Anti-Inflammatory Turmeric Chicken Soup (Paleo, AIP, Whole30)
This anti-inflammatory turmeric chicken soup is a nourishing and healthy meal. It’s paleo, AIP, and whole30 friendly.
Is turmeric really anti-inflammatory?
Turmeric is a rich and flavorful orange spice that gives amazing color and flavor to a dish and packs a powerful nutrient punch! Turmeric contains curcumin which is a natural anti-inflammatory (source) that can help the body anti-inflame and support health and wellness as a whole.
This chicken soup is made with turmeric as well as other nutrient-dense and beneficial ingredients like ginger, golden beets, kale, and more! It’s the perfect soup for when you’re feeling under the weather, or just want something healthy and nourishing.
How to make this Anti-inflammatory turmeric chicken soup
- Saute the vegetables: Using a large stockpot or dutch oven, heat the coconut oil on medium heat. Add the onion and sauté for 4-5 minutes or until translucent Add in the garlic, celery, cauliflower, carrots, and beets and sauté for 5-6 minutes or until lightly softened
- Add the broth: Pour in the broth and coconut cream and stir until creamy. Season with turmeric, ginger, salt, and pepper and stir until the soup is a rich golden color. Add the chicken and parsley and stir well to combine.
- Simmer and serve: Simmer on medium heat for 20-25 minutes or until vegetables are softened to liking. Stir in the kale and simmer for another 5 minutes. Remove from the heat and allow to slightly cool before serving. Serve topped with additional parsley.
Can you make this soup ahead of time?
Yes! It tastes great the next day as well! You can store it in the fridge for 3-4 days and reheat on the stovetop.
Can you make this soup low carb?
Yes! Simply reduce the amount of carrots for a lower carb soup.
The Ingredients You’ll Need & Substitutions
Chicken bone broth and coconut cream
Chicken bone broth works best for this soup to add in more nutrients. Bone broth can also help to ease inflammation in the gut and soothe the gut lining.
Coconut cream makes this soup creamy, but you can easily leave this out and sub more broth if you don’t tolerate coconut.
Chicken
Pre-cooked and shredded chicken is what I used for this soup.
Golden Beets
Ah ha… the secret ingredient for actually supporting your detox pathways! Beets assist the liver in the natural detox process by actually stimulating the bile flow and increasing the enzymatic activity. So, eating them actually does support our detox pathways in a healthy and totally natural way!
The golden beets in this soup are far less earthy than purple beets, and they won’t stain the soup red. I find golden beets easily at health food stores like Whole Foods, Sprouts, and Natural Grocers.
Carrots, cauliflower, celery, onions, and kale
These are the main veggie ingredients in this soup. You can mix it up a bit, but these yield the best flavor and are the best combination for this soup.
Turmeric, ginger, and parsley
Turmeric is the main spice here and really takes center stage with its rich color! Turmeric is known to be anti-inflammatory as well as ginger. Parsley adds a layer of freshness and flavor.
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PrintAnti-Inflammatory Turmeric Chicken Soup (Paleo, AIP, Whole 30)
- Prep Time: 15
- Cook Time: 30
- Total Time: 45 minutes
- Yield: 4 servings 1x
Description
This anti-inflammatory turmeric chicken soup is a nourishing and healthy meal. It’s paleo, AIP, and whole30 friendly.
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp coconut oil
- 1 medium onion, diced
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 3 celery stalks, chopped
- 1 cup golden beets, peeled and chopped
- 2 cups carrots, peeled and chopped into half moons
- 2 cups cauliflower, chopped
- 5 cups chicken broth
- 1 cup coconut cream (optional, sub more bone broth)
- 16 oz chicken, cooked and shredded
- 1.5 cups kale, destemmed and roughly chopped
- 2–3 tsp ground turmeric
- 1 tsp ground ginger
- 1/4 tsp black pepper (omit for AIP)
- 1 tsp salt
- 2 tbsp fresh parsley (plus extra for garnish)
Instructions
- Using a large stock pot or dutch oven, heat the coconut oil on medium heat.
- Add the onion and sauté for 4-5 minutes or until translucent
- Add in the garlic, celery, cauliflower, carrots and beets and sauté for 5-6 minutes or until lightly softened
- Pour in the broth and coconut cream and stir until creamy. Season with turmeric, ginger, salt, and pepper and stir until the soup is a rich golden color. Add the chicken and parsley and stir well to combine.
- Simmer on medium heat for 20-25 minutes or until vegetables are softened to liking.
- Stir in the kale and simmer for another 5 minutes.
- Remove from the heat and allow to slightly cool before serving. Serve topped with additional parsley.
- Category: Soup
- Method: Stove Top
- Cuisine: Global
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1
- Calories: 423
- Fat: 11g
- Carbohydrates: 20.4g
- Fiber: 5.8g
- Protein: 31.7g
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I made this soup tonight for my lunch tomorrow. It’s delicious.
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Thank you so, so much Ali!! I’m so happy you like it!
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Not bad, not bad at all. Next time I’m leaving the chicken out and I will puree it. Thanks! Great combination of ingredients.
That’s genius!
ABSOLUTELY AMAZING. My whole family LOVED IT!!!!
Thank you so much! I’m so happy that you liked it!!
