Description
Keto Chicken Soup uses chicken thighs, spices, lemon, and bok choy and carrots (optional). Pairs with delish non alcoholic wine.
Ingredients
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6 thighs (organic if possible) (chicken breasts for Keto Heart Healthy)
10 cups water (1 cup per thigh, plus 4 cups for evaporation)
1 small onion sliced
4 cloves garlic, minced
1-inch piece of fresh ginger, grated
1 teaspoon turmeric
1 cup chopped carrots (optional)
Juice from one lemon
12 mini bok choy, washed, bottoms cut off
Instructions
- Place 6 skinless chicken thighs in 10 cups of water in a soup pot.
- Bring to a boil, reduce heat to simmer for 2 hours on low.
- Get all ingredients ready for adding to the soup.
- Using chicken fat from skins, sauté onions, garlic, ginger, turmeric until aromatic.
- Add all these ingredients
- Remove skin from chicken. Set skin in a saute pan and fry slowly until crispy. When skins are crisp, remove and drain on a paper towel.
- Keep the chicken liquid fat in the pan.
- Give the chicken skins to the dogs!
- Meanwhile, get other ingredients ready.
- Place chicken thighs in a pot with water.
- Bring to a boil.
- Reduce to low and let simmer.
- In this sauté pan with the chicken, fat add onion, garlic, ginger, and turmeric.
- Sauté for 2 minutes until onions are soft and garlic is aromatic.
- Add sauté pan combination to the soup pot with the chicken thighs.
- Add carrots and lemon juice.
- Let simmer for 2 hours.
- To serve place 3 bok choy per person at the bottom of a soup bowl.
- Pour soup on top.
- Serve hot.
Notes
- The recipe is based on the keto version and is approximate only. One serving has 4 grams of net carbs, excluding the carrots.
- (Note: The nutritional information provided is a courtesy and is approximate only. We cannot guarantee the nutritional accuracy of any recipe on this site. We cannot now what brands you use or how accurately you follow the recipe or what you like to add creatively to the dish. Use the information as a general guideline only. Net carbs are the total carbs minus the fiber.)
- Prep Time: 15
- Cook Time: 2 Hours
- Category: KETO LOW-CARB
- Method: SIMMERING
- Cuisine: DINNER
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1
- Calories: 240
- Sugar: 2
- Sodium: 150
- Fat: 10
- Saturated Fat: 2.5
- Unsaturated Fat: 7.5
- Trans Fat: 0
- Carbohydrates: 5
- Fiber: 1
- Protein: 31.5
- Cholesterol: 157.5