Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, wholesome chicken soup. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Wholesome Chicken Soup is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look wonderful. Wholesome Chicken Soup is something which I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook wholesome chicken soup using 19 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Wholesome Chicken Soup:
- Take 1.5 lbs chicken thigh meat, deboned and deskinned
- Take 5 whole peeled cloves garlic
- Take 1 large onion, quartered
- Make ready 2 carrots, cut into 1 inch pieces
- Make ready 2 celery stalk, cut into 2 inch pieces
- Get 4 whole shiitake mushrooms
- Make ready 5 peppercorns
- Take 4 bay leaves
- Make ready dash dried ginger powder
- Take 2 carrots cut into centimeter cubes
- Get 2 celery stalks cut into centimeter cubes
- Prepare 1/2 tsp turmeric
- Get 2 tsp soy sauce
- Take 1 tsp Worcestershire
- Prepare 1 tsp Chinese rice wine
- Take 1 tbsp butter
- Prepare 1 tsp salt
- Prepare to taste Pepper
- Take Sour cream to serve
Instructions to make Wholesome Chicken Soup:
- Take 1.5-2 lbs of chicken meat, preferably with a little bone or skin for fat/flavor (here I used 1.5 lbs of mostly cleaned chicken thighs) and fry in oil in a ceramic coated cast iron dutch oven (I love Lodge).
- Then add 4-5 cups of very warm water, 5 whole cloves of garlic, 1 large quartered onion, 2 carrots in 1"pieces, 2 celery stalks in 2" pieces, 4-5 whole shiitake mushrooms, 5 peppercorns, dash dried ginger powder, 4-5 bay leaves (I use large Indian ones), and bring to a boil.
- Once at a boil, reduce to a simmer for about 60 mins.
- After 60 mins, remove boiled carrot, celery and bay leaves and discard. Roughly chop the boiled onion and return to pan.
- Remove chicken, shred and remove any fat chunks and return to pan. Cut 2 carrots and 2 celery stalks into 1 cm^3 pieces and add to pan.
- Remove mushrooms, cut into quarters (and remove any remaining stem).
- Here I also add 1/2 tsp turmeric, 1-2 tsp soy sauce, 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce, 1 tsp Chinese rice wine, and a tbsp butter.
- Simmer soup until new carrot/celery pieces are tender. Add 1 tsp salt and several good cranks of pepper.
- Serve with dollop of sour cream.
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