Lovely Soup!!

I thought you might want to try this recipie.

My DSIL tried this out on Douglas and co. when we went up to Scotland, and it was so good I decided to buy the book it came from!!

Its from Jamie Olivers Ministry of Food. he says anyone can learn to cook in 24 hours, and asks eveyrone to learn one recipie from each chapter of the book and pass it on.. so here is my first one!!

ASIAN CHICKEN NOODLE BROTH (takes 17 mins to cook) and this serves 2.

1 tablespn mixed seeds.. pumpkin, poppy sunflower - whatever you like
a small handful of cashew nuts
2 Skinless chicken breasts (We just used some already cooked chicken from a roast we had in the fridge)
2 teaspoons of five spice
sea salt, black pepper
olive oil
a small lump of fresh root ginger
half or one red chilli.. depends how hot you want your soup
1 chicken stock cube, or some of the real stuff from your roast chicken
100g rice noodles
a few mange tout peas
6 thin asparagus spears, or 4 normal ones
6 baby corn (or some frozen niblets)
soy sauce
1 lime (juice it)
a few spinach leaves

Boil the kettle. Put a medium frying pan or wok on a high heat and add seeds and nuts whilst its heating up. Put a large saucepan on the heat and put a litre of boiling water in from the kettle .. put a lid on it. toss the seeds and nuts around until they are heated through nicely. Slice your chicken lengthways and put them in a bowl. Put the five-spice and some salt and pepper on them and stir. Pur the empty pan back on a high heat. Add some olive oil and put your chicken in when pan is hot and cook for 5 mins until its golden brown. toss the chicken around now and then.

Whilst the chicken is cooking, peel and grate your ginger and finely cut your chilli. Crumble the stock into the hot water, and add half your veggies chilli and ginger and noodles to the pan of water, add 2 tablespns of soy sauce. Bring pan to the boil and cook for about 2-3 mins, stirring it. Squishthe lime. When the noodles are and veg are done, check the chicken is cooked properly (slice it and have a look inside) Put the chicken in the bowls with some of the spinach, pour the broth and veg over, then scatter the seeds and nuts over the top, and any spare chilli.

Eat!

PS dead easy to do a veggie version of this.. just use a few more veg mabye, and veg stock cube!

I do hope you try this, and pass it on to some of your friends or family.