Kick It Immune Boosting Chicken Soup

• 1 roasting chicken, skin, bones, the whole deal
• 2 large onions
• 10 garlic cloves
• 10 g fresh gingerroot (use to taste)
• 2 chilies (discard seeds for less heat)
• 2 stalks celery
• 2 carrots
• 1 cup diced sweet potatoes (or both) or 1 cup parsnip (or both)
• 1 cup shiitake mushroom
• 1 cup soup mix
• pearl barley
• red kidney beans
• split peas
• black-eyed peas
• green lentil
• 1 1/2 - 2 liters chicken stock

1. Dice onions, chilli, ginger and sweet potato/parsnip.
2. Dice or crush garlic.
3. Slice celery, carrots.
4. Wash chicken inside and out and place into a large stock pot.
5. Put all ingredients into the pot and cover with chicken stock.
6. Bring soup to the boil, then simmer for approx 2 - 2.5 hours or until the chicken falls of the bone.
7. (I use a pressure cooker to cook mine for approx 1 hr).
8. Pull chicken out of soup and discard all bones and large clumps of fat.
9. Return chicken meat to soup.
10. For a variation, try adding a ham hock to the ingredients as well!
11. This chicken soup does have a bite, but it it will sweat out all those nasty cold bugs!
12. Enjoy!

chicken, onions, garlic, fresh gingerroot, chilies, stalks celery, carrots, sweet potatoes, shiitake mushroom, soup mix, pearl barley, red kidney beans, peas, blackeyed peas, green lentil, chicken

Taken from www.food.com/recipe/kick-it-immune-boosting-chicken-soup-276420 (may not work)