Chicken Soup
- 1 chicken carcass, from a roast chicken
- 3 cup leftover roast chicken meat
- 3 medium to large carrots
- 1 or 2 bouquet garni - see the tip attached to the recipe direction photo
- 1 vegetable stock pot (optional)
- 2 cup linguine, broken into 3
- 1 A few good pinches of sea salt flakes
- After roasting the chicken, remove any leftover meat and reserve in a tuppaware box in the fridge.
- Put carcass and any skin into a medium large pot and cover with water.
- Bring to the boil and simmer for 2 hours.
- Top up the water whenever it evaporates too much.
- Turn off heat and allow to cool.
- Pass stock through a muslin or tea towel tucked into a sieve into a large enough lidded container (you want to have about a quart of stock, maybe a little more)
- Refridgerate overnight, if possible.
- When ready to make the soup, make your bouquet garni...
- Take the lid off the stock and skim off any fat from the top.
- Pour stock into a large pot.
- Peel and slice carrots and add to the pot.
- Add the bouquet garni.
- Bring the pot to the boil, then simmer for 10 minutes.
- Remove the bouquet garni.
- Melt the stock pot into tge broth, if using.
- Add the linguine and cook for a further 10 minutes.
- Add the chicken, season to taste with salt, then serve in bowl.
- It will be very hot, so maybe let cool a little before eating.
chicken carcass, leftover roast chicken meat, carrots, bouquet garni, vegetable stock, linguine, salt
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/343298-chicken-soup (may not work)