Get Better Chicken Soup

A delicious but light broth with great country flavors.

Get better chicken soup.

Too many chicken soup recipes and a shocking number of chicken stock recipes call for simmering raw chicken in water to produce the soup base. Your basic chicken soup recipe found in most general cook books. We ll get to that in a moment but for starters all you need to know is that stock is made from. Adding to the confusion is a hazy understanding of the difference between broth and stock and a tendency among recipe writers to conflate these terms.

Instead sometimes i make it with fresh chicken and store bought chicken broth like i did for this recipe. If you ve never cooked with rice noodles let s take a quick pause. Reduce heat to medium low and simmer uncovered and stirring occasionally until rice. Bring chicken rice garlic ginger and 5 cups water to a boil in a large saucepan.

Frequently asked questions faq s what chicken is the best for chicken soup. I love to make homemade stock using a whole chicken in order to enjoy the benefits of real bone broth but sometimes i don t have enough time to do it that way. Serve in large bowls with fresh crusty rye bread. Thai chicken noodle soup courtesy of katie workman mom 100.

You ll want a whole hen for this recipe. Cooking time will differ depending on the chicken you use but cook for about 5 minutes before adding the noodles. There is nothing hard. Comfort food but on the lighter side.

You can also add raw chicken thighs breasts or tenders right to the boiling broth in step 3 before adding the noodles. Get well chicken soup is pretty much liquid medicine that tastes good when you re under the weather. Remove the little bag and the neck from the cavity of the bird and give the whole thing a rinse before adding it to the pot. Any leftovers of this soup can be strained and used as chicken stock.

A great way to get more meals from one chicken. Add a big pinch of salt. Ingredients that make eyes water and noses run turn out to be very useful in relieving cold and flu symptoms so chicken soup made with hot pungent additions works better than recipes that are more bland that explains the fair amount of heat in this recipe which can be assembled quickly even by someone who is feeling pretty rotten better yet get someone to make it for you sip this. Using a rotisserie chicken is my recommended method because you can use the meat for the soup and the bones to make homemade chicken broth.