Chicken Soup Recipe

The role of diet and nutrition is very significant in Crohn’s disease. A proper diet is important in addition to medical therapies for maintaining and correcting any nutritional deficiencies and for reducing disease activity. Just like everyone else, people with Crohn’s disease need to take in enough protein, calories, vitamins, minerals such as calcium, iron, and zinc, and other nutrients to stay healthy. People with Crohn’s may have increased nutritional requirements to make up for the nutrients they lose. Generally, the patient is advised to have a nutritious, well-balanced diet, with adequate proteins and calories. Crohn’s disease is a tough condition to deal with and to add to your frustrations you may have to do away with your favorite dishes if your doctor advises so.

Some Crohn’s disease friendly recipes that patients may try out include banana bread, lactose free pumpkin cookies, pumpkin bread, soy cheese and macaroni, banana muffins, mashed potato and meat casserole, almond crusted chicken, barbequed chicken, chicken sausage, roasted chicken, pot roast, butternut squash soup, grilled turkey breast, microwave broccoli, oven French fries and raspberry ring. You can come across delicious, easy to prepare low-fiber and non-dairy recipes for those with Crohn’s disease in most magazines as well as the Internet.

There are no foods known to essentially injure the bowel. However, during an acute stage of the Crohn’s disease, bulky foods, milk, and milk products may add to diarrhea and cramping. Diet may have to be restricted based on the symptoms or complications. Patients with strictures should try to avoid recipes high in fiber content. Patients should keep away from recipes that they know would bother them and seek specific recommendations from their physician. Instead of eating heavy meals, patients should eat small meals throughout the day. Many nutrition counselors recommend that patients with Crohn’s disease eat five or six half-sized meals a day. This should be done evenly at regular intervals and probably the last meal should be consumed at least three hours prior to bedtime. In addition to eating sufficiently, you also need to drink adequate fluids to keep your body well hydrated.

If you search the Internet for a beer chicken recipe you will have no trouble finding one. The problem is, most of the beer chicken recipes I have found are pretty wimpy. What I mean is, they all tell you to add a half cup or cup of beer along with mushrooms or some grated cheese or parsley. That’s not a chicken cooked in beer recipe. It’s chicken with a little beer added to the mix for for the purpose of stimulating conversation at the dinner table. Boring.

So without further ado, I am going to turn you on to the ultimate beer chicken recipe. This really is Chicken Cooked In Beer. My beer chicken recipe came about through much trial and error and I want to make it clear, if you love beer, you’re going to love this dish. In fact, just for the sake of accuracy it probably should be called chicken drowned in beer.

The Ultimate Beer Chicken Recipe – Chicken Cooked In Beer!

1-4 to 5 pound Roasting chicken

2-3 quarts of beer (best with Killians, Yuengling or any other full flavored beer)

2 stalks of celery

2 carrots

1 cup of sliced mushrooms

Place the chicken in a roaster and add enough beer to cover at least half of the chicken. If you’re thinking this is a waste of good beer, don’t. (You will thank me later). Place the roaster in the refrigerator and let the chicken marinate overnight. In the morning, turn the chicken over so the other half can marinate for several more hours.

When you are ready to cook the chicken, pour off all of the beer and add 4 cups of new beer (you really will thank me later). Place the roaster in the oven and cook at 350 degrees until the chicken is nearly done. Remove about 2 cups of the liquid for gravy. Add the celery, carrots and mushrooms. Cook for an additional 30 minutes or until the chicken pulls apart easily with a fork. When it’s done, take it out of the roaster, place it on a serving platter and serve with mashed potatoes, beer gravy and your favorite vegetable.

I’m not going to give you specific instructions for making the beer gravy (that’s another recipe after all). But I will tell you that you can mix flour and water until it is pasty and then slowly add it to the simmering liquid until it thickens. If you’re lazy, you can use the chicken gravy packets you buy at the supermarket. Either way, the beer gravy is going to taste great on your mashed potatoes.

Now that you possess Ultimate Beer Chicken recipe, I sincerely hope you enjoy it.