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Food & crafts => Recipes => Topic started by: lord flynn on October 01, 2014, 02:36:18 pm

Title: wanted-idiot proof chicken soup recipe
Post by: lord flynn on October 01, 2014, 02:36:18 pm
I can't make good chicken soup :( I've tried so many recipes and they are all bogging. I would like a nice, thick chicken soup please-thickened with something gluten free (can cope with corn flour if thats helpful).

I make really good vegetable soup, I make really good chicken stock, I am not a bad cook but I cannot make chicken soup-please help!
Title: Re: wanted-idiot proof chicken soup recipe
Post by: nutterly_uts on October 01, 2014, 03:30:55 pm
The way I make it doesn't do quantities but has a rough "recipe".

Bit of butter in the bottom of a saucepan. Add a little bit of cut up bacon and fry it for a few mins. Add onion/leek and a clove of garlic and fry until soft. Add in chicken stock, some herbs and rest of veg (potato, carrot, swede, cabbage etc) and some chopped up/pulled chicken. Bring to boil, then simmer for a few hours. Taste and add in salt/pepper if needed and then blend around 1/2 of it before eating :)
Title: Re: wanted-idiot proof chicken soup recipe
Post by: doganjo on October 01, 2014, 03:40:14 pm
Buy ready chopped and prepared mixed veg from supermarket, cook in microwave 8 minutes in bag.  Put in pan with two chicken stock pots or cubes and a pint of boiling water, mix, boil 5 minutes , whizz up a bit to thicken but leave some bite sized bits of veg. Delicious and quick  add salt and pepper if needed, and some home made chunky bread!  :excited:
Title: Re: wanted-idiot proof chicken soup recipe
Post by: devonlady on October 02, 2014, 10:13:34 am
A couple of spuds will act as a good thickener.
Title: Re: wanted-idiot proof chicken soup recipe
Post by: lord flynn on October 02, 2014, 12:03:16 pm
should have said, can't eat potatoes :) can eat sweet potatoes (but kind of sick of them tbh).
Title: Re: wanted-idiot proof chicken soup recipe
Post by: funkyfish on October 07, 2014, 01:41:35 pm
prefect for me as cant eat potatoess either- I try and eat FODMAP friendly...
Title: Re: wanted-idiot proof chicken soup recipe
Post by: doganjo on October 07, 2014, 04:13:01 pm
Tatties not needed - veggies whizzed up thicken it enough.