Spiocy Chicken & Potato Soup

[lstbred]

Here we go again! a little something to change up our boring chicken, we get our protien, some carbs and some veggies all without being to "heavy" going in to an inbetween season. This recipe makes about 1.5 Gallons.

Chicken breast, diced 1.5lbs this is the BASIC recipe, you can (as I would) up the quantity.
red bell, diced 4.5oz
celery, diced 4oz
onion, diced 4oz
bay leaf 1ea
chicken base, you can get regular or low sodium 1.5oz
red potatoes, diced 12oz
zucchini, diced 4.5oz
green onion, diced .75oz
jalepenos, minced 1.25oz
garlic, minced 1.25oz
water 7cup

Spice: Mix this all together for ease
cilantro, chopped
dried oregano
cumin
dried basil
lime jiuce
kosher salt, you can use reg salt
black pepper
cloves, ground
lime zest, grated, get a fresh lime so you can use the juice and the zest

Preparation:
In deep pot cook chicken.
Add spice mix, sautee for 3-5min
Add peppers, onions, celery, garlic, jalepenos. Cook until tender, 2-3min
Add potatoes, zucchini and water. bring to a boil then reduce heat and simmer until potatoes are tender, 10-15min
Add green onions at end

You could add less water and make this more "stewish" and it would will concentrate the flavors for a more tasty dish. IMO

[Dpyle]

This sounds great but when I give it a go I may add some rice or barley when i do.

[lstbred]

Good idea! I would personally use barley. Cook the barley in the broth, seperately in the flavored broth, then add it to the pot when you add the potatoes. I say cook it seperately because if you add it to the pot early you take the chance of the barley being crunchy or under done then to get it right you may turn the potatoes to mush because you have to cook longer.