CHICKEN SOUP
RECIPE CREATED FOR YAHOO! LIFESTYLE
If you were a real hipster, you would call this a “bone broth” but really, its just a soup. Nourishing, flavourful and perfect as a way to add flavour to curries, tagines, casseroles without the packet stuff!
Making this soup is a bit of an art, its not an exact recipe, basically all you need is water and chicken and then whatever else you throw in there will add / develop the flavour.
Prep 00:15
Cook 03:00
Easy
WHAT’S IN IT?
1 x 1.2kg whole organic chicken / 1.2kg chicken feet / 1.2 kg chicken carcases or a mix of these
1 tbs Cobram Estate extra virgin olive oil
1 brown onion, roughly chopped
2 medium carrots, roughly chopped
2 stalks celery, roughly chopped
1 whole head garlic, cut in half
5 cm knob ginger, roughly chopped
2 star anise
8 pepper corns
Soft herbs - whatever you may have leftover in the fridge
Anything else that is looking a bit rough in your fridge
PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER:
Step 1. In a large pot* over medium high add the onion, carrot, celery, garlic and ginger. Cook until vegetables are aromatic. Season with salt.
Step 2. Add chicken and cover fully with water. Bring water to the boil (this may take up to half an hour), add any of your soft herbs at this stage and reduce heat to a slow simmer cooking for 3 hour or until chicken is cooked.
Step 3. Once cooked and cooled slightly strain off soup using a strainer lined with a clean chux. This will give you a base soup recipe that you can do so many things with.
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Recipe notes and tips:
* You pot will need to be big enough to hold a whole chicken plus liquid.
