This tasty turmeric and garlic immunity broth can help keep your immune system strong and healthy year-round. You can sip it on its own or make it into a delicious noodle soup.
Have you noticed how elderberry syrup and other immune-boosting foods like turmeric show up in news feeds during flu season?
I used to stock my kitchen with them in the fall before the winter holidays. But in the last few years, I've taken a new view of strengthening immunity.
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🏆 Top tip
You don't need to peel garlic cloves before cooking this delicious immunity broth. Save yourself the work and toss them in the pot, skin and all.
⭐ Why it works
- Tasty
- Quick
- Immune protection
- Parsley for vitamin A
- Optional noodles make a mealtime soup
📋 Ingredients
- Garlic - traditional medicinal to fight colds and flu.
- Turmeric root - fresh root is preferred over powder.
- Oregano - delicious addition. Substitute fresh basil if desired.
- Parsley - increases nutrition with Vitamin A to fight infection.
- Noodles - are optional in immunity broth. Choose thin noodles if including them.
- Vegan chicken bouillon - so tasty. Edward and Sons has a flavorful store brand. Also adds fat to increase the bioavailability of turmeric compounds. The vegan answer to comforting chicken soup remedies!
- Black pepper - works synergistically with turmeric and fat for maximum absorption.
🔪 Steps
- Prep ingredients by slicing turmeric, separating garlic cloves, and mincing herbs.
- Boil turmeric root and unpeeled garlic cloves together.
- Peel half the cooked garlic cloves and discard all the rest with the turmeric slices.
- Blend peeled garlic with broth, and add vegan chicken bouillon, pepper, and fresh herbs.
🧄 What can you do to boost your immune system?
When you think about it, the many things we can do to bolster our cold and virus resistance are the very things that benefit our life in general. Why should we wait until we risk getting sick to take steps? We have everything to gain and nothing to lose by choosing foods and creating a lifestyle that supports an iron-clad immune system.
I suppose I look at it that way because so many of the habits on my stay-healthy list, like this immunity broth, are also the best-tasting foods and most enjoyable activities in my day.
What's on your healthy lifestyle list? For me, it's Wim Hof breathing, swimming or showering in cold water, stretching, organic gardening, a plant-based diet, music, meditation, laughter, hugs, creative projects, extended time in nature, and getting enough sleep.
Yes, some of those things sound pretty ordinary. However, I've read and directly experienced how each one has a marked positive impact on health. Sounds pretty good, right?
In the same way those activities are both healthy and pleasurable, I have sought to create superfood recipes that score in both taste and nutrition. This recipe for fresh turmeric and garlic immunity broth is astonishingly delicious.
I say astonishingly because I haven't held back on the amount of garlic or turmeric in this soup. Indeed, it's loaded with both. In addition, it has a hefty handful of vitamin-packed fresh parsley.
Finally, I've included black pepper and a touch of fat from my healthy homemade bouillon. These two ingredients are said to have a synergistic action that increases the benefits of turmeric root. They also contribute a nice depth of flavor to the immunity broth.
🍜 What kind of pasta?
It's quick and easy to simmer up a pot of this excellent immune-boosting broth. Once it's ready, it's marvelous sipped straight from a mug.
However, when making it for the family, I love to use it as a noodle soup base. You know, a sort of vegan no-chicken soup for body and soul. It's savory, warming, strengthening, and just plain comforting.
You can use any type of noodle you like, but most often, I choose thin linguine or whole-grain Pad Thai style rice noodles.
The following healthy, gluten-free brands, all taste-approved in our home, are fast-cooking, delicate shapes of pasta that are delicious in homemade immunity broth.
- Ancient Harvest organic, gluten-free linguine.
- Jovial Foods organic brown rice capellini.
- Annie Chun's organic, 100 percent whole grain brown rice Pad Thai.
- Lotus Foods organic brown rice and millet ramen.
Break them up before adding them to the pot, and everyone will enjoy fat spoonfuls of pasta in their bowl. What a fantastic way to strengthen your immunity and enjoy lunch at the same time. Why wait to enjoy all the good things in life?
👩🏻🍳 Expert tips
- Leave the skin on turmeric and garlic cloves when boiling immunity broth.
- Discard cooked turmeric root and half the garlic before blending the broth. Peel the remaining garlic cloves and blend them into the broth before adding herbs and bouillon.
- Remember to add the extra 2 cups of water after blending garlic cloves with turmeric broth.
- Mince parsley extra-fine.
- Boil pasta as needed. To avoid mushy noodles, store extra immunity broth in the refrigerator and cook noodles in broth just before serving.
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📖 Recipe
Tasty Turmeric and Garlic Immunity Broth
Ingredients
- 6 cups water, divided
- 2 whole bulbs garlic
- ½ cup sliced fresh tumeric root
- 1 tsp. salt to taste
- 1 ½ tsp. vegan chicken bouillon
- ¼ cup finely minced flat-leaf parsley
- ¼ cup sliced fresh oregano, basil or sub more parsley
- generous amount of cracked black pepper to taste
- Optional 3 oz. thin noodles,(2 cups if broken)
Instructions
- Scrub turmeric but leave the peel on. Slice turmeric. Mince parsley and oregano if included.
- Break apart bulbs of garlic and separate cloves. You don't have to peel the cloves. Just rub off any excess skin. Place in a pot with sliced turmeric and 4 cups of water. Bring to a boil and cook over low heat for 20 minutes.
- Place a strainer over the top of a blender jar. Pour broth through the strainer. Remove half the garlic cloves to a bowl or plate and let cool. Toss out the remaining turmeric and garlic. Or, keep the extra garlic to spread on slices of bread.
- Once reserved garlic is cool enough to handle, slip off the skins. Add peeled garlic cloves to broth in a blender. Secure a lid on the blender. Begin blending on low and turn the speed gradually up to a high setting. Take care not to get burned by hot broth. Blend until there aren't any chunks of garlic showing.
- Strain the blended broth back into the cooking pot. Add the remaining 2 cups of water, salt, and the vegan chicken bouillon. If adding pasta, boil and cook for 15 minutes or until noodles are done. Toss minced herbs in at the end. Remove from heat. Add cracked pepper and adjust salt if needed.
- If not adding pasta, bring soup to a boil and toss in minced herbs. Stir and remove from heat. Add cracked black pepper and adjust salt if needed.
Store
- Immunity broth can be stored for up to three days in the refrigerator or frozen for 3 months and used to make noodle soup when convenient.
Notes
- Ancient Harvest organic, gluten-free linguine.
- Jovial Foods organic brown rice capellini.
- Annie Chun's organic, 100 percent whole grain brown rice Pad Thai.
- Lotus Foods organic brown rice and millet ramen.
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