Try Chicken Soup For A Cold

Since there is little else that you can do to take care of a cold, why not try the traditional remedy of chicken soup? Scientists have shown that there are several qualities of the soup that can at least make you to feel better so why not cook up some soup and feel better?

You can make some very good chicken soup by using roasted chicken. You may want to use the leftovers from a whole chicken that you have cooked the night before in your kitchenaid oven. You will require a total of approximately three cups of chicken. If you do not have leftovers from the nigh before, the you can pick up a chicken that was baked in a rotisserie oven at almost any local grocery store.

While you can buy a commercially prepared chicken soup base, it is easy to make your own using the carcass of the roasted chicken that you took the meat off of. Throw all the bones into a stock pot and add a few vegetables for additional flavor. Boil over low heat or in a crock pot for several hours to make a rick stock for your soup. Strain the rich broth and throw the bones and vegetables out.

You will then add the cubed chicken to the stock and more chopped vegetables. If you have your black decker food processor, you will find the task of chopping vegetables much easier.

In addition the vegetables, you may want to add some pasta to the soup. Since pasta continues to swell in the soup broth, you might consider cooking pasta on the side and serving the soup over the pasta. You will find that the pasta keeps its shape much better this way. This also allows you to freeze your chicken soup without the pasta breaking down.

By preparing your own soup, you are able to control the amount of salt that is added to your food. Canned soups are often very high in sodium, which may present problems to persons with certain health conditions. The method of preparing your own stock from the roasted bird gives you even more control over the amount of sodium in your food.

In addition, by making your own soup, you are able to load the soup with fresh vegetables to increase the nutritional content of this very good food.

Whenever you feel a cold starting, head home and prepare a big pot of your own chicken soup. It will keep in the refrigerator for several days and can also be frozen. When you do not feel like doing anything else, cuddle up in your blanket with a hot cup of soup and watch your favorite movies.