Recipe for Chicken Avocado Lime Soup
Light and tangy broth at full flavor with shred chicken, avocado, jalapeno and a variety of vegetable and herb to combine into the best comfort soup whether it's hot or cold.
Servings 4
Ingredients
- 1/2 lb skinless chick breasts w/ rib meat
- 1 qt sodium chicken broth
- 1 medium avocado
- 1 jalapeno
- 2 cloves garlic
- a handful of cilantro sprig
- 1 lime
- 2 stem green onion
- 1/2 white onion
- 1/2 tsp ground cumin
- 1 to mato
- 2 Tbsp avocado or olive oil
Instructions
- Dice onion, cut and separate green and white parts of scallion.
- Cut, pitted, remove seed/skin of avocado then dice it.
- Slice Jalapeno, remove seeds if needed.
- Mince cilantro, and dice tomato too.
- Place stock pot over high heat, when hot, add 2 Tbsp oil.
- Wait for 1-2 minutes till oil is hot, then stir in crushed garlic, white scallion parts and diced onion.
- Saute and keep stirring until tender and start giving off aroma.
- Add chicken, stir a bit to brown the outer surface then add tomato, jalapeno and cumin.
- Add chicken broth and bring to boil, then reduce heat to simmer for 30-45 minutes,
- Prepare a cold water bath. Squeeze out all the lime juice into the simmering pot then throw the lime skin into cold water bath.
- Remove the chicken from pot and submerge immediately into cold bath for 5 minutes.
- When cool, shred the chicken with a fork and add back to the simmering pot.
- Season the soup if need, add avocado chunk.
- Sprinkle with some ground pepper and cilantro.
- Remove from heat and serve with extra lime wedge on top.