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Chicken with Oregano & Basil Soup

Makes 6 servings, approx. cook time is 1 hour, 20 minutes.


Ingredients:

1 small, whole organic chicken
2 litres water and broth from roasted chicken
7 cloves garlic
4 cups each carrots and celery
3 cups thickly chopped onions
½ cup cooked brown rice
1 tbsp. dried oregano
1 tbsp. dried basil
1 tbsp. olive oil (to roast the chicken)
sea salt and pepper

Cooking instructions:

Roast Chicken : Heat oven to 190ºc. Check for bags inside the chest cavity. Rinse and pat dry, place in roasting pan. Stuff chicken’s chest with 1 cup chopped onion and 3 garlic cloves. Massage olive oil into skin, sprinkle some of your oregano, basil, sea salt and freshly ground pepper on greased chicken. Pour filtered water in bottom of pan, about an inch high.

Cook for 30 minutes, take off cover, cook for another 10 minutes. Set aside and let cool.

Debone chicken, separating the white and dark meat from the rest. you can freeze these chicken scraps and use it to make chicken broth with later.

Soup : Throw chicken meat, broth from roasted chicken and everything else on the ingredient list together in a pot. Bring to boil and simmer for 20 minutes.

enjoy :)

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