Orange Chicken Soup

Ingredients

• 100g raw chicken breast (this will need to be cooked – steamed/grilled/roasted -then finely chopped or shredded)
• finely chopped silver beet OR spinach OR (red) onion (vegetable quota)
• 2 cups chicken stock
• juice of 1/2 an orange
• 1 teaspoon thyme (dried is fine)
• 1 finely sliced garlic clove or minced garlic to taste
• salt and pepper to taste if required
• optional: a grating of zest from orange peel to decorate when serving

Method

Combine all the ingredients (apart from salt and pepper) into a saucepan, bring to the boil then simmer for about 20 minutes – tasting and adding any needed salt and pepper. A small sprinkle of orange zest on top for serving, if desired.

LEMON CHICKEN SOUP

The above SOUP can be made substituting the ORANGE for LEMON – using the juice of a whole lemon.