Chicken soup - how do I make it (merged threads)

melancholly

thank you!
i'm a big fan of rice in chicken soup, but i also have a bag on lentils lingering in the cupboard so i might throw some of them in too!

sophistica

I reckon my recipe is the simplest! I cover the chicken carcasss with water, add a some large chunks of chopped carrot, celery and quartered onions, a stock cube and a few cloves. Let it simmer until the chicken is falling to pieces - a couple of hours. I then add sliced mushrooms and egg noodles. Then I add frozen peas. I pick out most of the bones before I add the mushrooms - otherwise just leave them on the side of the soup bowl.

elljay20

ok everyone. Have successfully made my lentil soup - it's yummy!! and i have loads to put in the freezer. Tomorrow i'm going to have a bash at chicken soup. I have the chicken and stock. Just wondering what else to put in with it. I was thinking parsnip and potato - What else?? Onion? Also last time i made it it was really salty so wasn't very nice. Am i correct in thinking that it's because everytime it boiled down and needed more liquid i added more stock instead of just hot water?
All help gratefully received!

mookybargirl

Wow, had a quick look in the recipe index and there's no chicken soup recipe, how odd????

Hopefully someone can give you some advice soon, I'm one of these people that really needs a recipe to follow - sowwwy

elljay20

where is the recepie index anyway? I couldn't find it earlier.

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Hi elljay,

Links to the recipe Index can be found in either the Mega Index sticky or in the Indexed collections in the blue bar at the top of the Old Style board.

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mookybargirl

It's taken me about a month before I got used to going in there! :rotfl:

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I think chicken soup can mean different things to different people. In my house it is soup mix (barley, peas, lentils) simmered in stock. When they are cooked I add carrots, leeks, parsley, celery a couple of chopped up chicken breasts and black pepper. Simmer until the chicken and all the veg are cooked through.

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elljay20

I have just bought some pearl barley today so i think i'll put some of that in it too. Does it kind of expand when your cooking it as i've never used it before.
I was thinking pearl barley chicken stock, parsnip, potato and chicken kind of shreaded off the cooked chicken i have here. Should i put carrot in it?

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elljay20 wrote:

I have just bought some pearl barley today so i think i'll put some of that in it too. Does it kind of expand when your cooking it as i've never used it before.
I was thinking pearl barley chicken stock, parsnip, potato and chicken kind of shreaded off the cooked chicken i have here. Should i put carrot in it?

Yes the barley does expand....it probably doubles in size. What you have planned sounds good. I would add the carrot but again it's down to personal choice.

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