Souper Chicken Soup Recipes

Steps:

• Place the chicken, celery, carrots, onions, parsnip (if using), parsley, peppercorns, bay leaves and salt in a large soup pot and cover with cold water by 1 inch.
• Bring to a boil over high heat, then immediately reduce the heat to very low. Adjust the heat until the soup is "smiling": barely moving on the surface, with an occasional bubble breaking through. Cook uncovered, until the chicken is very tender and falling off the bone, 1 to 1 1/2 hours.
• When cool enough to handle, use tongs to transfer chicken from the pot to a container. Taste the broth and continue to simmer it until it is concentrated and tasty. Strain broth through a fine sieve (or a colander lined with cheesecloth) into a separate container. Discard all the solids from the strainer (or reserve the vegetables, chill and serve with vinaigrette, if you wish).
• Refrigerate chicken pieces and broth separately for at least 8 hours (or up to 3 days), until a thick layer of yellow fat has risen to the top of the broth.
• When ready to finish the soup, use your fingers to separate chicken breast meat from bones and skin. Discard bones and skin. Use two forks to pull the breast meat apart into soft chunks, or use a knife and cut into bite-size pieces. (Reserve dark meat for another use.)
• Skim chicken fat from top of broth and set aside. Place 3 tablespoons of the fat in a soup pot with a lid. Add leeks, stir to coat, and heat over medium heat until leeks begin to fry. Then reduce the heat to a gentle sizzle and cook, stirring often, until slightly softened, about 3 minutes.
• Add carrots, sprinkle with salt, stir, and cover the pot. Cook until vegetables are just tender, about 5 minutes more. (Keep in mind that vegetables will continue to cook in the soup.) Do not brown.
• Pour broth into pot with vegetables and heat to a simmer. Add noodles and simmer until heated through, soft and plumped with chicken broth. Add the breast meat, then taste broth and add salt and pepper to taste. For best flavor, soup should have some golden droplets of fat on top; if needed, add more chicken fat one teaspoon at a time.
• Serve immediately, in a tureen or from the pot, sprinkling each serving with herbs.

Steps:

• In a large Dutch oven heat the oil. add the next 8 items; sauté over medium heat until vegetables begin to soften.Add the chicken broth, soup granules and chicken. Bring to a boil.Just before serving add parsley and cinnamon.Remove bay leaf.Place lemon slice on each serving.
• If using option #2- Blend the butter and flour together. Then gradually add it to the soup mixture. Simmer 10 minutes more, stirring frequently. Beat the egg yolks until light color. Gradually add some of the hot soup to the yolks stirring constantly.Add Romano cheese to mixture then return all the mixture to the soup pot and heat through .If you like add one of the items from option #1 and simmer until cooked through. Just before serving add parsley and cinnamon and remove bay leaf. Place lemon slice on each serving.

Steps:

• Put the bones and carcass from a leftover chicken (they can be in pieces) in a large pot. Cover with the broth and 4 cups water. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat, reduce to a simmer and cook for 20 minutes. Skim any foam or fat from the broth with a ladle as necessary.
• Remove the bones and carcass with tongs or a slotted spoon; set aside to cool. Add the carrots, celery, onion and bay leaf to the broth, bring back to a simmer and cook until the vegetables are about half cooked (they will still have resistance when tested with a knife but be somewhat pliable when bent), about 10 minutes. Stir in the rice (to keep it from sticking to the bottom), and cook until the grains are just al dente, 10 to 12 minutes.
• Meanwhile, when the carcass and bones are cool enough to handle, pick off the meat, and shred it into bite-size pieces.
• When the rice is done, add the meat to the broth and simmer until warmed through, about 1 minute. Stir in the parsley, and season with 1/2 teaspoon salt or more to taste. Serve hot.

Steps:

• Bring chicken, water, and 1 tablespoon salt to a boil in a large stockpot. Skim foam. Add onions, celery, and garlic. Reduce heat. Simmer, partially covered, for 30 minutes.
• Remove breast, and set aside. Add carrots. Simmer, partially covered, for 40 minutes.
• Remove remaining chicken; discard back and wings. Let cool slightly. Remove meat from bones, and cut into bite-size pieces.
• Stir in desired amount of chicken; reserve the rest for another use. Skim fat. Season with salt.

Steps:

• Season chicken breasts with salt and pepper.
• Roast chicken breasts with large chunk-veggies in a large dutch at 400°F until done, 35-45 minutes.
• Remove chicken from pan and cool.
• Remove meat from breasts and reserve.
• Place skin and bones back into the dutch oven.
• Place pan back on stove over a medium heat, stirring occasionally until contents are well browned.
• Add small amount of water to pan and bring to a boil, stir to remove all brown bits from the bottom of the pan.
• Add remaining water and peppercorns, bring to a boil, reduce to simmer and cook, partially covered, for 1 1/2 - 2 hours.
• Skim as required.
• Add more water if level gets too low.
• You can add any other herbs that you like at this time.
• I like thyme and basil, but nothing is required.
• Remove dutch oven from heat, skim fat off surface and strain liquid into a soup pot.
• Place soup pot over medium heat and bring stock to a boil.
• Add chopped veggies and parsley and lower heat to maintain a good rolling boil.
• Cook for 15-20 minutes, or until veggies are tender and sweet.
• Lower heat to simmer.
• Adjust water to suit your own tastes add more if you want more, weaker, broth.
• If desired add some frozen vegetables at this time.
• A bit of corn and lima beans are good, While the veggies are boiling chop reserved chicken and prepare your noodles.
• Add chicken to pot and stir.
• Don't add the chicken too early or it will be shredded.
• Adjust seasoning.
• Place noodles or rice in bottom of a soup bowl, ladle a generous amount of soup over it.
• Don't add your rice/pasta to the main soup bowl--it will quickly over cook and become mush (and ruin all your leftovers!).

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300°F.
• Mix soups and wine.
• Pour over chicken
• Cover and bake for 2 1/2 hours
• Thicken sauce with cornstarch and water if you want gravy
• If you want stew, add some onions, carrots, frozen peas etc. 30 minutes before it is done.

Steps:

• 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.