Chicken Liver Soup - Two Tasty Recipes

Chicken livers are good for you. They are rich in vitamins A, B, B12, C, D, E, and K, and also in minerals such as copper, zinc, selenium, and phosphorus. A soup recipe usually uses the thighs, breast, or carcass of the bird but why not make a different kind of broth just for a change? This nutritious dish can be prepared in different ways and is tasty as well as nutritious.

If you are preparing a whole bird for another recipe, save the offal and use it in a flavorful soup recipe. Not everyone likes this kind of meat but if you do, you will enjoy these recipes because the flavors are nice and well balanced and you know they are nutritious too.

Healthy Chicken Liver Soup with Pasta and Vegetables

You can add more water to make the broth thinner if you like. The amount of water you use is up to you. Some people prefer this dish to be very thin and others like it a bit thicker. You can adjust the seasonings at the end. This recipe is good served with warm French bread or any kind of bread you happen to like. The bread is optional because the dish contains pasta to make it satisfying.

What you will need:

1 lb chicken livers
1 onion
1 green bell pepper
1 teaspoon ground red pepper
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
3 1/2 oz fresh parsley
7 oz tomato sauce
5 1/2 oz pasta
Salt, as neededHow to make it:

Boil the meat in a pot of water for twenty minutes. Finely chop the green bell pepper, onion, and parsley. Chop the livers and put them in another pot of water. Add the onion, green bell pepper, and tomato sauce. Cook for ten minutes, and then add salt and red pepper to taste. Add the pasta and cook until it is soft. Serve the broth with the fresh parsley sprinkled on top.

Creamy Chicken Liver Soup with Eggs and Spinach Puree

This recipe makes six servings and it is rich and creamy. If you are looking for a satisfying and healthy recipe, this one is filling and tasty, even though it is a soup recipe. Serve this to your family with some crusty bread and they will love its creamy texture and interesting flavors.

What you will need:

6 chicken livers
3 hard boiled eggs
1 pint chicken broth
1 cup spinach puree
3 tablespoons all purpose flour
5 tablespoons butter
1 onion
1 cup light cream
1 tablespoon tarragon
Salt, black pepper and celery salt, to taste
Chopped parsley, to garnishHow to make it:

Chop the eggs and onion. Fry the chicken livers in two tablespoons of the butter, then chop them and combine them with the eggs and onion. Melt the remaining butter and stir it with the flour. Add this to the spinach puree and chicken liver mixture in a soup pot. Add the cream and broth and season the soup with salt, pepper, tarragon and celery salt. Warm it through and serve with chopped fresh parsley on top.

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Old Fashion Vegetable Barley Soup

This old time soup recipe reminds me of my childhood. I grew up in rural Southern Indiana where my family operated an old-fashion general store. We sold everything from kerosene and gas to fresh sliced luncheon meats and cheeses. The center of this huge old building held a big old pot-bellied coal stove to provide heat. Vegetable Barley Soup reminds me of the soups, beans, pot roasts, etc that my mom would cook on top of this old stove. She had slow cooking down to a science long before crockpots were ever invented. Give this healthy, old-fashion soup a try. Maybe it will become a favorite of yours or bring back memories for you, too.

BARLEY VEGETABLE SOUP

This old-fashioned recipe is also a healthy one. Give it a try for an old-fashioned healthy, tasty meal. Just add a crusty whole-grain bread or muffin and you have a healthy meal!

In a stock pot, heat 2 tbsp oil and saute 2 medium chopped onions until transparent. Add: 2 cloves garlic, pressed or minced and 1/3 cup barley. Saute a for a few minutes.

Add to the stock pot: 1 cup diced carrots, 1 cup diced celery, 3 cups sliced mushrooms, 1 potato, scrubbed clean and diced with peeling left on, 8 cups water or beef or chicken stock--your preference, 1/2 tsp dried basil, 1/4 tsp dried thyme, 3 tbsp soy sauce, and 3/4 tsp seasoned salt. Bring mixture to a boil, reduce heat and simmer for 45 minutes.

Add to soup: 2 small zucchini, cut in half lengthwise then cut into slices. Continue to cook until zucchini is tender. Season with salt, if desired, pepper, and cayenne pepper to suit your taste. After dishing soup into serving bowl, garnish with a dollop of sour cream, if desired.

Yield: 8 servings

Enjoy!

French Canadian Pea Soup

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Know About Cabbage Soup Diet Recipe

Everyone wants to stay in shape and live a long and healthy life. Truth is that it takes a lot of commitment to achieve this. Eating well, exercises, etc.

Whatever your aim is, weight loss, staying fit, de-toxing, etc, as long as eating well is involved; we implore you to try this cabbage soup diet recipe. It is not only wholesome but is guaranteed to assist in flushing out your accumulated body toxins as well tickle your taste buds in the process.

Ingredients needed:

• Half a head of cabbage
• 3 fresh carrots
• A bunch of celery
• 2 cans of tomatoes
• 2 large green peppers
• 6 large green onions
• A packet of mushrooms
• A packet of Lipton soup mix
• Seasoning - a pinch of pepper, salt, parsley, garlic powder

Optional Ingredients:

• 2 cubes of bouillon
• A can of vegetable juice

Cooking Directions:

• Put the sliced green onions in a pot; use any cooking spray of choice to cook it quickly.
• Take out the seeds from the green pepper, chop into small chunks and then add to pot.
• Remove the outer layer of the cabbage, chop finely and add to pot
• Add the cleaned and cube-chopped size carrots to the pot.
• Slice the mushrooms into thick sizes and add to pot.
• Add the seasonings now as required except the salt and pepper. Save this for later.
• Pour in about 12 cups of water and vegetable juice if required.
• Cover the pot and cook on low heat for about 2 hours or so.
• Add salt and pepper to taste and it is ready to serve!

This cabbage soup diet recipe is very effective in achieving rapid weight loss so, except that is your aim; this is not a diet for everyday.

Red Bean Soup

No, this is not another one of those canned bean soups. You know what I'm talking about - the ever so famous "Tex-mex" soup with three kinds of beans. And the red beans I am talking about are not the kind of beans you pack on a camping trip either - the kind that gives you...gas. No no no my friend! The red bean soup I am talking about is of a whole different sort. It's sweet, warm, and (as if it couldn't get any more strange) served as a dessert!

Did I just say dessert AND red bean soup?!? You bet I did! Ok, before you go outside and yell, "Has the writer of I Heart Asian Food gone crazy?" let me explain to you what exactly is red bean soup.

Red bean soup is a traditional Chinese soup that is served warm as a dessert after dinner. It's made by boiling red azuki beans and sugar until soft and mushy. These beans give the soup a deep red color, which makes sense since the color red signifies happiness and luck to the Chinese.

It's sugary sweet, deep deep red, warm, has mushy tender red beans, and is the perfect satisfying dessert!

When I was a kid, I use think, Ummm...I'm not so sure, when I saw red bean soup. That's because it looked so unappetizing. Don't get me wrong - it still looks like brownish red water with bean mush. But I've learned better. As I grew older, I became more tolerant to try new foods, and I discovered how good red bean soup really is. I now see it as my guilt free dessert. I don't know how many calories are in it exactly, but the fact that it's a soup helps me to believe that no matter how many bowls I drink (like 2 or 3!), I still won't gain as much weight as if I ate a slice of dark chocolate cake.

Definitly try red bean soup whenever you go to your favorite Chinese restaurant. I'm sure you will find it to be just as satisfying (or even more than) ordering that regular old vanilla ice cream!

Enjoy!

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