how to make chicken soup?

Question

using a chicken carcass how do you make a simple soup

Answer 1

Boil your carcass for an hour or two and drain off the stock.Chop up carrots turnip and onion and add to stock with some rice and simmer for another hour or two you can add some leek and parsley if you like.Quantities depend on size of the pan you use but go easy with the rice as it can go gluey if you put in too much.

Answer 2

Get a chicken. A whole chicken. Try to shoot for 5 pounds. I usually end up with around 3.5 pounds when I get a nice natural chicken from a healthy-type grocery store.

If it's been cooked already (preferably roasted) strip off the (remaining) meat. Cover the carcass and giblets with either 12 cups of water or 8 cups of canned stock.

If you haven't cooked the meat ahead of time, cook the meat on the chicken for 30 minutes or so. Take the whole thing out, strip all the meat off, and return the chicken bones and etc. to the pot.

Cook that mother for at least 3 hours. If you can cook it longer, go for it. Keep the flame low. I've woken up to find burned seared bones. Don't add water after the cooking is in progress though - I once did that and ended up with a no-so-satisfying watery soup stock.

After this much time, the bones and cartiledge will have mostly broken down. You'll want to strain the liquid through some kind of mesh or sieve. The remaining liquid should be thick, rich, warm, and naturally buttery. Some folks say to skim the fat off. Do it if you can figure it out. When I have to worry seriously about my arteries, I'll scoop it off the top too. Or maybe I'll buy one of those fat separator/pouring devices.

Now that stock can be used for anything that calls for stock; I like to make a hearty hearty chicken soup out of it.

- 2 cups medium egg noodles
- 2 carrots, cut into half-rounds
- 2 onions, cut in halfinch cubes
- 2 celery ribs, chopped
- 1 leek, use the white part, chopped into half rounds
- 1 turnip, peeled and cubed
- 1 parsnip, peeled and cubed
- a few cloves of garlic, either smashed or chopped up
- Salt and Pepper

Cook the noodles separate with some salt maybe.

Put all the veggies and soup stock into a large saucepan. Simmer until the vegetables loosen up a bit. You can add some dill and some parsley, I generally don't bother.

Add some salt, the noodles and the pre-cooked chicken. Don't let it cook too long, just get it warm and mix the flavors.

I usually feed two or three folks, and put a few servings into the freezer with this recipe. Often I have added so much stuff that there isn't much spare broth - it's more like a stew than a soup. Fine by me! I hope you enjoy it!

Answer 3

1 (3 pound) whole chicken
4 carrots, halved
4 stalks celery, halved
1 large onion, halved
water to cover
salt and pepper to taste
1 teaspoon chicken bouillon granules (optional)

Put the chicken, carrots, celery and onion in a large soup pot and cover with cold water. Heat and simmer, uncovered, until the chicken meat falls off of the bones (skim off foam every so often).
Take everything out of the pot. Strain the broth. Pick the meat off of the bones and chop the carrots, celery and onion. Season the broth with salt, pepper and chicken bouillon to taste, if desired. Return the chicken, carrots, celery and onion to the pot, stir together, and serve.
*may add noodles in the end

Answer 4

in the first place take off the skin of the chicken parts (legs etc.) and start ti boil it in cold water with an onion picked with 4 or five clous de girofles , one leave of laurier and some fresh garlic. wait untill the water boil and take off the residu on the surface. let it boil on small fire for about 30 minutes and take the chicken parts out of the casserole . chope the carrotes, persily, etc into littles pieces and put this into the bouillon and have it cooked for about 10 minutes . add the choped chicken into the bouillon for about 5 minutes and add some fresh persely. salt and pepper is at your taste. philippe from holland

Answer 5

Simple Soup? Boil the chickens brains, doesnt have an IQ, how simple can you get

Answer 6

you can make one called caldo de pollo it is so good....boil the chicken, add potatoes, carrots and spices.....debone chicken serve with jalapeno and onions diced and a little lime it is really really good!

Answer 7

1 fresh chicken (feathers optional)

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