Free Healthy Recipe - Sweet and Sour Chicken Soup

Dairy free, Low carbohydrate, Low GI

This is a "healthed up" version of a classic sweet and sour soup and according to JP our food photographer is the best he's ever tasted. Do invest in a great quality chicken stock with no added MSG in its many guises.

Ingredients

2 small bird's eye chilli, seeded and chopped

1 large clove garlic

1 tbsp rice syrup

1 litre chicken stock

3 tbsp sodium-reduced soy sauce

1 organic chicken breast finely sliced

½ cup mixed mushrooms, diced (include shitake, enoki, oyster)

¼ tsp ground white pepper

¼ cup apple cider vinegar

1 can bamboo shoots, finely sliced

1 tbsp ground kudzu

1 free range egg beaten

2 shallots finely chopped

Method

Pound the chilli, garlic and rice syrup together to form a paste. Pour the chicken stock into a pan with the sliced chicken, soy sauce, shitake mushrooms and chilli paste and simmer gently for ten minutes.

Add the pepper, vinegar and bamboo shoots and simmer for a further three minutes.
Mix the ground kudzu in 2 tablespoons of cold water to a smooth paste and add to the soup to simmer for a further five minutes.
Beat egg in a small jug and slowly pour it into the soup stirring as you pour.
Serve the soup with chopped shallots over the top.

Note: Kudzu is from a root and as acts as a natural thickener. It has an alkalising effect on the body and is gluten free. Available from health food stores.

Makes 4 servings

Prep Time:	10 mins
Cooking Time:	25 mins
Ready in:	35 mins
Suitable for:
Dinner, Lunch, Soup

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Nutritional Information - Per Serve
Kj	588 kj
Calories	141 kcal
Fat	4.8 g
Saturated Fat	1.7 g
Total Carbohydrate	7.8 g
Total Protein	15.9 g
Fibre	1.2 g

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