Jamaican Chicken Soup
Jamaican Chicken Soup is a delicious and hearty dish that originates from Jamaica. It's a flavorful and comforting soup made with tender chicken, traditional Caribbean spices, vegetables like carrots, potatoes, and dumplings. Jamaican Chicken Soup is known for its unique blend of flavors, combining the richness of the chicken broth with the warmth of the spices.
Ingredients
- 3 cups all purpose flour
- 1 medium Caribbean pumpkin Cut in halves. One half remove skin and cut in cubes. Other half cut in quarters with skin on
- 2 pounds chicken bone-in or boneless, cut into bite-size
- 2 cloves garlic crushed
- 6 medium carrots cut half into cubes. Cut other half into blocks.
- 2 whole corns cut into lnto halves
- 4 medium potatoes cut into halves
- 2 pods Scotch bonnet pepper 1 green, 1 ripe
- 1 sprig thyme
- 2 packs Grace® Cock Soup Mix
- 1 medium turnip check local Caribbean whole food stores. Diced
- 2 medium sweet potatoes cut into blocks
- 1 stalk scallion
- 4 whole allspice
- 1 cho cho (chayote squash), peel and cut into cubes.
- 1 stalk celery cut into half
Instructions
Prepare vegetables:
- Wash and prepare vegetables. Separate cut turnips.
Prepare dumplings:
- To make the dumplings: combine together flour 1/2 cup water, pouring slowly, mixing and kneading until flour has a doughy consistency. If sticky, add more flour until doughy.
- Pull up a small chunk of flour about 1/4 handful and make in a ball. Knead dough inwards with fingers then indent the middle so that it looks like a doughnutSet aside.
Start stock pot:
- Add gallon of water to a large stock pot and bring to a boil.
- Add turnips and chicken. Cook for about 30 minutes or until chicken is tender. Add dumplings to pot and cook for 10 minutes.
- Add yam, corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes, cho cho (hayote squash) and blocks of pumpkin quarters with skin on. Cook for 10 minutes.
- Add chopped pumpkin, chopped carrots, carrot blocks and cook for another 10 minutes.
- Removed blocks of pumpkin with the skin on. Use a spoon and scoop out the pumpkin pulp and add back to pot.
- Add Grace® Cock Soup Mix (2 packs), garlic, allspice, Scotch bonnet pepper, thyme, celery and scallion. Reduce heat and simmer for 10 minutes or until vegetables are cooked.
- Serve hot. Enjoy!
When scotch bonnet pepper is added take care not to rupture since it is very hot.
Disclaimer
Some parts of recipe maybe AI-generated.
Nutrition
Calories: 1017kcal (51%)Carbohydrates: 135g (45%)Protein: 46g (92%)Fat: 34g (52%)Saturated Fat: 10g (63%)Polyunsaturated Fat: 6gMonounsaturated Fat: 11gTrans Fat: 0.1gCholesterol: 169mg (56%)Sodium: 248mg (11%)Potassium: 3087mg (88%)Fiber: 16g (67%)Sugar: 18g (20%)Vitamin A: 27404IU (548%)Vitamin C: 95mg (115%)Calcium: 225mg (23%)Iron: 9mg (50%)
Disclaimer
Nutritional information for this recipe is an approximation and is not to be construed as medical advice.
