meal components: protein + veggie + fruit
Servings |
servings
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Ingredients
- 7 oz chicken breast (100g per 3.5 oz) boneless, skinless, cubed
- 2 cups fennel thinly sliced
- 1 1/2 cups apple peeled, chopped
- 2 cups Fat Free, MSG-Free chicken broth SP Option: use water instead
- 2 cups water
- 1/2 cup diced onion SP Option: use no more than 2 tbsp per serving
- 1/4 tsp cinnamon powder or 1 Cinnamon Stick per 1/4 tsp cinnamon powder
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 tsp salt salt to taste- may need more for your taste buds
- 1/4 tsp pepper
- 2 tsp Garlic cloves minced
- 1 tsp lemon juice
AP option:
- 1/2 cup button mushrooms - AP
- 2 cups baby spinach loose
Ingredients
AP option:
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Instructions
Method with Instant Pot:
- Season the chicken with salt and pepper and let it sit while you chop the veggies and fruit.
- Add the chicken, fennel, onion, apple and garlic cloves to the instant pot. For AP Option, add mushrooms here.
- Add chicken broth, cinnamon or cinnamon stick and bay leaf.
- Manual high pressure for 10 minutes.
- Release the pressure and add the spinach and let sit for 5-10 minutes for spinach to gently cook with the residual heat.
Alternate Slow Cooker Method:
- Follow the above steps but adding everything to slow cooker and cook on low for 4 hours.
- (If making AP version, add spinach to the soup and cook on low for another 20 minutes).
- Remove the cinnamon stick and bay leaf and serve while warm!
Recipe Notes
Garnish with lemon.
This soup freezes well so make extra and freeze for an easy dinner later on!
If making an AP version, add miracle rice to the soup for a heartier meal.
Macros listed are for SP version.
meal components: protein + veggie + 1/2 fruit
*Use half of the amount of apple in the original recipe
Per serving: ½ recipe | 209 cal – 25 protein – 3 fat – 21 carbs – 15 net carbs ||
Kimberly
Hello HCGChica.
Thanks for all of the info that you provide. It is a great resource. This comment is in regards to the chicken fennel soup. We are making this now. We were confused by the recipe and believe it would be helpful if you changed the instructions to mention adding the chicken. The recipe says to let the chicken sit, but never says to add it. We just cooked everything but the chicken in our Instant pot for 10 (assuming that adding it would be mentioned after the 10 min cooking time) Then we realized too late that the chicken should have been in there. So we are cooking it now with the chicken, but I am anticipating that the veg ingredients are going to be mushy.
Kim and Joel
Rayzel Lam
oh lol oops!! Thanks so much for bringing this to our attention! Yep we totally miss something now and then. We’ll fix asap.