Soup Recipes

[bluee19]

Originally Posted by Worth1

Okay here you go.
I have to tell you I cook with what is available in the house.
It is hard for me to tell what I do and can only give you guidelines you have to make things taste the way you want.
Now just because you like ketchup doesn't mean it will be good in chicken soup.
So I will give you the basic steps for a good soup and you ad what you think you like and have.
I will also give you some do's and dont's.
Don't add spices like tarragon to the soup until the very end.
Don't mix spices that dont complement each other.
So here we go.
Take equal parts oil and flour more or less.
Put the oil in a pan and heat it up but not smoking hot.
Add the flour a little at a time and stir it in the oil and cook at medium low heat just until it starts to change color then set it aside.
About 1/4 cup of flour will do.

Now take the chicken and cut it up raw into chunks into about 1/2 to 3/4 inch squares.
Season real well with salt black pepper and garlic powder mix it up and put it in the fridge.
You can use lots of hot red pepper too as this is good for a cold.
Now heat up a skillet and sear the chicken in it with oil until it is done.
Do NOT over cook it especially the breast.
You want the breast to be soft and juicy not dry.
Now take the roux you made with the flour and put it in a kettle and add a quart of low salt chicken broth on low heat and start mixing.
This will take about 30 minutes to cook and at the end bring to a very low simmer.
Now it is time to add more garlic tarragon and more pepper and some poultry seasoning be generous but not nuts.
Let your taste decide for you as to what you want it to taste like and what you have and use.
At the same time you do this put in the chicken and let it cook just at the very low simmer for about 15 minutes no more and maybe less.
You can boil all of the juice out of the chicken cooking it too hot and long.
Boiling water will also kill the herbs like tarragon you put in too.

While you were doing this pick out your favorite pasta and cook it rinse it and set it aside.
Cook as much as you think you will need.
Now that the soup is done and off the burner you can add the pasta to it let it heat up from the residual heat and serve.
This is the way I cook soups more or less with chicken.
I dont know if you have any dry white wine or vermouth in the house but if you do you can toss a shot in the chicken while it is cooking too.
I like vermouth myself.

Worth

Thanks Mr. Chef Worth for your recipe. I didn't get a chance to go to store today. I will have a chance tomorrow. I hope this helps with my very sore throat. I guess I won't know until I make it. Thank you for taking your time to type up this recipe.

On a joking side, the amount of food you make, I wished I could get some of it via drone or something.

Thanks Mr. Chef Worth.

[Tormato]

When I'm sick, it's too late to make chicken soup. So, I make it in advance and freeze it. I won't go into details because this recipe would likely be too large (16 quarts) for you...

1 fowl (~6-7 lbs)
carrots
sweet potato
onion
garlic
parsnip
celery
lots of time & love

[bluee19]

Originally Posted by Tormato

When I'm sick, it's too late to make chicken soup. So, I make it in advance and freeze it. I won't go into details because this recipe would likely be too large (16 quarts) for you...

1 fowl (~6-7 lbs)
carrots
sweet potato
onion
garlic
parsnip
celery
lots of time & love

i didn't think about making in advance and freezing. It sure would help now hahaha. I need to work on freezing food so when I need to eat, I have it. Otherwise, I am always looking for food to eat but have to make it.

[Tormato]

My recipe is from decades ago, found in a cook book with real paper pages.

Online searching for "Jewish Penicillin" or "golden chicken soup" would get you many variations. I always make the soup base, and then decide whether it'll be with rice, noodles (Polish "kluski" are my favorite), or this may seem strange... I like chicken soup best with meat tortellinis.

Of course, if the throat is extremely sore, all I have is the broth, and lots of it.

[Worth1]

Bluee19 I am as about as far from a chef as you can get but thank you anyway.
Strange, when I gave a cold I like real spicy hot Mexican food.

Now you guys have me wanting to can up a bunch of chicken soup.

Worth

[Tormato]

Originally Posted by Worth1

Bluee19 I am as about as far from a chef as you can get but thank you anyway.
Strange, when I gave a cold I like real spicy hot Mexican food.

Now you guys have me wanting to can up a bunch of chicken soup.

Worth

A cold to me means a either a stuffed up or runny nose, first. So, I agree with clearing that up with spicy food.

For a very sore throat with no nose problems, chicken broth rules.

[Father'sDaughter]

When my husband has a cold and is all stuffed up, he swears by hot and sour soup (emphasis on the hot) from a Chinese restaurant.

[bluee19]

Originally Posted by Father'sDaughter

When my husband has a cold and is all stuffed up, he swears by hot and sour soup (emphasis on the hot) from a Chinese restaurant.

I love hot and sour soup. It does have some spice in there. I have tried many places and none by far beats this one in Alhambra called Ming Wa. If you ever travel to Alhambra, CA, you must try this one.