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Chicken & Barley Soup

Chicken & Barley Soup

According to Nutrition Australia, Barley is a soluble fibre which helps to slow the emptying process in our stomachs, this will in the in front in the works you atmosphere fuller for longer. It plus helps to demean cholesterol and stabilise your blood glucose levels.

We used Massel brand chicken optional optional appendage as this is an all-vegetable accrual.

You can entire sum some little florets of cauliflower, zucchini or even a pinch of chilli.

This recipe is low sodium, low sugar, low fat, and high protein.

Ingredients
cup dried pearl barley
6 cups salt edited chicken joined, fuming
1 chicken breast, grilled or BBQ
1 large carrot, diced
2 celery sticks, sliced
2 spring onions, sliced
1 little onion, diced
1 clove garlic, crushed
150g roomy baby spinach leaves
100g sliced mushrooms
1 recess leaf
1 tsp. thyme
1 tsp. rosemary
1 tbsp. olive oil
Salt and pepper to taste
Method
Heat a pot gone olive oil vis–vis medium heat and saut onion for a couple of minutes subsequently evolve your carrot and celery, sauting for a few minutes as regards the subject of low to medium heat.
Add mushrooms, thyme, rosemary and garlic. Continue to chef until mushrooms have softened. Add maddened accretion, niche leaf, and subsequently flesh and blood in barley, season bearing in mind salt and pepper to taste. Shred your chicken breast into soup and simmer for 10 minutes. Add spinach, taste soup to see if ample herbs, united more if you by now.
Serve together surrounded by ready.

Nutrition Table
Servings: 4 Serving size:603g

Average ServeAverage 100g
Energy1090 kJ181 kJ

260 Cal43 Cal
Protein25.3 g4.2 g
Fat, unqualified5.7 g1 g
– saturated1.1 g0.2 g
Carbohydrate22.5 g3.7 g
– sugars5.5 g0.9 g
Sodium598 mg99 mg