Chicken and sweet corn soup (RECIPE)

Chicken & Sweet Corn soup. There’s nothing better to warm you up or provide comfort and ease you through a cold or flu. This recipe also contains ginger, traditionally used for helping to relieve nausea and vomiting.

Ingredients

Serves 2

• 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
• 350g chicken breast, diced
• 1 garlic clove, finely chopped
• 1 cm piece ginger, peeled, grated
• 1 tablespoon cornflour
• 2 tablespoons dark soy sauce
• 2 cups reduced salt chicken stock
• 125g tin sweet corn kernels
• 1 egg
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• 2 green onions, thinly sliced to garnish
• Toasted sesame seeds to garnish
• Cracked black pepper

Instructions

1. Heat oil in a pan, cook together the chicken, ginger and garlic for 4-5 minutes.
2. Mix cornflour with soy sauce, add to pan with stock and corn. Bring to boil, stir, reduce heat, and simmer for 6-8 minutes.
3. Mix egg and lemon juice together. Slowly pour a small stream of egg mixture into soup pan while stirring to create thin egg strands.
4. Divide soup between 2 deep bowls. Use green onion and sesame seeds to garnish.