You Need to Try This Healthy, 5-Ingredient Chicken Egg Drop Soup Recipe
With the cold weather dragging on, it’s only natural to crave warmth. Unfortunately, since Punxsutawny Phil predicted six more weeks of winter, we’ll have to stay in “soup mode” for a bit longer. After all, we can’t think of a better way to inject some heat into our lives than with steamy comfort foods that make our stomachs happy, our bodies healthy and our souls soothed.
Next on our list of must-try soup recipes? Chicken Egg Drop Soup with Watercress. But before you pull out your pot to begin cooking, here’s how you’ll benefit beyond your tastebuds.
The Benefits Behind the Recipe
One thing all of Dr. Perricone’s “Forever Young” recipes have in common is their high nutritional value that delivers benefits not just for your body but for your skin, too. Within them, you’ll notice several key ingredients that intentionally carry over from recipe to recipe. Watercress, for example, is one that shows up frequently and for good reason — Dr. Perricone calls it a “miracle green” and a “new ancient superfood.”
While we could go on and on about the list of benefits, perhaps the most important is that it is an excellent source of vitamins A, C and E, folate, calcium and iron. These key nutrients assist in overall health, including skin, bone, immune, heart, vision and gut health. Not to mention watercress can also help with blood sugar regulation and weight loss.
For this reason, the winter soup recipe below features this very ingredient making it as as tasty as it is nutritious and, even better? It only has 5 ingredients total so it’s affordable and easy to make, too.
Chicken Egg Drop Soup With Watercress
- 6 cups low-sodium chicken broth
- ½ cup finely diced celery
- 2 tablespoons minced onion
- 2 large eggs, well beaten
- 2 bunches watercress, trimmed
- Bring the chicken broth to a boil in a large pot. Add the celery and onion and simmer, covered, until tender. About 10 minutes.
- With the soup at a rapid boil, slowly pour in the beaten eggs, stirring until the eggs form fine shreds. Add the watercress and cook only about a minute longer.
