Chicken Detox Soup
by Sommer Collier — last updated on Oct 10, 2025 Chicken Detox Soup is a fast, tasty meal filled with vitamins and nutrients. This cleansing soup is great to make when you need a do-over in your eating plan.
Why We Love This Chicken Detox Soup Recipe
Looking for a great Detox Soup Recipe? Especially after the holidays, I like to take some time to eat healthy and include some nourishing, detoxing soups like this Chicken Detox Soup!
From my personal experience, cleanses usually involve expensive herbal supplement kits from the health food store, or a whole lot of juicing.
However, this cleanse is different. It’s a Chicken Detox Soup Cleanse made from a nourishing homemade soup with fresh chicken, loads of veggies, and ginger, to boost your metabolism and immune system, as well as remove toxins to help your body work as it should. Eat this soup for a few days and you will be feeling good as new! It is gluten-free, dairy-free, and paleo to boot!
With protein, vegetables, vitamins, and minerals, it provides more nutrients than most of the world’s population receives on any given day. So don’t be afraid to give it a try!
Ingredients You Need
- Chicken Breast – chicken breast is best since it is high in protein and low in fat. You can use chicken thighs, but this will add fat to the chicken soup.
- Chicken Broth – or chicken stock
- Vegetables – onion, broccoli, carrots, celery and peas
- Fresh Parsley – for a fresh, herby flavor
- Fresh Ginger – adds flavor and antioxidants
- Garlic – to make the soup aromatic
- Olive Oil – to sauté the veggies, you can also use avocado oil if preferred!
- Apple Cider Vinegar – adds a slight tangy flavor
- Crushed Red Pepper – for just a hint of spice
- Turmeric – great for cleanses
- Salt & Pepper – to taste
Pro Tip: If you see any vegetable in there that you don’t like, switch it out for something you do like. Other great options are spinach, kale, or additional fresh herbs! For ease, you can use shredded rotisserie chicken instead!
How to Make Detox Soup
Set a large sauce pot over medium heat. Add the olive oil, chopped onions, celery, ginger, and garlic. Sauté for 5-6 minutes to soften. Then add the raw chicken breasts, broth, carrots, apple cider vinegar, crushed red pepper, turmeric, and 1 teaspoon sea salt.
Bring to a boil, lower the heat, and simmer for 20+ minutes, until the chicken breasts are cooked through. Then remove the chicken with tongs and set them on a cutting board to cool.
Add broccoli, peas, and parsley to the pot. Continue to simmer to soften the broccoli. Meanwhile, shred the chicken breast with two forks, and stir it back into the soup. Once the broccoli is tender, taste, then salt and pepper as needed. Serve warm!
Pro Tip: If you like a little extra tangy flavor, serve your chicken detox soup with a squeeze of fresh lemon juice.
Frequently Asked Questions
Chicken detox soup is a healthy soup made with lots of veggies and immune-boosting ingredients to detox your body from toxins. This recipe includes ultra-healthy flavor-makers like ginger, turmeric, and apple cider vinegar.
To make a detox vegetable soup, omit the chicken and use vegetable broth instead. Keep in mind that the soup will not have as much protein for a fully balanced meal.
Store leftover chicken detox soup in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 5 days. The leftover soup makes for a great meal prep idea. To freeze, place in the freezer in a large zip bag for up to 3 months. Thaw in the fridge and then place in a sauce pot to reheat.
Check the Recipe Card to See How to Make Chicken Detox Soup + Video!
