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

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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