Spicy Chicken and Root Vegetable Soup

This soup recipe is the perfect answer to leftover turkey or chicken. 

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It’ll have even four-day-old poultry tasting as moist and succulent as the day you cooked it up.

    <h4 class="recipe-ingredients__title">Ingredients</h4>
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                                <li>1 cup  packed baby spinach</li>
                                            <li>1 tbsp  olive oil</li>
                                            <li>1  medium onion, chopped</li>
                                            <li>1  medium carrot, chopped</li>
                                            <li>1  celery rib, chopped</li>
                                            <li>1  medium turnip, chopped</li>
                                            <li>1 (15 oz)  can brown lentils, drained</li>
                                            <li>6 oz  leftover skinless chicken, shredded</li>
                                            <li>6 cups (48 fluid oz)  low-sodium chicken stock</li>
                                            <li>1 tbsp  mirin (Japanese sweet rice wine found in the Asian-foods </li>
                                            <li>2  bay leaves</li>
                                            <li>1/8 tsp  cayenne</li>
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    <h2 class="block-title"><span>Directions</span></h2>

                            <li>Stack spinach leaves, roll, then slice into ribbons.</li>
                                    <li>Heat oil in a large pot over medium heat. When simmering, add onion, carrot, celery, and turnip. Cook until onion is translucent, about 4 minutes. Add lentils, chicken, stock, mirin, and bay leaves; stir to combine. Turn heat up to high and bring to a boil, then reduce heat, cover, and simmer until lentils are tender, about 20 minutes.</li>
                                    <li>Remove bay leaves. Stir in cayenne and spinach. Ladle into bowls.</li>

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