You can’t do without hot soup. It warms in the winter, gives strength in the summer, is very useful for the stomach.
When cooking any meat soups, you need to follow some rules.
The meat is placed only in cold water, as it draws meat juice when heated. Hot water helps to quickly close the pores in the meat.
Do not salt the broth before removing the foam, and after boiling it is necessary to salt a little. It is better to add salt at the end of cooking. The broth will be transparent if it boils over low heat after boiling. If desired, onions or roots are placed in the broth to give color to the future soup.
Chicken soup is considered dietary. It is lighter than beef broth. Weakened patients are recommended chicken stock and chicken soup as a therapeutic food.
How to cook chicken soup? There are a lot of recipes. Chicken goes well with different foods. You can cook chicken soup with potatoes, or you can with any cereal filling (rice, pearl barley, millet), pasta or vegetable. It is good to have several types of chicken seasoning at home. On the basis of chicken broth, the hostess can dream up and create her own unique recipe. Here are some examples.
Recipe for Chicken Soup with Rice.
½ part of the chicken cut into slices, pour cold water. Bring to a boil and cook for one hour. 2 potatoes cut into cubes, lower into the broth. Rinse 100 g of rice, set in soup. Cook the frying pan in a pan. To do this, grate 1 carrot, finely chop 2 onions, chop 1 bell pepper into strips. Fry vegetables in oil (vegetable or melted), add to the broth. A few minutes before the end of cooking, pour ½ cup of kvass into the broth , add spices. Sprinkle with chopped herbs, remove from heat.
Recipe for chicken soup with onions.
From 400 g of chicken, cook the broth. Chop 4 onions and fry in 2 tablespoons butter until golden. Add 1 tablespoon of flour, and then lower the onion sauce into the broth. Season the soup with bay leaf. Grated cheese and chopped herbs immediately sprinkle on a plate.
The recipe for chicken soup with cabbage.
From 600 g of poultry to cook chicken broth, and cook the whole carrot in it. 4 potatoes cut into cubes, lower into a pan. ½ kg of peeled tomatoes, and then knead in a cup. Stew tomatoes with onions (2 pcs) in butter and broth (½ cup). Finely chop the fresh cabbage (¼ fork) and dip into the broth. After 10 minutes add tomatoes, salt, pepper, put bay leaf, chopped herbs. Before serving, season the soup with sour cream.
Recipe for mashed chicken soup.
Cook chicken stock from wings, neck, poultry legs. In a pan, fry chicken butter (about 150-200 g) with 1 onion in butter. Add 2/3 cups of the broth to the pan, simmer over low heat. Skip the contents of the pan through a meat grinder, mix with 1 cup of milk. Pour the resulting mixture slowly into the broth, stirring constantly. After boiling, add spices, salt and beaten egg yolk in half a glass of broth. Soup can be served with herbs and white crackers.
Recipe for chicken soup with vegetables.
Cook chicken legs (400 g), strain the broth. Pull out the chicken meat, take it apart from the bones, cut into large pieces. Cut one medium carrot into strips, chop two onions finely, chop two small bell peppers into strips, grate one small zucchini. Let vegetables into the broth alternately: carrots, onions, peppers, zucchini. At the end of cooking, add spices for chicken, green dill, lower pieces of chicken, coarsely chopped boiled egg. In a bowl, sprinkle chicken soup with finely chopped green onions.
If you want to make this soup more satisfying, add 1 tablespoon of fine vermicelli.