Recipe> Chicken & Onion Soup

Text by: Tanya Munshi

As a home remedy for common cold, I suggest you have a bowl of chicken and onion soup. The days you don’t feel too hungry, don’t skip a meal, have a bowl of soup and that should fill your tummy.

Normally when I buy chicken, I keep a portion of soup bones and some chicken meat away that comes handy when I make the soup. These are the type of pieces that you can skip adding in a curry. By the way, you can add the usual chicken pieces too if you want.

Ingredients
250 gms of soup bones/ small chicken pieces
1 large size onion rings
5-6 nos. garlic cleaned, but not chopped
A pinch of thyme
A pinch of dried lemon grass
½ tsp black pepper
Salt to taste
1 tbsp of low fat butter/ olive oil
2 cups water

Method

• Heat a pressure cooker and add the butter/ oil.
• Now add the onion rings and garlic and sauté very lightly. We don’t intend browning the onions and garlic. We only want to coat them well with butter/ oil.
• Now add the chicken pieces and mix well.
• Pour 2 cups of water and add salt, black pepper, thyme, lemon grass and mix well.
  After the first boil, cover the lid and give it 2-3 whistles.
• Allow the steam to escape completely and once it cools, take out all the chicken pieces and bones.
• Pour the entire soup in a mixer-grinder and mix well.
• Heat before serving, place garlic bread/ bread sticks on the side.

Note: You must be wondering, what happened to all the chicken pieces I took out? There’s another recipe for that too! Read on.