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
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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.
Notes
Nutrition
Recipe based on Chicken Detox Soup from Perfect Weight America
Can I freeze it?
Hi Karey,
Yes, you can. Please it in an airtight container and freeze for up to 6 months.
So tasty!! I didn’t have enough ginger and committed peas; was so tasty with slight modifications. Thank you!
I have made this soup several times . It is absolutely scrumptious and satisfying. I could easily eat it twice a day most of the time…and I changed nothing. Several friends have also made this soup with fabulous results. Amazingly, they all lost weight while eating it faithfully even once a day with super moderate dieting (as in eliminating alcohol, and sweets and high caloric snacking foods or beverages ) and were not feeling even slightly deprived or unsatisfied. I cannot say how much I love it.( .I think I did increase the turmeric a bit as it was a lot of soup with just a touch of turmeric, comparatively.)
Love this! I can’t deal with detox soups as they leave me feeling unsatisfied. This on the other hand felt more like comfort food. I did my own little spin and also added cabbage, paprika, fresh green chillies and tomato paste & puree. Thanks for a great recipe!x
Thanks for the recipe, will be making it tonight for my sister who’s got a cold but since we don’t have broccoli, I’m going to use cauliflower instead!
Cheers, Elna
This is so flavorful. I will definitely make this again and again. Love how it’s chock-full of vegetables. So deliciously satisfying and yet so healthy! I only made one addition to the soup. I added a few radishes that I quartered (they were large) and it has a nice potato like texture. So good. Thank you for this great recipe.
I plan to make this but wanted to ask if cabbage would be ok to use instead of broccoli. I also have never been able to acquire the taste for turmeric, is there anything else I could use?
Thank you so much!
Hi Debbie,
Yes, you can omit the broccoli and add any veggie you like. Cabbage is a good option! You can also omit the turmeric, however, it is very cleansing and healing. It is added more for health benefits than flavor.
Hey Debbie!
Just a tip to try with the turmeric – if you brown it at the start of the recipes along with the onion (I’d probably let the onions soften a little first and add the turmeric a couple of mins into browning) it changes the flavour a little… I find it MUCH more palatable when it’s cooked off a little first!
Interesting that you mentioned that, I made the soup today, and added the turmeric, ginger, while sautéing the onions and celery, it tasted really good, my husband gave me tons of kudos!
This soup is my favorite chicken soup recipe ! So healthy and packed with flavor. I meal prep for work and my 4 year old loves as well!
I made it and it was exceptionally tasty.
please have an option to change to grams & kilo
Even my fussy son loves it. Very tasty, healthy soup, but certainly not fast. Preparation takes most of the time. I have done this recipe at least 6 times and incl. preparation and cooking until finish it might be 2 hours, but it’s still worth it. I freeze some of it for times when we get a cold. If you don’t like it thick just add some more chicken stock.
This soup is bloody awesome!
I added some cabbage,extra garlic & ginger & some curry powder and wow!
Give this soup a go guys. It’s really good.