I have a sickly friend in need of a soup recipe and doesn't like cans do you have something easy?

Answer 1

Wow these are all good (even the brick for the rich one).

Here is what I do:

4 cups water
5 chicken bullion cubes (or 4 cups chicken broth, bullion cubes are least expensive)
1 chicken breast 8 oz or larger - cut up
1/2 cup veggies of current mood
small handful of Orzo (it is a guess thing)

Warm water with bullion and chicken to simmer. Simmer for as long as you wish. The longer the more tender the chicken. 45 minutes is good enough tho.

Add veggies and Orzo cover and simmer for another 15 minutes. Voila, chicken soup. I keep some frozen in the freezer for those cold emergencies.

:)

Answer 2

2 cups of chicken broth, whatever vegetables he/she likes (chopped), and a hand full of instant rice or some pasta. If you have any chicken around, chop some up and toss that in the pot also. Heat the whole mess up.

Season how you like it - with salt, pepper, garlic, season salt, thyme, whatever you take a fancy to.

Chicken soup has ACTUALLY been proven to help you when you are feeling poorly.

Researchers found evidence that the broth has anti-inflammatory properties that aid in soothing your sore throat and helping to stop the movement of neutrophils (white blood cells that encourage the flow of mucus that accumulates in the lungs and nose).

Also In another study, researchers at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, found that chicken soup also may prevent congestion in the lungs. Even in diluted amounts, chicken soup inhibits the ability of certain white blood cells to participate in the body's inflammatory response, which is involved in some cold symptoms, such as irritated airways and phlegm production.

Homemade is better than canned, but use what you got. My homemade broth recipe is similar to this one:

http://www.rd.com/content/openContent.do?contentId=19083

Answer 3

HOMEMADE EGG NOODLES

EGG NOODLES:
3 cups flour
1/2 tsp salt
4 eggs, at room temperature
1/3 cup water

Put flour, salt and eggs in a large bowl. Using your hand, mix together, adding 1 tbsp water at a time and mixing until dough forms a ball.

Place dough on a well-floured board and knead until smooth and elastic, about 8-10 minutes. Cover and let sit for 15 minutes.

Cut dough into 4 equal parts; keep covered. Roll 1 part of dough at a time until desired thickness is reached (about 1/16th of an inch). Roll dough around rolling pin and slip rolling pin out. Cut in 1/2 to 1/8-inch strips and shake out on a towel to dry, for about 2 hours. While noodles are drying, make soup.





Basic Vegetable Stock


Original recipe yield: 6 cups.
Prep Time:15 Minutes
Cook Time:35 Minutes
Ready In:50 Minutes
Servings:12

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INGREDIENTS:
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 large onion
2 stalks celery, including some leaves
2 large carrots
1 bunch green onions, chopped
8 cloves garlic, minced
8 sprigs fresh parsley
6 sprigs fresh thyme
2 bay leaves
1 teaspoon salt
2 quarts water


thanks Raynanne for the beef and chicken broth recipies

Answer 4

All soup is easy.

Bring a pot to boil.
Add vegetable (whatever you like).
Add Tumeric, salt, pepper.
I always add garlic.
Add meat (or not), whatever you like.
Add butter (just a bit).
Boil for, umm, 1 hour.

Serve in bowl with spoon.

I kid you not, it is that easy. Check the web, there are many many sites with free recipes. Some soup recipes manage to complicate the wonderfully simple thing that is soup. Read a lot of the recipes however and you'll begin to see my point. Soup is just boiled stuff.

Answer 5

You can't go wrong with homemade chicken soup. It's delicious, and is proven to speed up recovery of sickness because of the properties inside the chicken and it's broth.

There are many kinds of chicken soups out there, but a basic one just contains chicken broth, bits of cooked chicken, and noodles. Just cook the noodles (Egg noodles work great) in the broth, and once cooked add the chicken, simmer till the chicken is warm.

That's just a quick one, but really good chicken soup requires slow cooking and the use of a large pot, or crockpot.

Answer 6

DW's Fresh Healer Soup

Quantities are fairly rough, but...

1lb chicken wings
1 oz unsalted butter
2 large Spanish/REALLY strong onions, finely chopped
1 large carrot, finely chopped
2oz button mushrooms, finely sliced
2 sticks celery, finely shredded
3fl oz (ish) white wine or cider
bouquet garni (thyme, bay leaf and celery leaves)
1 leek, finely sliced
salt and freshly ground black pepper
large bunch of fresh parsley
Generous shake of tabasco
Generous shake of Worcestershire Sauce (Lea & Perrin's)

Whack the chicken wings into a casserole, pour over cold water just to cover and bring to the boil on a high heat. As soon as the water boils, skim off any impurities that may have risen to the surface, lift out the wings and cool them under running water. Pat dry.

On a medium heat, melt the butter, add the chicken wings, onions, garlic, carrots, celery, mushrooms and sauces and cook for 15 minutes.

Turn the heat up, pour in the wine, bring to the boil and reduce by half. Pour over cold water to cover by 1 inch, bring to the boil and skim off any impurities that may have risen to the surface. Add the bouquet garni, and simmer very gently for 30 minutes.

Add the leek and continue simmering very gently for another 15 minutes. Turn off the heat; season if necessary (if you want to strip-mine your body and defeat bugs, add as much Tabasco as you can stand), add the parsley and leave to stand for 20 minutes.

Sieve and then, if you have some, run it through muslin. It can be eaten straight away, or left to cool and kept in an airtight container in the fridge.

For a more substantial "ramen"-type dish, add cooked shredded chicken, thin egg noodles and finely shredded greens 5 minutes from time. Chuck in some beansprouts and finely chopped chilli for last 30 seconds. Season with soy sauce instead of salt & pepper.

Answer 7

How about pea n' ham soup ?
1 ham hock
1 bacon bone
1 pkt ( 350 grm? ) dried peas ..... the ones that go mushy with boiling.
stick the lot in a large pot with lots of water add salt n' pepper n' bring to the boil n' simmer for about 6 hours.
Remove bones n' meat n' put the rest through a blender, cream well, after stripping meat from the bones put meat back in n' bring back to heat.
serve with lebanese bread topped with tasty cheese and grilled to your perfection.
N' you don't have to be sick to enjoy it either. :)

Answer 8

Chicken Broth
Veggies (preferably frozen if you can't get fresh)
Chopped Chicken Breast
Spices (salt, pepper, other) to taste
Pasta such as egg noodles

Answer 9

Pot of water. Get some big rocks or little rocks. Maybe some bricks if youre rich. Boil.