Yogurt Soup With Poached Chicken Rissoles
- 5 1/2 cups chicken or veal stock
- 1/4 pound boneless cooked chicken meat
- 1 medium-size onion
- 1 teaspoon dried mint
- 1 13 cups cooked long-grain rice
- 2 eggs and 1 egg yolk
- Approximately 1/4 cup unseasoned bread crumbs, if necessary
- 3/4 cup very finely minced parsley
- 1 1/4 cups plain, unflavored yogurt
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
- In a soup kettle over low heat, bring stock to a gentle simmer.
- Chop chicken meat and onion coarsely.
- Place in bowl of food processor with dried mint and process briefly to mince and blend together, or chop by hand until finely minced together.
- Blend chicken with rice.
- Add one whole egg and mix together well.
- If the mixture seems too liquid, add enough bread crumbs to give it a consistency that will hold together.
- Form chicken into small, walnut-sized balls or rissoles.
- In a small bowl, beat second whole egg with a tablespoon of water.
- Spread minced parsley on a plate.
- Dip rissoles in the egg wash and then roll in parsley to coat well.
- With stock at a gentle simmer, lower the coated rissoles into it and poach approximately 15 minutes.
- (Most of the parsley should adhere.)
- When done, transfer rissoles to a warm soup tureen.
- Keep stock hot, but just below boiling.
- Beat yogurt and 1 egg yolk together until thoroughly mixed.
- Continuing to stir, add hot stock, a ladleful at a time, until the mixture is quite warm.
- Over low heat, stir yogurt-egg mixture into the hot broth.
- Taste, and add salt and pepper if necessary.
- Let warm to serving temperature but do not boil.
- Pour over the chicken balls and serve immediately.
chicken, chicken meat, onion, mint, rice, eggs, bread crumbs, parsley, unflavored yogurt, salt
Taken from cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/9963 (may not work)