Chicken Soup with Zing!

Ingredients

• 4 cups basic chicken broth or commercial chicken broth
• 2 quarter-sized pieces peeled ginger
• 2 medium cloves garlic, peeled and thinly sliced lengthwise
• 1 jalapeño pepper, seeded, deribbed, and finely chopped
• 6 basil leaves
• 3 scallions, trimmed to 5 inches, white and green parts cut separately lengthwise into hair-thin strips
• 1/4 cup fresh lemon juice
• 1/2 small bunch cilantro, leaves only, finely chopped
• kosher salt, to taste
• Freshly ground black pepper, to taste
• cilantro leaves, for serving

Directions

1. In a medium saucepan, bring the stock, ½ cup water, the ginger, garlic and jalapeño to a boil.
2. Lower the heat and simmer, partially covered, for 15 minutes.
3. Stir in the basil and scallion whites.
4. Cook for 3 minutes.
5. Stir in the scallion greens and cook just until wilted, about 1 minute.
6. Stir in the lemon juice, chopped cilantro, salt and pepper.
7. Warm through.
8. Sprinkle each bowl with a few leaves of cilantro.

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