Not Your Grandma’s Chicken Soup (Instant Pot)
When we think of chicken soup, you’d probably imagine the classic broth that you’d slurp right from the bowl.
What makes this soup unique is the fact that I cook the whole chicken in with the other core ingredients of the soup. This makes it more like a chicken bone broth rather than your plain ol’ chicken soup. Once your chicken soup has cooled it will get almost gelatin like, and not as liquidy as your typical stovetop chicken soup. This Jell-O like consistency proves that the collagen has been pulled from the bones of the chicken providing you tons of delicious nutrition. And all the while, only taking about 40 minutes in total to prepare, cook and serve.
This is my first recipe on the site that includes me. This is because I am now introducing me back into my diet! Soup or stock or broth, to me, seems like the easiest way to transition. There’s proven health benefits to consuming bone broth but also is an easier way to digest for my body (with the help of a digestive enzyme of course!)
After nine years of no meat, although I did eat fish, this is my way of slowly introducing it back into my diet. What better way than a healthier version of your grandmas chicken soup?
Serves ~6 bowls (made in a 6 qt IP)
You’ll need …
1 yellow onion, cut into sections
1 stalk of celery, trimmed and innermost pieces removed, chopped
4 carrots, chopped
3 cloves of garlic, smashed
1 knob of ginger, peeled
1/2 green pepper
1 parsnip
bunch of fresh parsley
1 tsp sea salt
1/2 tsp black pepper
1 whole organic chicken (innards removed)
What to do …
Sauté onion, celery, carrots and garlic until onions are translucent in the IP.
Add remaining ingredients, and chicken is the last to go in. Fill the water until the max fill line or until the chicken is mostly submerged.
Seal your IP and set for soup/broth. Mine was set for 25 minutes.
When pressure is released, remove whole chicken and bones into a separate bowl.
Remove piece of ginger and discard.
I used half the chicken in the soup, feel free to shred the chicken and put back into the IP. The other half of the chicken I turned into chicken salad for my hubby.
Enjoy!
