Wholesome Chicken Soup.
You can cook Wholesome Chicken Soup using 19 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Wholesome Chicken Soup
- It's of chicken thigh meat, deboned and deskinned.
- Prepare of whole peeled cloves garlic.
- Prepare of large onion, quartered.
- It's of carrots, cut into 1 inch pieces.
- Prepare of celery stalk, cut into 2 inch pieces.
- It's of whole shiitake mushrooms.
- You need of peppercorns.
- Prepare of bay leaves.
- It's of dried ginger powder.
- It's of carrots cut into centimeter cubes.
- It's of celery stalks cut into centimeter cubes.
- It's of turmeric.
- You need of soy sauce.
- It's of Worcestershire.
- You need of Chinese rice wine.
- It's of butter.
- It's of salt.
- You need of Pepper.
- Prepare of Sour cream to serve.
Wholesome Chicken Soup instructions
- 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..