This Turmeric Chicken and Veggies Soup is a super healthy way to beat the winter blues. Superfoods turmeric and kale provide a powerful combinations of antioxidants, anti-inflammatories, and vitamins to kick your immune system up for cold and flu season. Plus it tastes great!

I love soups. They’re easy to throw together, make great leftovers, and travel well for work lunches. Ingredients are often easy to find and affordable as well which makes soups a great go to meal for any diet.

However, after looking at countless soup recipes I’ve found many of them make the same error. They under-season. This Turmeric Chicken and Veggies Soup was adapted from a similar curry soup recipe that I found. One big difference, that recipe suggested using 1/2 tsp of salt. For the whole pot of soup. I’m sorry, that’s incorrect.

Unless you are using really salty broth I suggest using quite a bit more to achieve a good flavor. My typical rule of thumb is to start with 2 tsp for a whole pot of soup and then taste it. Add more if needed. Between 2 and 3 tsp seems to be the averge for a pot for me.

Under-seasoning is a huge mistake when making elimination diet recipes. Your diet is already limited, the last thing you want to do is not add flavor to what you can have! So please, taste this Turmeric Chicken and Veggies Soup while it’s still in the pot and season with more salt and pepper until it really tastes right. You’ll be happy you did.

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Benefits of Turmeric

Turmeric has long been praised for its incredible health benefits. People claim it can help with everything from heart to brain health, ease inflammation, reduce joint pain, prevent some cancers, treat depression, and much more.

The basis for this claim lies with a component of turmeric called curcumin. Curcumin is a natural anti-inflammatory. However, curcumin is fat soluable and difficult to absorb by itself. Studies show that curcumin is most effective when taken with fat (like the olive oil in this soup) and with another compound called piperine (found in black pepper). So recipes that use all three might raise the bioavailability and effectiveness of the turmeric.

As with all claims of this nature they should be taken with a grain of salt, or in this case, black pepper. It is important to remember dosage and not to put too much stock in 1 tsp of turmeric in a whole pot of soup. But hey, it definitely couldn’t hurt!

Ingredients

2 cooked chicken breasts, chopped
1 yellow onion, diced
2 carrots, peeled and diced
2 stalks celery, diced
1 medium parsnip, peeled and diced
1 medium yellow squash, diced
3 cloves garlic, minced
2 tsp dried parsley
1 tsp ground turmeric
1/2 tsp ground ginger
2-3 tsp salt, or to taste
1/2 tsp black pepper
4 cups chicken broth
2/3 cup coconut milk
1/2 head kale, chopped
olive oil

Instructions

heat a large soup pot over medium low heat, drizzle with olive oil
add the onions, carrots, and celery and sautee for about 10-12 minutes, until the onions become transluscent
add the garlic and seasonings, sautee about 1 minute more
add the parsnips, squash, chicken broth, and coconut milk, bring to a boil
reduce heat to a simmer and cook uncovered for about 1/2 an hour, until the parsnips are softened
add the kale and stir well
serve hot