Need a homemade chicken soup recipe

[NinetyOne]

Basicly my mum used to make the best chicken soup when i was a kid but recently she passed away and she never showed me how to make it, like a lot of her recipes i never got to make note of them, she was a chef naturally as her career and to her family.

So guess Im asking if there is anyone out there who can make a nice homemade chicken soup

 

[Jonny69]

Get a chicken carcass, either from the roast or a chicken you've jointed up. If it's from the roast then pick all the meat off and put it aside. Cover the carcass with a litre of boiling water, a whole onion and a whole carrot (or snapped up so it fits in the pot). Let it simmer for about 2 hours, topping up with water if necessary. Then strain it and throw away the bits. The stock is the basis for your soup.

Add to that raw diced carrot, potato, pearl barley and the meat you pulled from the carcass and let it simmer for half an hour. Season it with salt and pepper. You can either serve it as it is, partially blitz it to thicken it or thicken it with cornflour.

Chicken and sweetcorn soup like you get from the Chinese is easy too. Use the same stock, add sweetcorn, chicken, soy sauce to taste and thicken it with quite a lot of cornflour

 

[Xelene]

As above, take a carcass and boil it in a big pan. Add roughly chopped Onion, Carrot & Celery and simmer away for a couple of hours to make stock. With the stock use some black pepper, noodles, bits of left over roasted chicken etc and you have a nice hearty soup.

 

[NinetyOne]

Thanks gave it a go tonight turned out pretty good if i don't say so myself

 

[bsoltan]

We will literally put any leftovers in our soup.

It starts from the same base, a leftover roast chicken, onion, celery, carrot etc.

From there you can go wherever you like, ours has had all kinds of leftover veg in, leftover gravy (from the roast) etc. My Dad likes to put in some turmeric and lemon juice too.

To bulk it out you can go with potato or split peas or barley, or small pasta shapes (like you get in alphabet spaghetti tins), or just broken up pieces of regular spaghtti.

I love it. Serve with some crusty bread, plenty of pepper, Mmmm.

 

[K.C. Leblanc]

Chicken and sweetcorn soup like you get from the Chinese is easy too. Use the same stock, add sweetcorn, chicken, soy sauce to taste and thicken it with quite a lot of cornflour

And White Wine Vinegar in Chilli if you want to go down the Hot and Sour route.

OFF TOPIC, JohnnyCakes, is that a Daria reference?

 

[G|mp]

Had roast chicken tonight so I'm going to give your version a bash tomorrow Jonny