Did you grow up eating Chicken Soup when you got sick? I did too…but as an adult and an Herbalist, I have created a healthier soup, filled with Immune Boosting Herbs and Mushrooms and I want everyone to know about the benefits of this soup!
Important Medicinal Components of the Ingredients (also note they have many more properties, I’m just listing the reasons they are in this soup):
* Shiitake Mushrooms – Immune boosting, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, rich in vitamins and minerals
* Celery – Reduces inflammation, antioxidant, boosts immunity, hydrating
* Carrots – Contains vitamin C and other antioxidants for the immune system, helps fight infections
* Onions – Contains allicin, which is antibacterial and helps the body fight infections also contains vitamin c and is an antioxidant
* Garlic – Nature’s antibiotic, antimicrobial, antiviral, helps fight off colds and flu and boosts the immune system
* Barley – Trace minerals, has antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties
* Chicken Bone Broth – Helps rebuild and repair cartilage, minerals and electrolytes
* Dashi Kombu Seaweed – rich in iodine and minerals, antioxidant, also blood regulating and thyroid health supportive
* Astragalus – Immune boosting powerhouse! Protects respiratory system and helps fight colds, antioxidants helps reduce stress and fatigue on the body systems
* Reishi Mushroom – Immune boosting, promotes overall health, reduces fatigue, antioxidant, powerful blood sugar regulator.
****DISCLAIMER – I AM NOT A MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL, I AM A HOLISTIC COMMUNITY HERBALIST AND AM SHARING THE TRADITIONAL USES OF PLANTS. ALWAYS DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH TO CHECK FOR COMPATABILITY IF YOU ARE TAKING A PHARMACEUTICAL MEDICATION. NO CLAIMS FOR CURES ARE BEING MADE!*****
Watch step by step as I prep all of the ingredients…and yes, I am going to give you the full recipe too! First, a few links:
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Ok…now for the Recipe:
IMMUNE BOOSTING CHICKEN AND MUSHROOM SOUP
* soak dried shiitake in warm water for 30 minutes
* Chop Carrots, Celery and Onion. Saute in avocado oil or butter
* Chop 4 cloves of garlic and sauté
* Add drained and chopped mushrooms, carrots, barley, cooked chicken and bone broth. Add more water if needed
* Add medicinal herbs – Dashi Kombu Seaweed, Astragalus and Reishi Mushroom
* Simmer for 1-hour, then remove the medicinal herbs.
* Serve warm and enjoy!
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Welcome. Today we’re going to make an immune boosting chicken and mushroom and vegetable soup. So stay [Music] tuned. If you’re like me, you probably grew up eating chicken noodle soup when you got sick. Well, I still like to make a chickenbased soup, but I like to add a bunch of medicinal herbs and mushrooms to a soup. And so, I’m going to show you how to do that. So, we’re going to start by rehydrating some of the dried mushrooms. And I’m going to tell you about the components of them later in this video. I want this to be a good hearty soup. So, I’m doing celery, carrots, and onions. And I’ve put on the bottom here some of the medicinal properties of all of these vegetables. But we’re just going to kind of roughly chop them up. And then I’m going to set them aside and I’m going to assemble all the components of the soup. Now, one of the things I want to mention to you is cooking is a great way to get um medicinal components into your body, into your family’s bodies. And this soup is no exception to that. Everything that I’m putting in has an intention, an intention for health, for immune boosting. And I’m making this because my husband’s been feeling sick and then I started getting sick. And this is the perfect soup to help boost your immune system. Get it to jumpstart into action. And you need food, so you may as well eat something hearty. And it’s nourishing and hydrating. So it’s the perfect reason to make this soup. So you just want to take a nice heavy stock pot. But I am going to add a little bit of avocado oil. You can add butter. You could add water. I like avocado oil. But I’m just going to start cooking the base of the vegetables. And that’s the celery and the onions. And get those sort of getting translucent. Quick shout out. You might want to check out my website www.enchantedbotanicalaz.com if you want to learn more about becoming an herbalist. I do give a monthly uh membership option to learn my classes and it’s a great opportunity if you want to be an herbalist and learn things like this for your own family and your own household. Okay, I forgot to chop up the garlic ahead of time. So, I’m chopping up the garlic because that needs to go in here. Garlic is an important component not only to the flavor of this soup, but to