Such a delicious, hearty, healthy soup! My family loved it! Will make it again and again. The golden beets are sometimes hard to find so one time I just omitted it and the next time I used sweet potato. I made it again today with the golden beets. So good! Either way it was delicious!
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Thank you so much Maheen!! I’m so happy you liked it!
One of my favorite soups! Came upon this recipe while searching for different foods I could make with turmeric. Now every time I see golden beets in the stores, I have to make this soup!
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Yay!! Thank you so much, Trish!!!
I’m always so skeptical about making soup but I went for it because it has all of my favorite ingredients. This soup is soooo delicious!!! I didn’t make mine creamy because I like to add lemon to my soup but still is yummy!
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Thank you so much Silsa! LOVE the idea of using lemon in this. I love lemon-y soup too 🙂
got your “10 steps to heal your body” and the link the to the orange chicken poppers takes me to cauliflower recipe instead! Gonna try some of these recipes, Is there another place that I can find the orange chicken poppers recipe?
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Sounds delicious! Recommendations on how to make if I don’t have an instapot pls?
I would try and cut the time in half and see how it goes 🙂
Could I make this in the instant pot?
I’m sure you could do it and just cut the time down.
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This is one of the best soups I’ve ever made! I’ve made this twice in one week. So much flavor, color, and comfort. Thanks for your creative mind so other mama’s don’t have to think too hard about dinner 🙂
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Thank you so, so much Cournety!! I’m so happy you like it 🙂
This recipe is a keeper that I will make often. Only change I made was doubling the ginger and adding curry powder. The organic bone broth I used was not as flavorful as I would have liked so I addded 2 liquid Trader Joe’s chicken flavor pacs. Thank you!
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I love this soup. The golden beets and coconut cream make it taste great!
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Thank you so much, Katherine!! So happy you like it!!
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Since our first round of Whole 30, this soup has become a staple in my house. My husband and I absolutely love it. So does my 2-year-old!! I feel like I am giving my family the best nutrition possible when I serve this.
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How do I make the organic bone broth at home? Or where do I buy it? What brand is best?
I like the brand, Kettle & Fire, but there are a lot of good chicken bone broth recipes online 🙂 Super easy!
Love the golden beet root, never would have thought of that.
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So glad you like it, Jen! I love the flavor 🙂
I decided to make this tonight for the first time. I knew that I would like it but to my surprise my husband and 6, 9 and 11 yo kids also liked it! I had to make them stop eating it just so I would have some left over for my lunch tomorrow! I have moderately persistent asthma and am looking for any ways to help decrease the inflammation in my lungs. My goal is to cross off the 1/2 marathon run that is on my bucket list. Thank you so much for the delicious recipe!
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I’m so happy it was a hit, Tali!! Sending tons of love on your journey.
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This looks great! When you say 1.5 cups kale, do you mean before or after destemming and chopping? Thanks!
Oh My, Oh my! Yum! Yum! Absoulutely Delicious and beautiful to prepare. Thank you so very very much for sharing this out of this world recipe. Be well always.
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Thank you so much, Rani! So glad you liked it!!!
I make this soup at least twice per month. I LOVE it. It’s so good with some chopped avocado on top. Also, subbing parsley for green onions is delicious! Can’t say enough good things about this soup!!
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Thank you so much Katie!! So happy you like it!
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Very good soup, tasty and hearty! I omitted the coconut milk. I will be making this again! Thank you for your creativity!
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Thank you so much Lois!
I’m about to start the AIP diet and I thought celery was not allowed?
Celery is AIP.
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Could I put all the ingredients in a slow cooker and leave on low all day instead of sautéing?
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I haven’t tried it, but it could work! I would just watch the cooking time and factor in that not as much liquid is cooked off in the slow cooker so it will be a thinner soup.
This soup is amaaaazing!!! I can’t wait to make it again! So good!!
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I could not find gold beets so used red beets. My soup color was pink , like a borscht but very very yummy. It is important to not overcook the vegetables so they still age a crunch.
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How much sodium is in this soup?
It will vary depending on the broth you use. I would check your broth and add in the amount of salt that you wind up using.
Holy moly this was amazing!!! Such delicious flavours all blended together in perfect unison! YUM! I didn’t have golden beets so used a sweet potato as a previous poster suggested. So so good!! Thank you for your incredible concoctions and for sharing them. I have never been disappointed with any of your recipes.
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Thank you so much! So glad you liked it!!
I used to make this soup on a regular basis. My daughter who is 10 loves it as well. Now that grocery shopping has been limited during our quarantine, I find myself REALLY missing this soup! When I first made this recipe, it was the first time I had ever had beets! I didn’t even know golden beets existed! I LOVE this soup. My son who is 8 will eat this if I make him, but he doesn’t ask for it like my daughter does. Considering he is my kid who only wants to eat junk, it says a lot that he will eat this considering how healthy it is!
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Thank you so much, KrisAnn!!! I am SO glad it’s a hit! 🙂
This soup is so delicious and so good for you.
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What can I use instead of golden beets? I can’t find them in store.
You can just swap it out with something like carrots 🙂
I love this recipe – easy to make, delicious and hearty. Perfect for a fall day. Thank you for sharing!
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Thank you so much, Anika!
While I substituted ground beef for the chicken I thought this was absolutely excellent. I also doubled some of the spices, as I like my food very flavorful. Highly recommend!
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This soup was delish !