Restorative Soup

Total Time: 2 hrs 50 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 2 hrs 20 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 1 (5 -6 lb) whole chickens
• 3 large onions, cut in chunks
• 1 large sweet potato, peeled, cut in chunks
• 3 parsnips, peeled, cut in chunks
• 2 turnips, peeled, cut in chunks
• 11 -12 large carrots, peeled, cut in chunks
• 5 -6 stalks celery, stems cut in chunks
• salt
• black pepper
• 2 tablespoons parsley

Recipe

• 1 clean the chicken. put in a large stockpot with enough water to cover. bring to boil. add onions, sweet potato, parsnips, turnips, and carrots. reduce to simmer. cook for 1 1/2 hours. keep removing the "foam fat" from the surface as it accumulates.
• 2 add parsley and celery. cook another 45 minutes.
• 3 remove chicken from pot and save for another recipe. (the chicken is not used further for the soup.) keep the chicken broth in the pot.
• 4 put all the vegetables in a food processor. process them until they can pass through a strainer, then return them to the chicken broth. season with salt and pepper.