Cleansing Ginger-Chicken Soup

Ingredients for Cleansing Ginger-Chicken Soup

• 1 onion, sliced

• 2 celery stalks, chopped

• 230g unpeeled scrubbed ginger, cut into 1/2"-thick slices

• 2 garlic cloves, crushed

• 10 whole black peppercorns

• 450g whole organic chicken, cut into 7 pieces (2 breasts, 2 legs with thighs attached, 2 wings, 1 back)

• Kosher salt

• Coriander leaves (optional)

How to make Cleansing Ginger-Chicken Soup

Combine the first 5 ingredients in a large heavy pot. Add chicken, placing breasts on top. Add 5.7L water (preferably filtered or spring water); bring to a boil over medium-high heat. Cover with lid slightly ajar. Reduce heat to low; simmer until chicken breasts are just cooked through, about 30 minutes. Transfer chicken breasts to a plate; let cool, then cover and chill. Continue to simmer soup, uncovered, until broth is fully flavoured, about 2 1/2 hours longer. Return breasts to soup to rewarm, about 5 minutes.

Remove chicken from broth. When cool enough to handle, coarsely shred meat; discard skin and bones. Place a fine-mesh sieve over another large pot; strain broth, discarding solids in strainer (you should have about 1925ml broth). Season with salt.

Rewarm soup. Divide chicken among bowls. Pour hot broth over, dividing equally. Garnish soup with coriander leaves, if desired.

Disclaimer

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