EASY BONE BROTH SOUP RECIPE

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Bone broth for health?

Bone broth has proven to be extremely healing for our digestive tract.  It is high in collagen, gelatin, glycine, proline and glutamine- vital nutrients provide the sustenance for the growth and reconstruction of your intestinal wall.

I wanted to include an easy bone broth recipe that was extremely helpful to me while I was healing from my autoimmune thyroid disease (Part 1: What is Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis?).  I hope it helps you as much as it has helped me in the past year.

This bone broth recipe comes from AUTOIMMUNE THE CAUSE AND THE CURE by Annesse Brockley and Kristin Urdiales.

Reading this book was instrumental in helping me understand how and why I needed to change my diet to include fermented foods (like kefir!) to help strengthen my gut and immune system. 

If you are interested, you can read more about my diet change in Part 7: Healing My Leaky Gut Stopped Hashimoto’s. 

I go more in depth about the benefits of bone broth, kefir, and several other foods that can influence your gut health in My 5 Favorite Gut Boosting Foods.  It was pivotal for me to learn the importance of these special foods in rebuilding your gut with good bacteria.  

Using your diet to strengthen your immune system makes a lot of sense when you think about it. Especially when 80% of your immune system resides in your gut. 

You can read more about your immune system and gut connection in Part 6: The Leaky Gut Connection to Hashimoto’s.

It can be overwhelming to digest all the information out there for our health and find an easy way to implement it in our busy lives.  

That is why I wanted to share this bone broth soup recipe here for you.

I also want to add that when I am too busy to make my bone broth or even tired of drinking it (it happens occasionally!) that I have stumbled onto an easy way to get the same benefits without all the work.

In the mornings, I will take Ancestral Supplements Grass Fed Bone Marrow — Whole Bone Extract to ensure I get the necessary nutrients for my gut without the added work.  It took me a while to fine this was an option so I hope I can provide this easy shortcut for you if needed.

EASY CHICKEN AND RICE BONE BROTH SOUP

• 1 whole chicken
• 2 celery ribs
• 2 large carrots
• 2 cups cooked rice
• 1 quartered onion
• 1 bay leaf

Wash the chicken and place it in a large stock pot.  Cover it with water. Chop carrots and celery in to large chunks, quarter the onion, and add to stock pot.  

Season with salt, pepper and a bay leaf.  Simmer for 2 hours or until chicken is tender.

Remove carrots, celery, onion.  Chop the carrots, celery, and onion into smaller chunks and add back to the soup.  

Remove the chicken and shred or dice the meat and add back to the soup.  Add 2 cups of brown rice. That’s it!

Notes:  

1. Over time,  I have found I prefer to chop the carrots, celery, and onion into smaller pieces in the beginning so I don’t need to pull them back out later and chop when I pull out the chicken to shred it.

2. I also like a bit of a richer flavor to the bone broth (soup) so I will add in some chicken base to taste.

3. This is an incredibly easy soup to freeze for later!

Happy healing.  And if you have a good bone broth recipe- I would love to hear about it!