This Healthy Bok Choy Garlic Soup is my go to soup for whenever I’m feeling run down. It’s super healing and packed full of nutrition. You can easily add chopped cooked or shredded chicken otherwise the stock is made of a chicken broth that is good in itself.

You may also want to try my other healing soups, such as Greek Lemon Chicken Soup or my Healthy Chicken Noodle Soup / Healthy Celery Soup recipes.

This Bok Choy Garlic Soup is made with vegetable or chicken broth, bok choy, EXTRA GARLIC, onions and ginger. Which is sure to help you feel better after slurping a few bowls of this throughout the day!

BENEFITS OF GARLIC WHEN BATTLING A COLD OR FLU

Garlic has immune boosting benefits and some Dr. will argue is a super food which can fight off viruses. As it has antiviral properties in it which can shorten or reduce the duration of an illness.

So in this soup you will find a good amount of garlic to help your body heal or get strong for the colder months ahead. If you can handle more garlic go ahead and add it! But be sure to cook it fully otherwise you can get an upset stomach!

There is two ways to serve this soup!

The first picture is my updated recipe and the one below is my older.

The differences are: 

• I chopped the chicken into smaller pieces along with the mushrooms, bok choy, garlic and onions.
• Then served it with a lemon wedge for added vitamin C.

The way you prepare it is completely up to you, both ways are delicious! But my updated recipe is below in the recipe card which adds a few additions as mentioned above.

IS SOUP GOOD FOR THE FLU

Yes, soup is good for soothing both cold and flu symptoms.

The hot chicken broth helps break up the congestion and the salt can sooth a sore throat.  

Then with the addition of garlic, ginger, onions and spices you are going to be consuming a lot of feel good nutrients.

So if you are wanting to fight off an impending cold or flu?

Keep yourself hydrated with a hot pot of soup is good to help cleanse and clear out the gunk from your system naturally.

This is the stuff you are going to want to make, feel free to add more garlic and ginger if you can handle it as well.

Which will amp up the nutrients as the onion, garlic and ginger all have amazing antibacterials properties.

The more you have the better your sure to feel during the dreaded cold and flu season.

Also in combination of this soup, be sure to add a Vitamin D supplement to your daily regime as well.

All these little yet big things can be of much help to getting you on the road to feeling better. 

NOODLES THAT CAN GO INTO THIS SOUP

• RAMEN
• VERMICELLI
• EGGNOODLES
• NOODLES
• RICE

Now, I do not know about you but whenever I travel I tend to catch a cold!

Sucks I know, so beforehand I do my best to boost my immune system with supplements and eating healthy.

But sometimes no matter what you do, that pesky cold still comes on.

So a soup like this is sure to help the body to heal and feel better!

Ever since I started to incorporate this soup in my diet right around the time I travel, I manage to minimize or avoid the symptoms of the cold and for me that is great because I would rather be sick 24 hours versus 2 weeks.

Packed with immune boosting ingredients and nutrients, this soup is something you will definitely enjoy even when you’re not under the weather.

Feel free to add some egg noodles to it if you like. I hope you give it a try, and If you are not feeling well I hope this soup makes you feel a whole lot better.

HOW TO MAKE BOK CHOY SOUP

• Start by slicing your mushrooms and chopping the baby bok choy into bite size pieces.
• Next chop your onion, crush your garlic and peel and finely chop your your ginger root into tiny pieces. You can use powders if you prefer.
• If you are using chicken breasts: dice them into bite size pieces and set aside.
• If you are using a Rotisserie chicken: remove all the meat from your bird and then place the chicken carcass into a large stock pot and add cover with 8 cups of water. Simmer the carcass on low heat for 45 minutes turning a few times to allow the stock to develop.
• Once the stock has developed, discard the carcass and place the remaining stock aside in a bowl.
• Next, in your stock pot heat the olive oil and sauteed your onion, garlic and ginger for 2 minutes till fragrant.
• Now, add in your shredded chicken, chicken stock along with all your bok choy
• Add in all the spices and simmer on medium – low for 20 minutes.
• Serve and allow your body to heal itself. Enjoy!

CAN YOU FREEZE BOK CHOY SOUP

Yes, it freezes well. Up to 3 months max though, you do not want a freezer burnt soup.

I have plenty of soup of other soups on this site that would help anyone to feel better. One of which is my Vegetable Egg drop soup. It is absolutely delicious and healthy for you as well.

And my Duck Pho Soup

Rotisserie Chicken Soup

Healthy Chicken Noodle Soup

Note: You can add egg noodles during the last 7 minutes of cooking if desired. And more chicken stock if your wanting more broth to the soup. Add more garlic and onion for more of an antibacterial boost.

DID YOU MAKE THIS RECIPE?

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Photos updated: Nov 2021