Comforting Chicken Soup - Rouba Shahin Middle Eastern Cooking

Ingredients

• 1 whole chicken
• 1 large carrot cut ½
• 2 celery sticks with leaves cut in ½
• 3 sprigs of parsley
• 1 onion quartered
• 3 bay leaves
• 4-6 peppercorns
• 2 cloves
• 3-4 litres of water
• 60 grams of butter
• 2 tablespoons of plain flour
• 2 potato diced into bite-size pieces
• 250 grams of butternut pumpkin diced into bite-size pieces
• 1 large carrot cut into matchsticks
• 1 leek cut in half lengthways shredded
• 3 celery sticks cut into bite-size pieces
• 200 grams of green beans chopped into bite-sized pieces
• 200 grams of broccoli cut into small florets
• 2 tablespoons of thickened cream
• 100 grams of baby spinach shredded
• Handful of parsley chopped
• Salt and pepper to taste