Chicken Soup
Updated: August 26, 2022, By Swasthi
Chicken soup recipe – Learn how to make healthy chicken soup at home. It is mildly flavored with Indian spices and can be adjusted to suit your taste. You can add veggies of your choice like potatoes, corn, carrots, peas, pumpkin & mushrooms. Simmering various kinds of veggies lend a unique aroma and taste to the soup.
Chicken soup can be made in so many ways. For years I never followed any particular recipe. I would just prepare it in whatever way I feel like and is easy for me. But when a lot of people asked me to share a good recipe. I decided to follow this particular recipe & it turned out unbelievably yummy every time I made it.
When my kids have cold I make this very often. I feel it helps them to heal naturally with in few days.
I generally keep them only on this soup and few spoons of rice, as it is lighter to digest.
I also add some veggies or corn since my kids love them in the soup. This tastes very close to the chicken soup that is served in pizza hut in Singapore, except that mine has an added flavor of ghee and spices.
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Chicken soup recipe | How to make Indian chicken soup
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Ingredients (US cup = 240ml )
Ingredients for chicken soup
Spices
- 1 small bay leaf
- 4 pepper corn
- 2 inch cinnamon piece
Instructions
- Add chicken, potatoes, mixed vegetables, and 3 cup water to a cooker or pot.
- Tear the bay leaf to pieces and break the cinnamon. Add them along with pepper corn.
- Pressure cook for 3 whistles or boil until the chicken is tender & falls off the bone.
- Set the chicken aside. Shred the meat and discard the bones.
How to make chicken soup
- Heat a deep pan with oil, sauté ginger and garlic for a minute.
- Add carrots and sweet corn fry for a min.
- Strain the chicken stock to the pan and boil for a while until the corn and carrots are tender.
- Add salt and the shredded chicken. Turn off.
- Cool down the chicken soup a bit then squeeze in the lemon juice and add more pepper powder.
- Serve chicken soup warm. You can also add some boiled noodles to this.
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Comments
I love it
This recipe looks amazing and ideal for my daughter studying away from home.
Can this soup be frozen?
Would like to have more chicken soups understood the stock
Hi Swasthi,
Do you have a video of this recipie? what happens to the mixed veggies in the chicken broth? do we discard them? video will be helpful!
Hi Sonia,
I don’t have a video yet. I plan to make it in the next few months. When you strain the chicken broth, the mixed veggies are left in the strainer. They actually become too soft and lifeless, good to discard or compost. But if you want to add more body & fiber to your soup, blend some of the mixed veggies and stir back. Hope you give it a try!
Hi Swasthi! I just made your chicken soup! It’s the first time n my life I’ve ever made chicken soup and also first time using a pressure cooker! I’m 58, by the way .. better late than never! It smells and tastes wonderful.. I hope my 88 year old mum will agree .. she was the motivation to get past my fear of pressure cookers and make her a good healthy meal .. she’s just out of hospital and needs good nutritious stuff like this for her heart and lungs to get strong. I must go through your site and see what else would be good for her (and easy for me!) Do you have any recipes you would recommend for our situation?
Hi Nazu,
That’s nice to know! Hope Mom likes it! I am not sure what she can have. A little online research may be helpful in this case. If she can have the chicken soup often, try adding some grains like rice, barley, dalia, steel cut oats etc. Sorry! couldn’t reply you on time as I was on a vacation and travelling. I wish Mom a speedy recovery!!
I make chicken soup following your steps, it’s a very delicious recipe every body of my family enjoy it . Thanks
Thank you Apurba
I have been recovering from having Nissen Fundoplication surgery.
Your soups are a lfe saver.
I had to leave out some of the spices but with the chicken meat put through a blender as with some veges made the soup perfect for me.
I’m and older man who isn’t a great cook the recipe was so.easy to follow.
Thanks ?
Hi Peter,
Good to know the recipes are helpful. Love the way you made this chicken soup. We wish you a speedy recovery!
Namasté
Dear Swasthi,
Lately I made delicious Chicken Korma with chicken breast, so had the breastbones with rests of attached meat left over. Used them for cooking chicken broth.
Used it this sunday morning to cook your Indian chicken soup, including Pak Choy I had in my fridge. Accompanied by Ravi Shankar´s sithar music.
It turned out super delicious, and I´ll have it tonight as supper with some (sorry: chinese) noodles.
Thank you so much for sharing your delicious recipes.
Best regards,
Cornelius
Namaste Cornelius,
That’s nice to know! Thank you for sharing back how you made it.
Soooo Good?????????
Nice recipe .Thanks
Making this for my dad who is in hospital hope it gives him the recovery that he deserves ?
Babna,
Don’t worry! Your dad will be alright! Wishing him a speedy recovery!
So easy to follow and delicious
Came out really well.. tried with a bit of extra boiled noodles and was a complete meal 🙂 thank you!
Thank you so much for your time to let me know how it turned out.
Hello Madam, I am a regular follower and fan of your recipe, the first choice in my family is to search your receipe when a new food is to be tried. We love you and we appreciate a lot of hardwork behind the receipes
Hi Abhishek,
So Happy to know you all look for my recipes! Thank you so much for this lovely note.
🙂
Liked your recipe on chicken soup. Very simple to prepare yet so tasty ??
Thank you so much Tessy
Loved it. Thank you
Glad to know Renuka
Thank you!
Made it last night and it was awesome. Came out just the way I like it.
Thank you
That’s great Renuka!
Thank you so much Ms.Swasthi! Have been preparing and giving this for my son since he was 8months old whenever he gets cold cough… It really does the magic by decongesting the phlegm and help breath easier.
Hi Subhasini
Glad to know it works!
Thank you
🙂
Hi. Why do you not put the carrots into the pressure cooker with the rest of the vege?
Hi Susan,
Yes you can add carrots as well (any mixed vegetables)
I tried this recipe and my little one liked it….best chicken soup I have ever tried 🙂
Glad to know! Thank you
I made chicken soup it was very nice
Thank you