Cure-me-quick soup with chicken, noodles, ginger & lime

Name: Cure-me-quick soup with chicken, noodles, ginger & lime
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 1 h 15 min
Total time: 1 h 45 min
Yield: Serves: 4
Ingredients: 5 cm/2 in piece of fresh root ginger, peeled and halved; 4 whole black peppercorns; 2 tsp caster/granulated sugar; salt and freshly ground black pepper; grated zest and juice of 2 limes; 2 chicken stock cubes, crumbled; 2 celery stalks, diced; 2 garlic cloves, crushed; 1 small onion, diced; 2 chicken thighs, skin on; 115 g/4 oz fine rice noodles; 2 bay leaves; 1 tbsp olive oil; 240 ml/8 fl oz/1 cup white wine; 2 carrots, peeled and sliced; 2 chicken breasts, skin on; a few coriander/cilantro sprigs; 1 tbsp finely chopped thyme leaves

Preparation info

Serves:
4

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
1 hr 45

Appears in

Pimp My Rice

By Nisha Katona

Published 2017

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We all know chicken soup is dispensed in God’s own pharmacy, but so often it tastes of dishwater. Not this one – it is full of big flavours that have big health benefits. The lime packs a good vitamin-C punch, the bones and skin perform their antibiotic magic, plus this big pan of golden goodness serves four, as I’m presuming you have infected your nearest and dearest. Look, freak not at the floating scum stage. Spoon a bit of it off but don’t be too OCD. The mother soup will reabsorb any l

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