Posted by beardedlady on March 23, 2003, at 17:07:54
In reply to Anyone know how to make good chicken soup?, posted by kara lynne on March 23, 2003, at 15:45:43
My husband makes the best chicken soup, though we often add gobs of egg noodles to make it chicken stew.
Here's how.
1. Boil the hell out of a dead chicken.
2. When it's done (the meat falls off the bone), save the cooking water, and take the chicken out. Discard the skin, bones, and all the other inedible stuff. Set aside the pile of meat. You can use some for chicken salad (though you're having trouble eating, right?), or you can use it all in the soup.
3. If you'd like, put the soup in the fridge overnight. The fat will get hard, and you can remove it. But chicken soup needs some fat for flavor, and you might too, so leave it.
4. Add a medium onion (diced), three stalks of celery (diced), three carrots (sliced), three potatoes (cubed), garlic, and four or five packets of Herb Ox chicken broth. Add the chicken back, and cook the hell out of the soup.
5. Add lots of salt and pepper. (You can add more herbs and spices, but this is what we like.)
6. For stew, serve over egg noodles.This is truly great soup. Good luck!
beardy : )>
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