Tumeric chicken soup is an amazing cold and flu busting bowl of comfort food. Once you taste it, you will fall in love with this delicious gluten free chicken soup!
When you see the ingredients in this clean eating turmeric chicken soup recipe, you are going to think I am crazy. This turmeric soup for colds is always on hand during the winter!
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Make this easy soup recipe and check out all of my homemade chicken soup recipes to take you through the cold and flu season. If you are suffering from a cold or the flu, you will also want to try my grandmother's homemade chicken soup recipe! It is Jewish penicillin for the soul.
How to use turmeric in recipes:
I love using turmeric in my recipes. This cold-busting chicken soup recipe is full of nutrients and is a natural anti-inflammatory. Turmeric will stain your fingers, clothes, etc.
I found that out when I made these turmeric chicken wings. They stained my baking sheet bright yellow!
Lately, with all of the sports injuries the guys in our family have had lately, we could really use any help we can get. My son is growing so fast, his ligaments aren't keeping up with his bone growth and he is pulling a lot of muscles. His Achilles, IT band, elbows, and knees.
Since both of my kids love homemade chicken soup, I thought using turmeric would be a perfect solution to get some natural inflammatory ingredients into them.
Cooking with turmeric is easy. You will also love this easy Turmeric Curry Lime Cauliflower.
Ingredient notes:
- Low sodium chicken broth - feel free to use regular if you don't like low sodium. You can also use chicken bone broth.
- Chicken breasts - you can use chicken breasts if you are in a hurry, feel free to use bone-in chicken if you would like some of the nutrients as bone broth.
- Turmeric - any brand is fine. I tend to use organic turmeric because it is less likely to be contaminated with lead.
Fun swaps:
Add some greens to make this soup even healthier. Kale and spinach are great additions to this soup. You can also add diced pieces of winter squash or sweet potato.
🧂 Seasoning notes:
The first thing you will notice is the almost "neon" yellow color of this gluten free chicken soup. My son almost wouldn't eat it because of this. After a few minutes, I finally did convince him to give it a try. After two bowls, he declared this recipe a success:-).
If you love chicken as much as we do, you will want to check out all of my delicious Gluten Free Chicken Recipes! I hope you can enjoy this soup for the fun of it, and not because your family is sick!!
Tips and Recipe FAQ:
If you can't eat nightshades or if you are trying to make this soup lower-calorie, you can easily omit the potatoes.
I love to make a big pot full of turmeric chicken soup during cold and flu season. This homemade turmeric soup freezes well too, so be prepared this winter!
This soup will keep up to 4 days in an air-tight container, or up to 4 months in the freezer.
Serve with:
- Gluten Free Fontina Cheese Herb Scones
- Easy Gluten Free Dinner Rolls
- Gluten Free Cheddar Herb Muffins
Tools:
- A big soup pot. Go ahead and make big vats of soup so that I can freeze some for other meals.
- Easy chicken shredder. I used to use two forks, but these make shredding meat so much faster and easier!
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📖 Recipe
Turmeric Chicken Soup {cold and flu busting soup}
Ingredients
- 6 cups water
- 32 ounces low sodium chicken broth
- 2 large chicken breasts raw
- 1 tablespoon turmeric
- 2 teaspoons cumin
- 2 teaspoons salt I added more later so you may want to taste and add salt as needed
- 1 cup peas (frozen or fresh, not canned)
- 1 large onion diced
- 4 parsnips chopped
- 2 large potatoes diced
- 1-2 zucchini diced
- 1 ½ tablespoons olive oil
- cilantro for garnish
Instructions
- In a large soup pot, heat olive oil on medium heat.
- Add onion and cook 3 minutes.
- Add other vegetables and cook 5 minutes until they soften.
- Add raw chicken breasts, water, broth, and spices.
- Cover and bring to a boil.
- Once boiling, reduce heat to medium low and cook until the chicken breasts are done.
- Remove the chicken and with two forks, shred the chicken.
- Return the chicken shreds to the pot and simmer for 10 minutes so the flavors soak into the chicken.
- Garnish with cilantro.
Nutrition
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Judy
What a wonderful easy flavorful recipe. I made some for my neighbor who has been fighting a cold for three days I am sure she will enjoy this. Thank you
Sandi Gaertner
That is so nice of you to make this for your neighbor. I hope they are feeling better!
Erin
Hello. Is there a reason why you don’t include garlic in this recipe?
Sandi Gaertner
I didn't think this recipe needed it, but please do try adding some and let me know what you think :-).
Katerina
It is soup time and this makes me so happy! I love everything about this soup!
Sandi Gaertner
Thank you Katerina 🙂
Jen V.
I have been trying to add more turmeric to my diet ever since I read an article about how it can be as effective as ibuprofen when it comes to its anti-inflammatory properties. I messed up my back in an accident a few years ago and am trying to add more turmeric to my diet so I can cut back on my daily pain medicine. So I am going to have to try your soup. Thanks for sharing!
Sandi Gaertner
I didn't know it could be as effective Jen, thank you for mentioning that. I hope your back feels better, that must be really hard.