Immunity-boosting bone broth chicken soup – with bold flavors of chilies and antioxidant-rich spices.
{Disclosure: As a co-owner of The Recipe ReDux, I was compensated to manage this recipe contest with Prpgresso. Thoughts and opinions are my own.}
This Chicken Soup is guaranteed to cure your cold.
OK, so maybe I can’t give you a ‘money-back guarantee’ on the immunity claim. (Side note ==>We’ve been shopping for bunk beds at my house – and I wonder WHO cashes in a money-back-guarantee on bunk beds? #TooMuchHassle)
But I can tell you a hot steamy bowl of Chicken Soup with Chilies and Sweet Potatoes has lots of good stuff to bolster your immune system:
- Chilies: To help clear the sinuses; plus chilies – spicy and mild – have anti-inflammatory properties.
- Honey: More anti-inflammatory affects; and as I just wrote about to help soothe a cough.
- Tomatoes and sweet potatoes: Both veggies are rich in the antioxidant vitamin C. Extra vitamin C can help your annoying cold last fewer days.
- Spices: Spices are like antioxidant powerhouses.
- Bone broth: My Grandmother Hammer would’ve called it chicken soup and she made it every Sunday evening by simmering the carcass of the roast chicken she served for Sunday Dinner. (Which may be why she lived to nearly 100.) Nutrition researchers have found that chicken soup made from bone broth helps bolster the immune system. Yup – really! Dr. Roland from University of Nebraska did almost 200 studies on his wife’s chicken soup – and you can see her make it in her fun kitchen in this video!
I did not boil down my chicken carcass for this recipe – although I usually do any time I make Ugly Roasted Chicken.
Instead, I was excited to try out Progresso Unsalted Chicken Cooking Stock as part of The Recipe ReDux recipe #ProgressoEatsContest. It’s hard to find a good unsalted stock; but I was pleased with the unami flavor delivered by the Cooking Stock which is “simmered with real bones.” And the ingredient label has a long list of veggies including celery, onion, carrot, cabbage and parsley. Thanks to all these layers of flavors – and the other salty ingredients like canned tomatoes – I didn’t even have to add any salt to my final recipe.A bold pot of chicken soup: Bone Broth Chicken Soup w/ Chilies and Sweet Potatoes via @TspCurry #AD #TheRecipeReDux Click To Tweet
So…please let me know if a big pot of this bold Chicken Soup helps cure your cold….
(However, I’m not sure I can guarantee how well it will work for curing headaches caused by children’s arguments …over who will get to sleep on the top bunk! ARGGGH!)
PrintBone Broth Chicken Soup with Chilies and Sweet Potatoes
- Yield: 4-6 servings 1x
Description
Immunity-boosting bone broth chicken soup – with bold flavors of chilies and antioxidant-rich spices.
Ingredients
- 1 box (32 oz) Progresso Cooking Stock Unsalted Chicken
- 1 can (14 oz) crushed tomatoes
- 1 can (4 oz) diced green chilies
- 2 tablespoons canola oil
- 1 small onion, chopped
- 2 cups peeled, cubed sweet potato (about 1 medium)
- 1 teaspoon cumin seed, crushed
- 1 teaspoon chili powder
- 2 tablespoons white whole wheat flour
- 1 can (15 oz) cannellini beans, drained, rinsed
- 2 cups diced cooked chicken (about 10 oz)
- 2 tablespoons honey
- Fresh cilantro, chopped
Instructions
- In a large soup pot, combine Cooking Stock, tomatoes and chilies, simmer, covered while continuing with recipe. (Reserve Cooking Stock box!)
- In a large skillet, heat oil over medium heat. Add onion and sweet potato; cook about 5 minutes until onion is beginning to turn golden. Sprinkle in cumin seed and chili powder; cook 2 minutes. Sprinkle in flour and cook, stirring, 1 minutes. Meanwhile fill the Cooking Stock box with 1 cup water and shake vigorously to get all the flavor bits on the bottom of the box; slowly whisk into flour mixture and cook until thick – about 2 minutes.
- Ladle 1 cup of stock mixture into thickened flour mixture and stir to thin. Pour entire contents of skillet into soup pot and let cook at a simmer stirring often for 5 minutes. Add beans, chicken and honey; and cook until heated through. Serve with cilantro.
Have you ever thought soup could cure anything that ailed you? Noodles or no noodles in chicken soup?
Check out all the other savvy stock creations in the #ProgressoEatsContest from fellow Recipe ReDux members below.
Tara | Treble in the Kitchen
Wednesday 17th of January 2018
I have been craving everything warm and soupy lately - it's frigid here in Indiana!! This looks like it would be SO satisfying :)
Alaine
Sunday 17th of January 2016
Sounds delicious! I've never tried a combination of green chiles and sweet potatoes in the same dish - will have to try this out.
Serena Ball
Sunday 17th of January 2016
Oooo-eee Alaine! (: You will be blown away by the sweet spicy combo...we eat green chilies on our baked sweet potatoes topped with black beans and Mexican queso! Your sweet potatoes will never be the same, girl! Try it out!
dixya | food, pleasure, and health
Thursday 14th of January 2016
i agree...i think a piping hot bowl of soup with chicken and lots of veggies do have some magical power.
Tara | Treble in the Kitchen
Tuesday 12th of January 2016
This sounds like it would have SO much flavor!! Yum!
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Monday 11th of January 2016
Mmmm the chilis are a perfect way to bring some extra "warmth"!
Serena Ball
Monday 11th of January 2016
Thanks Rebecca! Here's hoping you aren't feeling under the weather to make this!