You have to make this soup when you’re even too sick for chicken soup
No, your doctor won’t prescribe chicken soup and send you to the pharmacy with a prescription, because medicine is medicine and food is food. And when you have the flu, nothing helps except resting and letting yourself recover. But research has been done into the health benefits of chicken soup when you have a cold, and although it has no proven medicinal effect per se, the hot broth can relieve a blocked nose and the protein is good for the energy you need. But what if you don’t feel like cooking a whole raw chicken and making soup from it with your flu brain? (Also: it takes ages!) Then do this:
In China, they’ve known this for ages: cracking an egg over the soup and letting it marble beautifully through it is a delicious way to add some extra nutrients to a fragrant broth or soup. In English, it’s called egg drop soup, named after the egg that you carefully crack into the soup, let plop in, and then stir through it.
Sick people don’t want to cook
It saves time and hassle, because we imagine you have other things on your mind than pulling apart a cooked chicken while snot is running from your head, which already feels as though it could explode at any moment. So if you have some delicious broth you made and saved when you weren’t sick, heat it in a saucepan; otherwise, of course, simply open a jar of good store-bought broth muy tranquilo. Add some leftover vegetables for the vitamins, stir in a spoonful of Sriracha, grate some more ginger over it with your Microplane, and you’ll see that things can start flowing nicely through your sinuses again! Get well soon!
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