Wash and drain soup chicken and place in a large pot.
Pour pot with cold water and bring to a boil.
Cook soup chicken for about 10 minutes, skimming off foam with a skimmer.
Wash greens, cut half into rough pieces, peel the other half and cut into small cubes.
Onion and ginger also wash and cut into coarse pieces.
Roast the spices briefly in a pan without fat until the aroma develops. If you like, you can also roast onion and ginger.
Add coarse vegetable pieces and spices to the soup and simmer over medium heat for about 1.5 hours.
Remove chicken from soup and pour broth through a sieve.
Pluck chicken from bones and cut large pieces into small pieces.
Return broth and chicken to pot. Add vegetable cubes and pearl couscous and simmer for another 10-15 minutes over medium heat.
Drain the chickpeas and stir into the soup.
Chicken soup with chickpeas and pearl couscous garnish with a little chopped parsley.