Jamaican chicken soup is on the menu today! Nothing beats this hearty chicken soup dish it is full of flavour and very filling that you won’t need any sides.
Fridays or Saturdays are Jamaicans soup days. I don’t always stick to the soup days.
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There are other days that I might feel like having soup, especially when I am feeling sick.
Soups goes down well when you have the cold or flu.
Jamaican soups are cooked with a lot of vegetables and ground provisions in it.
This makes our soup very filling and we eat it as a full meal.
The provisions that you need to make this chicken soup are pumpkin, yellow yam, carrot, cho cho (chayote) and corn.
If you like potato you can include it.
You will also need the chicken, the seasoning (thyme, onion, garlic, pimento, scalllion, scotch bonnet pepper) and a soup mix.
Another thing, Jamaican soup isn’t complete if it doesn’t have dumplings in it.
It would feel strange to a Jamaican to have soup without dumplings.
Dumpling is plain four mixed with with water to form a firm dough.
Even though I add salt to the ingredients below, I personally do not add it when I am making if for myself.
But I notice that a lot of people finds boiled dumpling that is cooked without salt to taste a bit bland.
Most time I would add a bit of cornmeal to the flour to switch things up. Give that a try and see how you like it compare to the plain flour.
How To Make Jamaican Chicken Soup From Scratch?
Step 1. Wash the chicken in lime juice and water.
Step 2. Place the chicken in a large soup pot along with the pimento (allspice), scallion, thyme, garlic, onion, corn and salt.
Add enough boiling water to cover the food in the pot and put to cook for five to ten minutes.
Step 3. Add the pumpkin. I never peel my pumpkin but you can.
Step 4. Add the yam, cho cho (chayote), carrots and the dumplings. Add more boiling water to cover all the food in the pot.
Step 5. Add the soup mix. The soup mix tends to form lumps when you pour it in the soup straight from the pack.
So whenever I am using it I would mix it with a little bit of boiling water in a little bowl before pouring it into the soup.
Step 6. Add a whole scotch bonnet pepper and cover the pot and let it cook for about 20-30 minutes are until all the food in the pot is fully cooked.
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Jamaican chicken soup recipe
Ingredients
- 1 lb Boneless chicken
- 1 pack Chicken noodle soup mix
- ½ lb Fresh pumpkin Cubed
- ½ lb Yellow yam Cubed
- 1 Chocho (chayote) Peal and cubed
- 1 Corn Cut into three pieces
- 2 Medium carrots Peal and diced
- 1 Medium onion Sliced
- 4 Cloves garlic Crushed
- 1 Scotch bonnet pepper
- 2 Scallions (spring onions) Chopped
- 5 Sprig of thyme
- 5 Pimento berries (Allspice)
- ½ tsp Salt Or to your taste
- Water
Dumpling Mix
- 1 cup Plain flour
- Water
- ¼ tsp Salt optional
- 1 tbsp Cornmeal optional
Instructions
How to make the dumpling
- Mix the flour and salt (if you are adding salt) with enough water to make a stiff dough.
- Separate into very small pieces and make round flat dumplings
Prepearing the soup
- Place the chicken in a large soup pot along with the pimento (allspice), onion, scallion, garlic, thyme, corn, salt and cover about an inch with boiling water let it cook for 10 minutes.
- Add the pumpkin, carrot, chocho, yellow yam and the dumplings. Adding enough boiling water to cover the foods in the pot.
- Stir in the soup mix and add the scotch bonnet pepper. Do not cut the pepper, add it whole.
- Cover the pot and let it cook for 30-55 minutes. Stir occasionally, be careful not to bust the pepper. One the pot starts to bubble, turn the heat down.
- One the food is cooked and the soup take colour, taste the pot if you need more salt. You may want to remove the pepper at this time.
Great job!
I’m so grateful to you for sharing your recipe. I visit Negril every year..except since COVID. I always stay with the locals (no resorts) unless owned by Jamaicans. Annnddd let me tell you that I’m Jamaican at heart. The people, food, the culture but mostly the experience. So thank you for giving me something that makes me feel like I’m there all over again!!
Thank you so much for sharing this!
Amazing
Thank you
Wow this was awesome ,went to the local Spanish store and got coco and a lot of ground food and added it . Wow 🤩 $17 later a big pot of soup.
This is so good! I’ve made it a few times now, and I could eat it everyday 🤗😍😉
Make sure the stem is on that scotch bonnet pepper ( word to the wise)
Someone please share how you get the right consistency for your dumplings. Also, what soup mix do you use? I can’t wait to try the recipe!
Excellence recipe thank you.
I used two boxes of chicken stock, two ears of corn, and celery. Delicious 🤤!!
Hi Lesa,
I tried out this recipe in two consecutive days. (alot of my family were sick these last days)
Once with my own instant chicken soup mix and secondly with a vegetarian type as they didn’t have any halaal ready made packs.
Both times soup came out quiet well, but it was missing a rounded flavour. I put coconut cream in both my soup and it notched up the flavour by 30%. It also looked more like your picture. Thank you for the recipe, I really enjoyed cooking it and it was really full on flavour too.
Yes, coconut milk will work in this recipe. Glad you tried it and liked it.
Thank you. When you haven’t cooked something in a long time but fancy it, It’s great the have a page like this to refer too. 🙂 Thanks again.
🙂 👍🏽
This recipe was so easy to follow. Best soup I ever made ☺️
Simply delicious! Add some coconut cream for extra flavour and body. But not too much…😋
Absolutely delicious meal!
It was perfect. Thank you for sharing.
This is the best soup I ever made. I added a pinch
or 2 of Masala powder, plus cooked it in my trusty crockpot. So good!! Thank you for sharing..Blessings to you..
Family loved it! 😁 Thank you
This soup was delicious. I did not have a Pumpkin so I substituted and used pumpkin flavored soup mix and it great out great!
Thank for this easy recipe it came out get !
Hello.
Absolutely delicious!
Kind regards
Janet
I made your chicken soup 2day but missed the bit about mixing the soup mix in a bowl
My chicken soup was a 9 out of 10 because I didn’t have no chow chow..
Lovely easy how to guide just like my partners mom makes
Thank you for sharing this recipe, tastes absolutely amazing!!