Ingredients:

• 1 lb. Chicken
• 4 tbsp lime juice
• 1 lb. pumpkin
• 2 medium potatoes
• 1 lb. white yam or yellow yam
• 1 carrot
• 1½ cups plain flour (for dumplings)
• ¼ tsp salt (for dumplings)
• 1 packet chicken soup mix
• 2 stalks scallion
• 1 sprig thyme
• 1½ tsp salt
• 6 whole pimento berries
• 1 whole scotch bonnet pepper
• Water

Directions for making Jamaican Chicken Soup
Step 1: Clean and wash chicken in a solution of lime juice and 4 cups water. Dispose of solution and rinse further under running water.
Step 2: Cut chicken into bite size pieces and set aside.
Step 3: Peel pumpkin, Irish potatoes, yellow yam, and cut into bite size pieces, cut each corn in three pieces, dice carrot, and set aside.
Step 4: Combine flour, ¼ tsp salt and water, mix well and knead to make a smooth dough: Cover and set aside.
Step 5: In an appropriately sized soup pot, place pumpkin, Irish potatoes, yellow yam, and carrot in water about 1 inch above the level of the food. Add 1½ tsp salt and allow to boil for 10 minutes.
Step 6: Divide dough into six equal parts and make dumplings: Add to the boiling soup.
Step 7: Add chicken, thyme, scallion, Cock Soup mix, pimento berries and Scotch bonnet pepper to boiling soup: Cook for about 35 minutes on medium to low heat.
Step 8: Stir the soup occasionally, testing if salt suits your taste, adding water if necessary to ensure that the soup is at least at the level of the food.
Step 9: Remove Scotch bonnet pepper before serving.