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: 2 chicken breasts, skin on; 240 ml/8 fl oz/1 cup white wine; 1 tbsp finely chopped thyme leaves; 1 tbsp olive oil; a few coriander/cilantro sprigs; 2 celery stalks, diced; 5 cm/2 in piece of fresh root ginger, peeled and halved; 2 garlic cloves, crushed; 2 tsp caster/granulated sugar; 2 chicken thighs, skin on; 2 bay leaves; 2 carrots, peeled and sliced; salt and freshly ground black pepper; 1 small onion, diced; 2 chicken stock cubes, crumbled; 4 whole black peppercorns; 115 g/4 oz fine rice noodles; grated zest and juice of 2 limes

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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