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- Southwest Chicken Detox Soup
- Roasted Salmon Detox Bowl
- Cleansing Detox Water
- Smoked Chicken Breast and Thighs
- Paleo White Chicken Chili
- Paleo Lemon Chicken
- Paleo Nut Bars
- 3-Ingredient Paleo Pancakes
- Baked Sweet Potato Chips
- Perfect Baked Beet Chips
Chicken Detox Soup Recipe + Video
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 pounds boneless skinless chicken breast
- 2 quarts chicken broth
- 1 large onion, peeled and chopped
- 3 cups broccoli florets
- 2 1/2 cups sliced carrots
- 2 cups chopped celery
- 1 1/2 cups frozen peas
- 1/4 cup chopped parsley
- 3 tablespoons fresh ginger, shredded or grated
- 4 garlic cloves minced
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
- 1/4 – 1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon ground turmeric
- salt and pepper
Instructions
- Set a large sauce pot over medium heat. Add the olive oil, chopped onions, celery, ginger, and garlic. Saute for 5-6 minutes to soften. Then add the raw chicken breasts, broth, carrots, apple cider vinegar, crushed red pepper, turmeric and 1 teaspoon sea salt.
- Bring to a boil, lower the heat, and simmer for 20+ minutes, until the chicken breasts are cooked through. Then remove the chicken with tongs and set them on a cutting board to cool.
- Add the broccoli, peas, and parsley to the pot. Continue to simmer to soften the broccoli. Meanwhile, shred the chicken breasts with two forks, and stir it back into the soup. Once the broccoli is tender, taste, then salt and pepper as needed. Serve warm.
Notes
Nutrition
Recipe based on Chicken Detox Soup from Perfect Weight America
I absolutely love this soup. I have a question…what is the true calorie count…one print out says 91 calories for 1.5 cups…the other print out says 199 calories for 12g???
Hi There,
It’s hard to give exact nutritional values on recipes, because all the tools available to us give slightly different readings. The nutritional facts listed as at the moment are coming from a newer built-in plugin, and should be close to accuarate.
Hello, can I eat this as a weight loss as well as detox, I am needing to shed a lot of weigh in the next month and a half.
I dont normally leave comments but I’ve made this soup like 20 times. I make huge batches and freeze containers to pull out when I want some it tastes so good and you can put ANY vegetable you want in this broth. Thank you!
I used for vegetables: onion, Can green beans, mushrooms, and cabbage. I had no ginger so I added power ginger. Rotisserie chicken. And completed the rest of the recipe ingredients and amounts. Less cook time. Yum! Thank you!
just a hint….don’t use canned beans…too much sodium. Alway try and use fresh vegis for making soup…sometimes the clearance shelf in the grocery store is stocked full of vegis waiting to be soup. Enjoy!!
We were just looking for a soup recipe and this was perfect! Tasted so good and very filling!
I’m so lost why the sodium is so high! The broth maybe? any ideas? looks so healthy I want to make it but I have to watch sodium :(
Hi Samantha,
Yes, that is the only ingredient that could be the culprit. Feel free to use low-sodium or homemade chicken broth.
I make a variation of this soup & make my own chicken broth out of it by adding hot water, garlic, onions & sesalt to the already cooked chicken & let simmer. I add the last of the ingredients immediately after.
This soup is so good definitely will be making it again . Very tasty and filling .
I used leek instead of onion and added baby corn , courgette and pol Choi
This looks amazing! but almost 500mg of sodium per serving seems high for this recipe! I can’t figure out where all the sodium is coming from? such a healthy recipe! help? :(
Use low-sodium or unsalted chicken broth and you can eliminate most or all of the sodium! Just add in your desired amount of salt to taste.
Wow, this is really good! I’ll definitely be making it again – thanks for the recipe!!!
Hey Loved this soup. Made a double batch and added some cabbage, parsnips and cauliflower. It is addictive. Thank you
This recipe might be my all-time favorite soup recipe. So good!
This was great…I had to swap out/omit veggies to make it low FODMAP so I used carrots, bok choy, edamame, parsley and a can of fire roasted tomatoes. Plus I added a homemade curry powder that gave it a spicy kick. Next time I want to add some extra greens like kale or collards. Good with a little avocado diced on top (probably not great for the cleanse).
Could you tell me a bit more about the directions to this cleanse ? 4 to 5 days of only eating the soup?
Hi Jenn,
Yes, just soup the first few days, but as much as you want. Then you can add in lean salads with grilled salmon in the evenings, if you want to add on a few more days of soup throughout the day.