Golden Healing Soup

Golden Healing Soup

By: Naomi Sherman

We all understand that absolutelynothing is muchbetter when you’re ill than a huge bowl of chicken and veggie soup. Add the effective advantages of saffron, turmeric and ginger and this soup endsupbeing a recovery powerhouse. It’s like a bowl of sunlight for your tired soul.

Ingredients

• 2 pinches saffron threads
• 165mL coconut milk
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 lot kale, sliced (or replacement with spinach or silver beet)
• 2 tablespoon butter or oil
• 1 lemon, cut into wedges, to serve
• 4 medium chicken breast fillets
• 1 onion, diced
• 3 yellow capsicums, sliced (or orange, red, or a mix)
• 3 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 tablespoon fresh ginger, grated
• 1.5L chicken stock or bone broth
• 1 medium sweet potato, peeled & diced
• 2 tsp fresh thyme, sliced
• 2 tsp ground turmeric

Method

• Place saffron and salt in a little bowl and rub together with the back of a spoon.
• In a big pan or pot, heat butter or oil and cook chicken about 4 minutes per side, upuntil well browned. Remove to a plate.
• In the verysame pot, carefully sauté onion and capsicum for 5 mins, till soft, then include garlic, ginger and saffron salt, cook 1 minutes evenmore.
• Add chicken stock, sweet potato, thyme, pepper and turmeric. Return chicken to pot.
• Cover, bring to boil, then lower heat and simmer for 30 minutes.
• Remove chicken breasts, slice or shred, then return the meat to the pot along with coconut milk and kale. Cook roughly 5 minutes longer, upuntil kale is to your preference.
• Serve with lemon wedges to capture over soup.