chicken soup

kijpost

To my cooks out there,
I need to use up some chicken that I made and I thought about making soup.  I have never made chicken soup from scratch, what is the secret to good soup?

LauraT25

Swanson Broth!

No, seriously, I don't make brothy soups so I don't know.  I would probably throw it in the slow cooker with some potato cubes and cream-of-something soup.

moleson99

Seriously, Swanson broth!  I put that in my chicken soup!!!!  I'm a fan of the slow cooker so I put anything i can in there.  I could recommend though, that if you're going to add noodles, make sure you're around to watch it.  I did that once and they got WAAAAAY too mushy!

shauni27

mmmmm, do you mean like a whole chicken left over, like you roasted a chicken and you have the bones and carcus left plus some meat?  or just a few cooked up chicken breasts? 

if you mean the former, then in a large soup pot, saute onions and carrots and a bay leaf.  once fragrant, add a few cups of chicken broth and a few cops of water.  then throw the carcass and meat in all it's glory in there.  let it come to a boil, then cover it and reduce to a low simmer.  let it go for hours and hours (like 3-5).  then let it cool enough for you to scoop in and take out the bones.  any and all meat left on the chicken will have separated and will just be chicken in the soup now  then let it sit in the pot NOT on heat for hours and hours.  the fat will form at the top and get a little thicker this way, so it is easier to remove it with a spoon.  THEN you can put it back on heat, add potatoes, kale, noodles, etc.  whatever you want!  and just let it cook until the new ingredients are cooked thoroughly

if it is the latter, than i would probably just make something up for the crock pot.  chicken broth, the chicken, lots of veggies(onion, carrot, kale), maybe some white beans, maybe some sausage too!  and salt and pepper and a BAY LEAF always

google chicken soup recipes too! 

kijpost

Shauni, I think cooking with you would be a lot of fun.  I somehow imagine that in between those hours and hours of the chicken soup cooking there would be a few bottles of wine emptied!  I made a roasted chicken and I took the meat off the bones so I no longer have carcass and everything but I hope that this will still taste more flavorful than if it was made with just breast meat.  I will note the Bay leaf tip.

shauni27

kijpost:

Shauni, I think cooking with you would be a lot of fun.  I somehow imagine that in between those hours and hours of the chicken soup cooking there would be a few bottles of wine emptied!  I made a roasted chicken and I took the meat off the bones so I no longer have carcass and everything but I hope that this will still taste more flavorful than if it was made with just breast meat.  I will note the Bay leaf tip.

 

you callin' me an alchy????

jk  i think that the way your chicken is now it will still work the first way i described, you just wont need as many "hours!" 

kijpost

Nope nope, not at all.  I am right there with ya!