the medicinal value of this soup. And as you see below, garlic is a really immune boosting, infectionfighting herb, and we definitely want to have it in this soup. Plus, it makes it absolutely delicious. Now, for the mushrooms that we went ahead and rehydrated earlier, I’m going to grab them and drain them. Just squeeze out that old juice. Don’t really want it. It’s kind of a weird smell with the shiakeis, but as you see, they are just packed with immune boosting properties. And I’m just going to do a rough chop of them. Um, shiakei mushrooms add a real meatiness to anything you put in there. And people love the texture or they don’t love the texture. If you don’t love the texture of the mushroom, you can chop it super fine or you can even just mince it and then you won’t even notice it. It’ll just sort of go away with the flavor. Once these are roughly chopped, they are going into the soup. Okay, everything has sauteed down nicely, so it is time to start adding the other vegetables. And if you want to add more vegetables to your soup, you absolutely can. I just kept this one very simple, but I’m just layering everything in now. So, first we’re going in with the uh rehydrated shiakei mushrooms. Next, we’re going in with carrot. And I didn’t add a lot of carrot because my husband tries to minimize the amount of carrots he eats. I’m doing barley instead of pasta because again, this soup was made primarily for my husband and he watches his blood sugar. So barley is a better option for him than regular sugar. I have some leftover rotisserie chicken that I put in. And then I am adding organic chicken bone broth. I get this from Costco. I really like this product because of all of the benefits that bone broth has. Okay, now for the important parts. This is the real kicker for the immune boosting stuff. And as an herbalist, this is the type of thing you would learn if you take my classes. But here we go. Dashi kamboo seaweed. This is the first component. I put this in every single immuneoosting soup, stew remedy that I make. Um the second thing I’m going to add in is estragalus. Estragalus is an amazing immune boosting herb. And um the third thing we’re going to add is rishi mushroom. Now these three together won’t break down in the soup itself, but it’s like making a decoction. They are going to boil and simmer in here for about an hour and they are going to put all of their medicinal benefits into the soup. And then once it’s done simmering for an hour, we are going to remove them. Okay. So, why do we remove them? Why are they inedible? Well, they never fully break down. They are extremely fibrous and they don’t get soft enough to become palatable. But the cool thing about herbal medicine, um, and I teach about this in my classes online, when you make a decoction, you’re the heat is extracting the medicinal components from those woody stemmed or less, things like that. and it extracts all the medicinal value and it you can take the plant base out of whatever you’re doing and then you are left with a broth, a heavy decoction that is rich in nutrients and medicinal properties. So, I’m just wanting to dig through, pull out the woody pieces of the estraas, pull out the woody pieces of the rayi, and that giant piece of dashi kamboo seaweed. It left all its good iodine and trace minerals in the soup, but we can’t really eat those parts. So, once they’re out, the soup is ready to serve. Okay, so you want to serve up the soup. Now, I made enough that fortunately when I got sick, like 2 days after my husband got sick, there was enough for me to have as well. Really want to kickstart the healing process when you get a head cold. Okay. Also, I make homemade sourdough. So, I’m going to slice one of these up. If you want to learn how to make sourdough, check in my description below. I’ll put a link to my other video on how to make homemade sourdough, but it is so gut healthy. It’s wonderful to have. So, unfortunately, I got sick about 3 days after my husband got sick, but I had a little of the soup left over. So, I am going to enjoy it. And I want to share the recipe with you. I’m going to put it up on screen right here and I’ll go ahead and I’ll put it down in the description below as well so that you can save it. But this is just really a soup that will kickstart your immunity and get your body responding better if you’re getting sick. And I highly recommend making it and it’s really hydrating as well. If you’ve liked this video, please don’t forget to give it the thumbs up, like, subscribe, share it, and of course, if you want to learn all about herbal medicine, please visit my website. Um, there’ll be information in the description down below. I teach classes every single month, and it’s for one low fee. Thanks for watching, and I hope you have a great day. Take care. [Music]