Diabetic Chicken Soup Recipe

This diabetic chicken soup recipe is a great way to sneak in your kids vegetables. For some reason they are more apt to eating vegetables in a yummy broth soup. Chicken soup taste so good when it is cold outside and it taste so good when you are sick. Any way it is a real dinner treat.

Chicken Soup Recipe

9 cup Water

3 Celery stalks with leaves

1 small Onion

1/2 cup Chopped onion

1/2 cup Finely chopped carrot

1/2 cup Chopped fresh parsley

1/2 cup Uncooked barley

2 tbsp Lemon juice

1 tbsp Salt

1/2 tsp Pepper, freshly ground

1/4 tsp Celery seed

1 1/2 cup Green beans cut, fresh Recipe Instructions: 1. Place chicken, water, leaves from celery and small onion in a large saucepan. (Reserve celery stalks.)

2. Cover saucepan and bring to a boil; reduce heat and simmer 1 1/2 hours until chicken is tender. Remove chicken. Strain broth into bowl; chill until fat sets on top. Remove fat.

3. Remove skin and bones from chicken, discard. Cut chicken into bite-sized pieces, set aside. (My note: if you want less than 8 servings, freeze extra broth and chicken separately in meal-sized portions.)

4. Return broth to saucepan. Chop reserved celery stalks, add to broth with chopped onion, carrot, parsley, barley, lemon juice,seasonings. Cover and simmer 20 min.

5. Add fresh green beans and chicken; continue cooking 15 min or until beans are tender.

Each serving 1 1/2 cup.

11 g carbohydrate, 14 g protein 5 g fat, 145 calories 2 Protein Choices, 1 fruit & veg. choice

Source: Choice Cooking c. 1986 Canadian Diabetes Association Shared by Elizabeth Rodier, tested Sept 93 with substitutions. From the files of Al Rice, North PoleAlaska, Feb 1994 Servings: 8

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