Chicken and veggies soup

Serves: 4

Prep time: 20 mins

Cook time: 25 mins

Ingredients

1 medium yellow onion 2 celery stalks 2 medium carrots 2 small potatoes 1 medium capsicum 1/3 of a whole savoy cabbage 2 zucchinis 2 cups shredded roast chicken or 300g raw chicken	1 cup short-cut angel hair pasta 2 tbsps olive oil 1 sachet of chicken & mushroom instant soup mix Vegetta or other stock powder to taste 1 tsp Chilli Bean Sauce (optional - include if you like your food hot) or tomato paste 2 litres of water
	Angel hair pasta This pasta is about 2 centimetres long and quite thin.
Chilli Bean Sauce This is a spicy and salty paste that gives the food a tasty flavour. However, if your children hate spicy foods then replace this sauce with tomato paste. This sauce is available in most Asian grocery stores.
	Chicken and mushroom soup mix This is an instant soup mix. You can use any other instant soup mix brand of the same favour.

Directions

1. Finely dice the onion and pour it and the olive oil into a large pot. Fry the onion on low heat until translucent.

2. Meanwhile, chop the potatoes, capsicum, carrots and celery into small pieces and set aside.

3. Finely shred the cabbage.

4. Peel the zucchini and chop them into small pieces.

5. Shred the roast chicken. You can buy a roast chicken from the supermarket and use a part of it for this soup. Alternatively, you could buy 300g of raw chicken.

7. Add the potatoes, capsicum, carrots and celery to the onion (once translucent), and fry for 1 minute.

8. Add the water, soup mix, stock powder, tomato paste or chilli bean sauce, and chicken to the pot, and bring it to a boil before turning it down to low heat to simmer for five minutes.

9. Add the pasta, zucchini and cabbage to the pot, and allow it to simmer for a further 7-10 minutes or until the pasta is soft.

10. Remove from heat and serve in four bowls with crusty bread.

Enjoy!

If you want to include more veggies in your child's diet but experience resistance from them, then check out my book, My Kids Love Veggies, on how to achieve this change.