Easy chicken noodle soup

Serves:

4

Ingredients

• 4 cups (1L) stock
• 4 cups (1L) water
• 2 leeks (white part only), finely sliced
• 2 large garlic cloves, peeled and bruised
• 2 tsp freshly grated ginger
• 2 bay leaves
• 2 cloves
• 400g skinless chicken breast, finely sliced
• 150g wholegrain pasta/noodles, broken into pieces
• 50g spinach leaves, sliced

Method

Add stock, water, leeks, garlic, ginger, bay leaves and cloves to a medium saucepan and bring to the boil.

Reduce heat and simmer for 10 minutes.

Add chicken and noodles, bring back up to a simmer and cook for 8 minutes until noodles are soft and cooked through.

Add spinach leaves 2 minutes before the end to soften in the soup.

Discard bay leaves, cloves and garlic cloves and serve.

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Serving Suggestions

Note

• If you don’t have two leeks, use a combination of leeks, spring onions and/or onions.
• Bruising the garlic gives off a mild garlicky flavour as opposed to strong garlic knockouts that would keep the most serious of vampires away. To bruise a clove, just press down firmly with the flat part of a knife to squish it. Don’t worry if it breaks apart, you can scoop out the bits regardless.
• This recipe was created by Jay Rogers for Kidspot, New Zealand’s best recipe finder. You can follow Jay at The Moodie Foodie and on Facebook, Twitter or Pinterest.