My hubby caught a cold, so I cooked this soup for him :)
Preparation Time; 10 minutes
Cooking Time: 20 minutes
Servings: 2
Difficulty: Easy
Ingredients:
- 1 large onion
- 2 cloves of garlic
- 6 stalks of celery
- half chicken
- water
- salt
Directions:
1. Chop the onion, garlic and celery into small pieces
2. Cut the chicken. Get rid of all the fats if you are particular like me
3. Boil the water in the pot
4. Put all the ingredients into the pot
5. Lower the heat to a slow simmer
6. Cover the pot and cook it for around 20 minutes
7. Add salt to your taste
8. Serve hot
The soup will cause body temperature to rise, so expect some sweating, remain well covered and rest. Get well soon hunny :)
Benefits of celery:
1. Eating celery will reduce high blood pressure and give the effect of calmness.
2. Celery clears uric acid from painful joints and may help the treatment of arthritis and rheumatic problems.
3. Celery also helps the kidney an acts an anti-inflammatory and antioxidant. (It helps eliminate body’s waste through the urine)
Garlic and onion help to protect against cardiovascular disease, respiratory concerns, diabetes, and a variety of cancers. Both of them are good for cold & flu.
Benefits of garlic:
1. Lowers blood pressure
2. Decrease the risk of blood clots developing that can cause strokes and heart attacks.
3. Fights a great number of bacteria and viruses and therefore helps to prevent infections and it decreases the risks of a number of different types of cancer, with an emphasis on cancers of the stomach.
Benefits of onion:
1. Increase the HDL cholesterol in the blood, especially when they are eaten in their raw state.
2. Decrease the bad cholesterol or LDL in the blood and they increase the ability of the blood to dissolve blood clots
3. Onions are excellent at decreasing the risk inherent in developing diabetes and help to fight off the bacteria that are responsible for causing many infections in the human body.
4. Decrease the risk of many different types of cancers
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