Chicken Soup

Murgh Ka Shorba

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Preparation info
  • Serves:

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

    • Ready in

      35 min

Appears in
No Worries, Just Chicken Curries: 70 Incredible Indian Chicken Recipes

By Suki Pantal

Published 2025

  • About

This nutritious and unassuming soup, with the freshness of coriander/cilantro coupled with the goodness of chicken broth, can revive the faintest of hearts and warm the coldest of souls. Murgh, as you already know, means “chicken”, and the word shorba is derived from the Arabic word shurbah, which means “soup” or “stew”. Believed to have originated in Persia, it was a Mughal import into India. Chicken on the bone is cooked in fragrant spices, herbs, ginger and garlic and simmered in water t