Magic Chicken Soup for Chilly Nights
Channel: Dragoony's bites
Date: 09/11/2023

For any kind of cold, fever or flu, chicken soup has been the best food to eat. It warms you up from the inside and it give your body some extra nutrients that it needs.
This soup has been a staple for such occasions for many years in my family.

📜This recipe will make around 1,5 L of chicken soup.

🔹Ingredients:🔹
- 1,3 kg / 2.8 lbs chicken (frozen)
- 1 medium sized leek
- ½ yellow onion
- 2 big  carrots
- 30 black peppercorns
- 1 wedge of celery root
- tiny pinch of saffron
- 1 tbsp parsley
- ~ 15 g / 1 tbsp salt
- ~ 2 l  / 8 cups cold water

Soup spice mix:
- 2 bay leaves
- pinch of safflower
- pinch of piment (all spice)
- pinch of ground cumin
- pinch of nutmeg

🔹Preparation:🔹
1. Brown the onion on medium to high heat for about 8-10 minutes. Once charred on the bottom remove from the heat.
2. Place a large pot on the stove. Make sure it can hold at least around 5 litres (1.3 gallons) of liquid. Place your frozen chicken into the pot and to it add your vegetables. Cover the chicken with at least 2,5 litres (0.6 gallons) of water. Chicken and vegetables must be all submerged. Bring everything up to a slight boil on medium to high heat. It should take about 30 to 45 minutes.
3. As it cooks, remove any scum that forms on the top. Once the soup is simmering and the scum is removed, add in your aromatics (parsley, saffron, peppercorns) and soup spice mix. At the end add some saffron and salt
4.Cover the pot and cook the soup for about 2.5 to 3 hours on low heat. Do not let it come to a boil. It must only have a slight simmer.
5. Once cooked, remove from stove. Remove the chicken from the pot and place it on the plate. Remove a few carrots from the pot as well and slice them up. Cut away from chicken a bit for breast meat and slice it into strips.
6.Prepare a smaller pot and place a mesh strainer over it. Ladle your soup through the mash strainer. This way it's easy to separate the liquid from the solids left from the cooking. Ladle only as much soup as you will eat at that time. Add back in the sliced carrots and chicken meat.
7. If the soup has cooled too much, place it back onto the stove and heat it up. Make sure it doesn't boil.
8. Serve hot.

Tip: You can cook some noodles to go along with the soup as well. 

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Time stamps:
00:00 Intro
00:11 List of ingredients
00:17 Charring up the onion
00:34 Putting ingredients into a pot
01:24 Remove the scum
01:38 Adding the aromatics and spices
02:12 Remove the chicken from the soup
02:14 Strain the soup
02:41 Serve the soup
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MaxKoMusic: Cooking show
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