Warming Chicken and Asian Vegetable Soup

Recipes for Warming Chicken and Asian Vegetable Soup

Very flavorful; a great chicken soup.

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Serving Size: 4
Cuisine: Asian
Main Ingredient: Chicken
Categories: Low Carb, Low Fat, Winter, Spring, Fall, Soup

-= Ingredients =-
4 chicken breast halves boneless and skinless ; cut into thin slivers
8 cups Chicken broth ; (2 quarts)
1 tablespoon chili paste
1 piece ginger ; about 4 inches wide, unpeeled, chopped coarsely
2 tablespoon sesame oil
2 whole Carrots ; diced
1 cup snow peas ; sliced
4 whole Scallions ; sliced
1 cup Bean sprouts
1/2 cup fresh mint ; choppe

-= Instructions =-
In a large soup pot or dutch oven, place chicken broth, chili paste, garlic, ginger and sesame oil.  Bring mixture to a simmer over high heat.  Reduce heat to low; simmer 15 minutes.

In another large pot, place chicken slices and carrots.  Strain heated broth over chicken and carrots.  Simmer over medium-low heat for 3 minutes.  Stir in snow peas; simmer 1 minute.  Stir in scallions, bean sprouts and mint; simmer an additional 2 minutes.  Serve hot.

Nutritional Analysis, per serving:

329 calories; 12 g fat; 2 g saturated fat; 107% Vitamin A; 66% Vitamin C; 19% Iro