HUNGARIAN "OLD SCHOOL" CHICKEN SOUP

Hungarian

Provided by Trish Christopher

Number Of Ingredients 11

1 whole chicken cut up
1 bunch parsnip greens- tied together with thread
10 clove fresh garlic peeled
6 lg-med. carrots peeled and cut up
1 large whole onion- only skin removed and ends cut off
4 celery stalks- cleaned and chopped
3 parsnips-peeled and chopped
2 small potatoes peeled and left whole
salt to taste
pepper to taste
hungarian red paprika- for color and taste

Steps:

1. Set up a large pot of water to boil chicken in once it's cut up. I do not use the wings. Add chicken to water and bring to a rapid boil for about a good 30 mins. Skim the foam off of the top of the soup broth and discard. Keep doing this til the chicken stops produceing the foam.
2. Once the foam is gone, add the parsnip greens,garlic,paprika,onion,salt and pepper to taste. Bring down to a slow boil for about 1 1/2 hours.
3. Once the onion starts getting soft, add the carrots, parsnips and celery and continue to slow boil until veggies start to get soft, then add the potatoes, this is when I remove the chicken from the soup and debone and skin the meat. You can add all the meat back to the soup when the potatoes are done and serve over large noodles or the small thin soup noodles, which ever you prefer. *NEVER ADD NOODLES TO SOUP TO COOK* Please boil them in a different pot. Keep noodles seperate in a bowl. Enjoy!!