CHICKEN SOUP FROM SCRATCH
Chicken soup is one of the most painless and pleasing recipes a home cook can master. This soup has all the classic flavors (celery, carrot, parsley) but has been updated for today's cooks, who can't easily buy the stewing hen and packet of soup vegetables that old-fashioned recipes used to call for. A whole bird provides the right combination of fat, salt and flavor. Don't be tempted to use all white meat, as the flavor won't be as round. Because making soup involves the bones and deep tissues of the bird, it is particularly reassuring here to use the highest-quality poultry you can find. This method produces a fragrant, golden, savory soup you want to eat all winter long; it's a perfect backdrop for noodles, rice or matzo balls.
Provided by Julia Moskin
Categories dinner, lunch, soups and stews, appetizer, main course
Time 2h
Yield 6 to 8 servings
Number Of Ingredients 15
Steps:
- Place the chicken, celery, carrots, onions, parsnip (if using), parsley, peppercorns, bay leaves and salt in a large soup pot and cover with cold water by 1 inch.
- Bring to a boil over high heat, then immediately reduce the heat to very low. Adjust the heat until the soup is "smiling": barely moving on the surface, with an occasional bubble breaking through. Cook uncovered, until the chicken is very tender and falling off the bone, 1 to 1 1/2 hours.
- When cool enough to handle, use tongs to transfer chicken from the pot to a container. Taste the broth and continue to simmer it until it is concentrated and tasty. Strain broth through a fine sieve (or a colander lined with cheesecloth) into a separate container. Discard all the solids from the strainer (or reserve the vegetables, chill and serve with vinaigrette, if you wish).
- Refrigerate chicken pieces and broth separately for at least 8 hours (or up to 3 days), until a thick layer of yellow fat has risen to the top of the broth.
- When ready to finish the soup, use your fingers to separate chicken breast meat from bones and skin. Discard bones and skin. Use two forks to pull the breast meat apart into soft chunks, or use a knife and cut into bite-size pieces. (Reserve dark meat for another use.)
- Skim chicken fat from top of broth and set aside. Place 3 tablespoons of the fat in a soup pot with a lid. Add leeks, stir to coat, and heat over medium heat until leeks begin to fry. Then reduce the heat to a gentle sizzle and cook, stirring often, until slightly softened, about 3 minutes.
- Add carrots, sprinkle with salt, stir, and cover the pot. Cook until vegetables are just tender, about 5 minutes more. (Keep in mind that vegetables will continue to cook in the soup.) Do not brown.
- Pour broth into pot with vegetables and heat to a simmer. Add noodles and simmer until heated through, soft and plumped with chicken broth. Add the breast meat, then taste broth and add salt and pepper to taste. For best flavor, soup should have some golden droplets of fat on top; if needed, add more chicken fat one teaspoon at a time.
- Serve immediately, in a tureen or from the pot, sprinkling each serving with herbs.
HEALING CHICKEN SOUP
Boost your immune system with this Healing Chicken Soup! Made with a feel-good homemade chicken stock and adaptogens, your body will be ready to take on flu season after just 1 bowl.
Provided by Silvia Dunnirvine
Categories Soup
Time 3h30m
Number Of Ingredients 16
Steps:
- Add chicken to a large stock pot. Fill about 3/4 of the pot with filtered water. Bring to a boil
- Start to add in all the veggies and seasonings, except for the 5 carrots we are reserving for later. Use the peel of the reserved carrots as well as any vegetable scraps you might have in hand. Since all these vegetables will be later on removed from the stock, don't worry about what they look like. Our goal is to build a delicious and healing homemade chicken stock.
- Simmer on medium-low heat for 2-3 hours.
- Transfer chicken to a plate and pick through to remove bones, skins, and unwanted parts. Separate the meat from these unwanted parts as best as you can. The goal is to end up with a decent amount of clean chicken meat to be added back into the soup. Reserve meat.
- Using a slotted spoon remove all the vegetables. Once the solids are mostly removed pass the remaining broth through a sieve to collect all remaining solids.
- Transfer clean broth back to the pot and bring back to a simmer. Add the clean chicken meat and carrot slices. Cover and simmer for about 15 minutes or until the carrots are cooked.
- When done, add in fresh parsley and juice from lemon. Stir and serve.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 65 kcal, Carbohydrate 15 g, Protein 2 g, Fat 1 g, SaturatedFat 1 g, Cholesterol 1 mg, Sodium 644 mg, Fiber 4 g, Sugar 6 g, UnsaturatedFat 2 g, ServingSize 1 serving
CHICKEN SOUP TO DIE FOR
Make and share this Chicken Soup to Die For recipe from Food.com.
Provided by Iceman _ 142
Categories Chicken
Time 1h30m
Yield 12 bowls
Number Of Ingredients 8
Steps:
- Place breast in stock pot and cover with water. Just about a gallon and a half.
- place on stove on medium heat and raise to ALMOST simmering. Turn down heat to simmer.
- As the water warms to simmer, you will see the blood and other fluids from the meat come to the top of the pot and float. Use a big table spoon, or any large serving spoon and carefully skim off all the brown foam. This might take 30 minute of careful watching.DO NOT LET BOIL! Believe me it's worth it! Removing all this "dirt" as my Grandma used to call it really "cleans" the taste of the soup.
- After all the skim has been removed, try to leave the yellow fat pools on top of the soup, thats where the flavor is.
- Add your peeled and sliced carrots, sliced celery and quarterd onion to stock and bring to a full boil for 20 minutes.
- reduce to simmer, add boulion cubes and Dill, cover and simmer for another 30 minutes.
- Add salt and pepper to taste.
- Cook your favorite noodles and serve.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 105.3, Fat 4.7, SaturatedFat 1.3, Cholesterol 31, Sodium 186.2, Carbohydrate 4.9, Fiber 1.3, Sugar 2.4, Protein 10.7
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