Fertility Recipe: Vietnamese Chicken Noodle Soup

If you live in the northern hemisphere, where it's the middle of winter, a hot, nourishing bowl of soup right now will soothe and comfort your body. Here's a simple-to-make recipe from our book, The Fertile Kitchen(R) Cookbook.

Ingredients:

2 chicken breasts (12 to 16 oz)

1/4 onion, sliced

About 10 broccoli florets (6 to 8 oz)

5 oz thin rice noodles

2 cubes of vegetable broth

1 jalapeno

1/4 bunch of cilantro

Soy sauce (on the side)

1.5 quarts of water

10 leaves of fresh basil

1 lemon

Recipe:

1. Cut chicken breast into 1/2-inch cubes.
2. Cut onion into slices.
3. Cut broccoli into thumb-sized pieces.
4. Place water and vegetable broth in a pot and bring to a boil on high heat.
5. Add chicken and onion and let boil for 2 minutes.
6. Add rice noodles and cook for another 2 minutes.
7. Add broccoli and cook for another 1 minute.
8. Serve soup with soy sauce, sliced jalapeno, cilantro, basil leaves and lemon on the side.

NOTE: You can also add these ingredients directly to the soup before serving, according to taste. Add jalapeno with caution (it’s hot!).

Stay warm and be healthy.