Nayanah's Easy to Make Chicken Soup

There is nothing more comforting or warming than a delicious bowl of homemade chicken soup. It's also a well known fact that if you're feeling a bit under the weather, this wonder-soup has a whole host of medicinal properties.

Anyway, the following recipe is easy peasy and produces a delicious and healthy bowl of soup. Thanks to the gorgeous Nayanah Siva for introducing this to me!

Serves 4-6

Ingredients:

5 large carrots
2 leeks
3-4 sticks celery
1 clove garlic
2 bags Heston Blumenthal chicken stock
Couple of glasses of white wine
1 sachet Telma Kneidl Matzo Ball Mix
Good sprinkling of dried thyme and dill
salt and pepper for seasoning
One large, freerange egg

Recipe:

Chop up the veg into small pieces and crush the garlic. Heat up one tblsp olive oil and mix with a knob of butter in a large saucepan.

Sweat down the vegetables and garlic for around ten mins (add a bit of salt to stop them from burning)

Once the veg are getting nice and soft, add your thyme and dill and if you happen to have any bits of chicken left over from a roast, chuck them in too. Let them combine for a couple of minutes.

Then pour your stock in the pan along with your white wine and some water.

Shove a lid on the pan and let it simmer away for half an hour or so.

In the meantime, mix one sachet of Matzo Ball Mix with a large freerange egg. Stir it together and then leave it for five minutes until it hardens a bit.

Separate your mix into 12-14 small balls.

Add the balls to your soup and leave them simmering for 7 minutes.

Add pepper and salt to taste and serve with some crusty bread.

Voila...delicious chicken soup in just over half an hour!!