While dicing local onions and red potatoes on Sunday evening, and speaking with my mom on the phone, I found out that my Tata Wardeh often added turmeric to her chicken soups, for color and for health. Tata Wardeh is/was my grandmother for whom I was named; she passed away after living a long and full life, and was a mother of ten, and grandmother, great-grandmother and great-great-grandmother to almost 100 of my family members. (Please correct me on the details if I’m wrong, Mom.)
Tumeric is known to be a beneficial spice, and among its properties is a lending of anti-inflammatory benefits to persons who eat it.
I used about two teaspoons in a full pot of chicken soup. The main ingredients in the soup: chicken stock, onions, red potatoes, black beans, cooked chicken, turmeric, sage, cumin, salt and pepper. Fabulous. Thank you, Tata Wardeh.
Yumm.. I always use turmeric in chicken soup as well.
Wardeh,
I put a few sprinkles worth of tumeric in my brown rice as it is cooking.
Kelli
Yum! I used tumeric in the bread and butter pickles I canned the other day also. I guess it is good in many different things.
Tiffany
Yum, that soup looks so delicious!! You are right Wardeh, about the numbers of offspring from your Tata. There are 41 grandchildren, and I couldn’t even begin to count the great, the great-great and the great-great-great grandchildren! (Although I do have it written down, with the exception of the last two years, so I could do the math.)
Love, Mom
It really looks good,
for 4 servings would you say 2×32onces,
2 medium onions,
8 red potatoes,
1 can of black beans,
8 pcs of chicken,
does that sound right ?
I am news at this I need a hand to work me thru….
now with fresh turmeric is 1 inch enough ?
how much of sage and cumin.
thank you I can’t wait to do that soup…
Janine -
I’m glad you’re going to try the soup! It is super delicious.
I think 8 red potatoes might be too many, though. I would only use 4 or 5 potatoes (figure 1 per person). Also, perhaps just 1 onion. Everything else looks good! You should do the turmeric and sage and cumin to taste. It is hard to advise you on those. Let me know how it turns out!