When you or your family are sick with a cold, it can be hard to get excited about eating much at all.
Your head aches, your nose is stuffed up, and it seems as though your taste buds have taken a long nap.
That’s where good old chicken soup comes in.
Long hailed as the cure for the common cold, it is still offered up as the best way to get some much needed nutrition into your body when you need it most. 
There is something so comforting about a hot bowl of soup. It warms you up from the inside out.
Add some noodles to slurp, easy to chew veggies, and the belly-filling goodness of chicken and you’ve got yourself a winning prescription.
Even if you’re not feeling sniffly, this healthy soup is a filling meal for the whole family.
Ingredients
- 1L of chicken stock (or you can use vegetable stock if you prefer)
- 1 medium sized chicken breast, chopped into 6 chunks
- 1 thumb size piece of fresh ginger, peeled and finely chopped
- 1 garlic clove, finely chopped
- 100g hokkien noodles (or use any type of your favourite noodle)
- Corn from 1 corn cob (or half a can of corn)
- 2 carrots, peeled and finely chopped
- 5 mushrooms, thinly sliced
- 4 spring onions, finely sliced
- 2 tbsp soy sauce
- Parsley, mint or basil leaves, to serve
Method
- Place a large pot over medium to high heat.
- Pour in the stock, chicken, ginger and garlic.
- Bring to the boil, then reduce the heat and simmer partly covered for 20 minutes, until the chicken is tender.
- Remove the chicken and use forks to shred it before returning to the pot.
- Add the noodles, corn, carrot, mushrooms, half the spring onions and the soy sauce.
- Simmer for 3-4 minutes until the noodles are tender.
- Ladle into bowls and scatter over the remaining spring onions and herbs.
