Chicken Bone Broth Soup (Keto-friendly)
I’m so excited to share this keto recipe today with all of you. It’s very quickly become one of my new go to meals whenever I’m feeling a bit run down or under the weather. The recipe is for a healing keto bone broth keto chicken soup that’s chock full of meat and healthy veggies. It’s truly one of the most comforting soups that I’ve ever tried.
Bone broth is a fantastic way to make sure that you’re replenishing your electrolytes when on a keto diet, and this soup is the best way that I can think of to enjoy it.
P.S. If you’re looking for something a bit quicker, also try these 5 easy (and nourishing) keto chicken soup recipes.
Or if you’re looking for a good beef bone broth soup instead, give this one a try: https://ketopots.com/keto-french-onion-soup
How to Make Chicken Bone Broth Soup
You’re going to have to do a bit of prep work when making this bone broth soup. The first step is to heat your olive oil in a large pot over a medium heat. As always, make sure that you’re using olive oil instead of vegetable oil; it’s much healthier for you.
Next, you’ll be adding in your onion and cooking for five minutes and then mixing in the garlic cloves and cooking for an additional 30 seconds. The addition of garlic and onion definitely get this recipe off to a great start as far as adding a ton of flavor goes.
More importantly though, they each contain allicin, the compound responsible for giving garlic and onions their potent flavor and health boosting properties, such as lowering your risk of cancer. (1)
You can then add your chicken breast cubes and cook them until they are no longer pink. With that done, go ahead and add in your veggies; mix in the bell peppers, celery, and carrots. This mix of vegetables helps to add in even more essential vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants to the soup.
The only thing to keep an eye on when making this is your total daily carb intake. Feel free to add or remove certain ingredients as necessary if you’re trying to stay in strict ketosis.
Next, add in the four cups of bone broth along with two cups of water. As I mentioned earlier, bone broth is fantastic for keto dieters who are just starting to eliminate carbs in particular due to its high mineral content that can help your body replenish lost electrolytes.
When first eliminating carbs, it’s extremely common for many people to lose a lot of water weight, which can lead to dehydration. By adding both water and bone broth into this soup, you can keep yourself hydrated in an incredibly tasty way.
With that done, you’re going to want to add your broccoli florets into the soup next. These green veggies help this “healing” chicken soup recipe to really earn its name, as they’re an excellent nutrient-dense food that is packed full of antioxidant and anticancer properties. (2) Leave the soup to cook for 10 minutes before finally adding in the chopped parsley and seasoning with a bit of salt and pepper.
This is definitely one of the most hearty and comforting keto soup recipes that I’ve found so far. What it lacks in fat content it more than makes up for by offering plenty of protein, electrolyte replenishing bone broth, and healthy veggies.
It bears repeating that if you’re trying to keep your body in ketosis, you’ll want to keep an eye on the carb content in this recipe. Feel free to experiment by either removing certain ingredients like the carrots or even adding in more low carb green veggie options if you’d like.
If you’re looking for something just as comforting and incredibly soul-satisfying, try this keto-friendly cheeseburger soup: https://ketopots.com/keto-cheeseburger-soup
Chicken Bone Broth Soup
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 40 minutes
- Total Time: 55 minutes
- Yield: 4 1x
- Category: Soup, Dinner, Lunch
- Cuisine: American
Ingredients
1 ½ pound skinless boneless chicken breasts, cut into ½ inch cubes
1 small onion, chopped
1 garlic clove, minced
½ green bell pepper, cubed
½ red bell pepper, cubed
2 medium carrots, diced
1 large stalk celery, diced
4 cups bone broth
2 cups broccoli florets
salt, black pepper to taste
¼ cup chopped parsley
Instructions
- Heat the olive oil in a large pot over medium heat.
- Add the onion and cook for 5 minutes.
- Add the garlic and cook for 30 seconds.
- Add the chicken and cook until no longer pink.
- Add the celery, carrots and peppers and cook for 2-3 minutes.
- Add the bone broth and 2 cups of water and bring to a boil.
- Reduce the heat, cover with a lid and simmer for 25-30 minutes.
- Add the broccoli florets and cook for 10 minutes.
- Add the parsley, season to taste with salt and black pepper and serve.
Nutrition
Keywords: bone broth, soup, chicken
We made this wonderful soup today! We loved everything about it! We will definitely make this again in the future.
★★★★★
What veggie can I substitute for the peppers? I am allergic to nightshade plants
It should be great without the peppers 🙂 If I was to leave them out though, I would probably just double up on the carrots and celery. Bok choy or cabbage would work great as well.
In the Healing Bone Broth Chicken Soup, can I switch off the broccolli for califlower…broccolli is not good for my thyriod…
Cauliflower would make a great substitute in this chicken soup Sheila 🙂
This soup is awesome.
I didn’t have some of the ingredients so I added some. No chicken, used ground turkey. No red pepper and only half of green. So I added left over items raw of course. 1 cup kale, 10 10oz mushrooms and 3inch Zucchini.