection-fighting cells in the body, chicken soup essentially helps reduce upper respiratory cold symptoms.
Another study by Mount Sinai researchers in Miami also suggests that chicken soup has more than just a placebo effect. They looked at how chicken soup affected air flow and mucus in the noses of 15 volunteers who drank cold water, hot water or chicken soup. In general, the hot fluids helped increase the movement of nasal mucus, but chicken soup did a better job than the hot water, according to the 1978 report, also published in Chest. Chicken soup also improves the function of protective cilia, the tiny hairlike projections in the nose that prevent contagions from entering the body, according to a 1998 Coping With Allergies and Asthma report.
 None of the research is conclusive, and it’s not known whether the changes measured in the laboratory really have a meaningful effect on people with cold symptoms. However, at the very least, chicken soup with vegetables contains lots of healthy nutrients, increases hydration and tastes good, too.
I am sure you will love this light and refreshing chicken clear soup.

Chicken Clear Soup

Ingredients

• 1 cup boneless chicken cubes
• 1 onion sliced
• 1/2 tsp ginger chopped
• 6 garlic clove
• 1tsp butter/ diet butter
• 1 tbsp coconut milk
• 5 cup water
• 1 tbsp lime juice
• to taste salt and pepper

Cooking Directions

1. Take boneless chicken, ginger, 4 garlic cloves, onion and 5 cups of water in pressure cooker with little salt and pepper and cook for 4 to 5 whistle or until the chicken is well boiled.
2. Strain the chicken stock and keep it aside.
3. Heat butter in a pan and add finely chopped the rest garlic cloves. Fry till brown then add the chicken stock simmer for 8 to 10 minutes. Add coconut milk, lime juice and freshly ground pepper. Mix well. Put off the flame and serve with garlic cheese bread or any bread of your choice. Enjoy a delicious healthy meal in minutes.

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