Chicken Soup with Zing! Recipe - A Flavorful Combination of Ginger, Garlic, Jalapeño Pepper, and Lem

Ingredients

• 4 cups of basic chicken broth or commercial chicken broth
• 2 quarter-sized pieces of peeled ginger
• 2 medium cloves of garlic , peeled and thinly sliced lengthwise
• 1 jalapeño pepper , seeded, deribbed, and finely chopped
• 6 basil leaves
• 3 scallions , trimmed to 5 inches, white and green parts cut separately lengthwise into hair-thin strips
• 0.25 cup of fresh lemon juice
• 0.5 small bunch of cilantro , leaves only, finely chopped
• kosher salt , to taste
• Freshly ground black pepper , to taste
• cilantro leaves, for serving