Nov 12, 2009

Kitchen Remedies; A Winter Series: Corn, Greens & Chorizo Stoup


Kitchen Remedies: Healing Soups for winter and this nasty flu season. Nourish your body with great warming "feel good soups" - easy to make and especially good for overcoming a cold, the flu, reducing fatigue, fever, congestion, immune boosting, and restoring health after an illness.



Corn, Greens & Chorizo Stoup

Soup + Stew = Stoup…..

Ingredients:
One tablespoon olive oil
1 cup large chunk sliced chorizo sausage
3 cloves of fresh garlic minced
1 large yellow or white onion chopped
1 cup corn kernels
6 cups cut and cleaned mustard greens
Two boxes of no salt added Chicken stock
1 whole chicken breast sliced thin and tossed with the juice of one lime
Fresh cilantro to top the stoup before serving

Instructions:
In a large heavy bottom soup pot brown the chorizo very well ; turn down heat and add garlic and onion and cook until they are soft. Add greens and cook until they are wilted. Add corn and sauté mixture for 15 minutes on low to medium heat. Add stock and sliced chicken, bring to a simmer and cover; cooking for 45 minutes.

When done taste for salt and spice. It if it is not hot enough, add a sliced raw jalapeno.

Top each serving off with some fresh cilantro when served
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