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Spicy Winter Soup

Spicy Winter Soup

During the winter months, we are particularly prone to picking up colds and chest infections. For me, winter is THE season to ensure my diet is nutrient rich to help stave off those nasty bacteria and viruses! To do this, keeping warm is absolutely essential, and there is nothing better at raising the body temperature than a hot’n’spicy winter soup!

Soups are a great way of getting vitamins and minerals quickly into your body. The nutrients from the plethora of ingredients seep into the water which packs a powerful nutritional punch!

So, onto my Spicy Winter Soup for up to 4 people!

I have some favourite ingredients which you will see over and over again in my main dishes and those are onions, red onions, spring onions, garlic, ginger and of course chilli! Give me those ingredients, and depending on the order in which I use them, I can cook you an Indian, Italian or Turkish dish!

INGREDIENTS

1 onion

1 red onion

3 spring onions

4 cloves of garlic (I love garlic in my food)

1 cm of ginger

1 large tomato or 6 cherry tomatoes

1 red chilli

1 green chilli

1 long red pepper

1 long green pepper

1 Parsnip

1 Leek

1 Sweet Potato

1 Carrot

1 Chicken Breast

Olive oil

Salt

Pepper

1 litre of filtered and boiled water

 INSTRUCTIONS

  1. In a saucepan on ¾ heat, add 3 tablespoons of olive oil (put the water on to boil in a kettle);
  2. Slice and dice the onions (hold back the green leaves of the spring onions until the end), garlic (I cut the garlic knobs up, press them in a garlic crusher and add them directly into the saucepan) and ginger and add to the saucepan to sauté. Stir regularly until the mix starts to bronze;
  3. Chop in the tomato(es) and cook until they soften;
  4. Cut the chicken breast into cubes, add to the saucepan and cook (and stir!) until all raw bits disappear;
  5. Chop in the parsnip, leek, sweet potato and carrot and add them to the boiling water for 5 minutes;
  6. Chop in the chillies and peppers (if you want your soup spicier, add the chillies with the boiling water);
  7. Taste the soup and add salt and pepper according to your preference;
  8. Cover with the lid and leave the soup to simmer on a medium heat for around 10 minutes;
  9. Add the chopped spring onion leaves and cover for 5 minutes;
  10. Feel free to add any coriander to garnish and you are ready to !
Spicy Winter Soup Ingredients
Spicy Winter Soup Ingredients
Onions, garlic, ginger, chillies
Onions, garlic, ginger, chillies
Chopped Chicken!
Cooking Mix
Chopped Peppers and Chillies
Add in the tomatoes
Soup with Vegetables
Add boiling water and chopped vegetables
Simmer for 10 minutes
The last bit before we can finally eat!
Spring Onion Green Leaves

Preparation time: 15 minutes

Cooking time: 30 minutes

Eating time: 5-10 minutes

Serves up to 4 people

Do let me know how you get on and please feel free to provide me with your feedback!

In the meantime, enjoy your Spicy Winter Soup!

Slurp up your spicy soup!
Slurp up your spicy soup!
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Welcome to Spiced Up By Bilal!

Hi! My name is Bilal Bham and I would like to welcome you to my blog, Spiced Up By Bilal!

I decided to create this blog because:

  1. I have some big health challenges which are lactose intolerance which means I can’t digest any dairy products like milk, cheese or yoghurt; and I have issues digesting refined carbs like bread, chapatti, rice and pasta. So I need to make food without dairy and refined carbs – no pizza for me! I also suffer from acid reflux and IBS (irritable bowel syndrome).
  2. I have some big fitness goals and lead a healthy and active lifestyle by going to the gym 5 times a week and dancing salsa in the evenings – so I need food that will provide me with a lot of energy and also help me keep making gains in the gym!
  3. I have some big taste needs! Much of the healthy food I see out there is pretty bland and boring and coming from an Indian background, I need a daily dose of tasty and mildly spicy food!

I know there are many people out there like me who have similar health challenges and lifestyle needs but still want to enjoy healthy tasty and spicy food!

So, I hope you enjoy what I will be serving up to you via Spiced Up By Bilal!