Not your Grandma's chicken soup

The past couple weeks its been getting chilly in Wisconsin and so many of my patients are getting sick:(  Unfortunately this includes myself and my husband! The sinus infections and head colds that are flying around are keeping people miserable for days and even weeks at a time! I have had a lot of request to share my chicken soup recipe so here you go! I really hope none of you reading this are fighting off this cold, but if you are make and enjoy, I promise it will help :)

This recipe may seem a little odd to some of you. It's defiantly not your grandma's chicken soup! It's a combination of my own recipe with principles of herbal medicine for those under the weather fall days. Add a dash of Chinese Medicine to a traditional favorite and viola immune boosting magic! Until next time remember to keep your wind gates (neck) covered with your favorite scarves and stay healthy!! 

                                                      Goji Berry Chicken Soup

Ingredients:

2 chicken thighs and drumsticks (preferably organic)

Water to immerse the chicken pieces

1 large onion, peeled and sliced

medium shallot diced

8 garlic cloves minced

2 medium potatoes 

5 organic carrots 

2 inch ginger, peeled and shredded
8 shitake mushrooms, caps only
5 tbsp dried goji berries, soaked in water to re hydrate

2 cups diced kale 

1 bunch green onion diced

2 teaspoons butter 

Splash of vinegar

Directions:

1. Saute onion onion, shallot, garlic in melted butter until soft and aromatic

2. Prep chicken wit salt pepper and herbs du province 

3. Combine chicken with onion, garlic and shallot and add a splash of vinegar

4. Combine half water half organic chicken stock

5.  Boil until chicken starts to fall off bone 

4. Remove chicken and de bone 

5. Add all remaining veggies except green onion, ginger and goji 

6. Cook until carrots are tender 

7. Add chicken, green onion and ginger 

8. In separate pot boil goji berries and rinse 

9. Add goji berries 

10. Combine and serve