Thai Chicken Cabbage Soup

• Heat the olive oil in a pot of soup. Add in the chopped onions, celery, bell pepper and salt. Sauté them for 3 minutes at medium-high heat.
• Add ginger and garlic and keep sautéing for another 3 minutes.
• Add the chopped cabbage to the onion mixture and sauté for another 2-3 minutes.
• Add the black pepper, red chili flakes and turmeric powder and mix well.
• Add the chicken stock along with the shredded chicken, fish sauce, vinegar and diced tomatoes.
• Let the soup simmer for 20 minutes.
• Adjust the seasoning by adding some more salt or chilis as required
• Garnish the soup with jalapenos and green chilis.
• Serve and enjoy while till hot.

Trivia

• The earliest evidence of soup consumption dates bac to  6000 
• February 4^th is National Homemade soup day.
• Soup isn’t always supposed to be hot.  In warmer countries, they also serve cold soups.
• People consume 10 billion bowls of soup annually in America.
• Cabbage is available in different varieties and colors such as red, purple, green, Brussel sprouts and Chinese cabbage.
• Cabbage is one of the best ingredients for making clear soups and helps  in losing weight as it is mostly water.
• Chicken is the most common type of poultry meat that is farmed all over the world.
• The earliest evidence of chicken are the early Babylonian carvings depicting them back in 600 BC.