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!
Looking for More Healthy Recipes? Be Sure to Also Try:
- 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
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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.
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Nutrition
Recipe based on Chicken Detox Soup from Perfect Weight America
I’ve made this soup many times!!! It’s delicious and healthy too☺️
This was INCREDIBLE!! I normally don’t leave reviews but I’m in love with this soup. I don’t usually like ginger so I was a bit hesitant, but it compliments the soup beautifully. The broth is so flavourful it is the best chicken soup I’ve had!
I did go a bit lighter on the ginger (2.5ish tbsp), I added some green onions when I put the broccoli in (I’m obsessed with green onions) and I added more chicken broth in as someone suggested and C’EST PARFAIT!! My SO bought me a whole Costco case of chicken broth … so I guess I have to make this again next week 0-:)
Thanks for the awesome recipe!
I have had several detox soup recipes and they always are hard to eat. This recipe is amazing. THANK YOU!
This is the best and most flavourful chicken soup I have ever made and eaten. I’m in love with this soup!!! I made a batch yesterday and gave half away. I am making another batch today. This will be staple in my diet from now on. Thanks so much for this delicious recipe!!! A+++
This is truly one of the BEST soups I’ve ever made or eaten! Everything mixes so well together in this. Great job!!!
Several years ago I found a recipe for weight loss soup and I really enjoyed it, unfortunately I never got around to putting it on a card or in my recipe binder and it got too mangled to read. We just got a very cold blast of winter this weekend and I felt like making the chicken soup and couldn’t quite remember all the quantities of the ingredients. I went looking online to see if I would luck out and find it there. I came across this recipe which looked very similar to the former and voila; I have a new favorite chicken soup complete with detox qualities. I had roasted a big chicken a few days ago and had plenty meat left over so I used that. I had made chicken broth with the carcass and vegetables also so I used that and a carton of broth on hand. With all the vegetables and flavor enhancers I used, this soup was amazing! I won’t have any problem eating this for every meal for a few days.
Made this last night, added a little sriracha for spice. Delicious!
This soup is fantastic. There is no other way to say it, it’s delicious and has so much flavor. I already can’t wait to make again!
Great recipe. Very flavorful. I make this in an instant pot which makes it super simple. I saute the garlic and ginger with shallots, carrots and celery in the olive oil. I then put in the chicken broth and the chicken and set it to the soup/ stew setting for 25 min. Once finished I shred the chicken in the soup. Its shreds super easily. Then I add the broccoli and peas and let cool. I freeze pint containers of the soup to have on hand.
I make this every week now.
Didn’t 25 minutes in the Instant Pot turn the veggies to mush? I have a chicken noodle soup recipe for Instant Pot and after sautéing the veg 7 minutes is perfect. I’d prefer using IP but I don’t want to ruin it.
I’ve been trying to eat clean for about a month and a half and seemed to have plateaued so I started looking for something new to kick start it back into gear. I love chicken noodle soup, so I gave this try. It did not disappoint! I didn’t even miss the noodles! I did not follow it for all three meals. I had my regular breakfast of eggs and grapefruit. I have not stepped on the scale yet, but I did eat it up in three days so I’m making a bigger batch today and will try to eat it all three meals to see if I lose any weight. If I remember I’ll check back in after a week to share my results. But it was delicious. Even my husband liked it – which he is a complete food snob and never likes anything I make. I’m not worried about the sodium since I am eating clean and I’ve heard you should add more salt to your diet cause natural foods don’t have as much sodium as your body needs to feel good. I’m not sure how accurate that is. I have been waking up energized and keeping that energy all day. Also I’d like to add it was delicious each time I heated it up in the microwave. Tasted fresh and not soggy at all. I didn’t have time to freeze any. It was gone that fast! Thanks for the recipe!
Love this recipe! Not interested in detox, but it’s a super-healthy boost. Warning: if you are a novice, it takes much longer to prepare everything when you are hand chopping everything. At least an hour to prep. But well worth it because the soup is delicious. Thank you for sharing!
My husband wont eat any vegetables if he can see them…. can this soup be blended down and still have its nutritional content?
Thanks