How much to cook chicken soup?
Cook chicken soup for 1 hour.
Chicken Soup Recipe
Food in a 3 liter potChicken - 400 grams
Onion - 1 large onion
Carrots - 2 medium pieces
Garlic - 2 cloves
Potato - 2 large potatoes
Vermicelli - 2 tablespoons
Vegetable oil - 2 tablespoons
Salt - 1 level tablespoon
Pepper peas - for a shade of pungency - 5 pieces, for a pungent taste - 10-15 pieces
Greens - to taste (parsley, dill)
How to cook
- Pour 2 liters of water into a 3-liter saucepan and put on fire.
- Wash the chicken, inspect the skin for the remains of feathers, and put in a saucepan, add lavrushka, peppercorns, salt.
- Bring to a boil and cook for 40 minutes, during this time any chicken meat will cook and the broth will become moderately fat. If you cook for longer, the broth will become more and more rich, and the meat, accordingly, will be softer.
- When the broth is cooked, strain it so that the peppers and spices do not get into the plates, return to the pan and over the fire.
- Put the chicken on a wide plate, cool for 5-10 minutes and disassemble: leave the meat, remove to taste or leave the cartilage and skin. Chop the edible parts and return to the boiling broth.
- While the water is boiling again, peel and cut the potatoes into soup.
- Peel and chop the onions, garlic and carrots, the easiest option is to throw them raw directly into the soup, but you can also fry in oil. Place in soup 10 minutes after placing the potatoes.
- Lay the vermicelli.
- Serve with fresh chopped herbs, sour cream and white bread.
Fusofacts
What kind of chicken to take for soup- or 3 thighs weighing 150 grams each, for a rich soup with a high meat content
- or 4 wings weighing 100 grams each, for fatty but not very meaty soup
- or, for dietary soup, 1 fillet weighing 300 grams, for not very dietary - fillet with skin
- or chicken legs - 5-6 pieces depending on the size
- or a quarter of a whole small chicken
What you can avoid in chicken soup
You don't need to add potatoes to the soup, but keep in mind that then the soup will be less nutritious, and therefore it is better to replace the potatoes with something.Add a little more carrots and noodles to the chicken soup, and when the soup is cooked, place the hard-boiled chicken eggs on the bowls. You can also omit the noodles, replacing it with rice - 3 tablespoons of rice with a slide is enough for a 3 liter saucepan - better than round grain.
How to make chicken soup tastier
Chicken soup perfectly combines sweetish vegetables - broccoli cabbage, bell peppers, tomato, leeks, zucchini - they can be chopped and added to vegetables when fried or directly into the soup in 10-15 minutes. You can also add celery and sorrel.
To make chicken soup a complete and very nutritious dish, add 100 grams of melted cheese 2 minutes before cooking ends. Instead of vermicelli, you can use homemade noodles or even make dumplings.
What kind of chicken to take for soup
Chicken with skin and bones is perfect for soup: the skin will give the broth fat content and nutritional value, the bones will have aroma, and the meat from the bone parts of the chicken will be the softest. But for a diet, you can cook fillet soup, or use the same bone parts of the chicken, but with a larger volume of water.
How to serve chicken soup
It is delicious to serve sour cream, white croutons (directly in the soup or in a bite), herbs and even fresh lemon juice on the table with chicken soup. Toast with cheese is perfect for a snack.
Last update Author / Editor - Lydia Ivanova