Chicken soup

Gold Member Joined: Dec 27 2005 Posts: 1006

There was a great thread on exactly this a while ago...

The search function here isn't the best, but if you browse around the cooking section I think you'll find the long chicken soup thread. I enjoyed reading what everyone else puts in!

My newest discovery-- beets in the chicken soup! If you use small ones and leave them whole they don't turn the soup bright red, and it gives a nice golden color and sweetness. I love adding any and all root vegetables-- carrot, turnips, parsnips, beets, petrushka (celeriac? celery root?)

Posted: Wed, May 02 2007, 2:18 am Post subject: re: Your Chicken soup

Why are people so into the "there was a thread on this already". What if people changed what they do? Or pashut don't read an old thread that was newly commented on. Or what about the new members...

Diamond Member Joined: Dec 05 2005 Posts: 3505

I don't do this bec it makes the soup messy, but one of the best soup I've tasted (my sil) has dill in it. also, you need to put lots and lots of salt. and chicken with the skin on.

Posted: Wed, May 02 2007, 2:52 am Post subject: re: Your Chicken soup

I like messy soup! Whenever I go to someone's house and they serve a clear broth, I get this picture in my head that they're really poor and that's all that they can afford...

Posted: Wed, May 02 2007, 2:59 am Post subject: re: Your Chicken soup

Some people just don't like veggies etc. in the soup.
Me onion, zucchini, tomato, sweet potatoe or pumpkin, carrots, celery, potatoes--all or some of the above. Sometimes parsley and or dill, sometimes a bay leaf, chicken necks or turkey necks, and lots of time. I cook the soup all day.
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OK! I found the thread for you. It's called: "What do you put in your Chicken Soup??"

Here it is: http://imamother.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5901&sid=a24b78887547e34d86cf89eab6a7d1d5
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Posted: Wed, May 02 2007, 6:01 am Post subject: re: Your Chicken soup

I put in flanken and marrow bones. It adds tons of flavoring. I also put garlic, dill and parsley in a bag, this way after the soup is cooked you can just throw it out. And by the way, my soup is a very clean soup and, no, we are not poor. My soup in an expensive soup.

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I put wings, bones, and whole cut up chicken, and turky necks. And the usual veggies and a waxed rutabaga, and parsley I cant stand the smell of dill.

Posted: Wed, May 02 2007, 8:23 am Post subject: Re: re: Your Chicken soup

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Silver Member Joined: Aug 30 2006 Posts: 766

Yum! Chicken soup! If you're the type that likes the soup clear but also loves dill in your soup, here's a way to accomplish this: After you have soaked and rinsed the dill, fold it up as small as you can and stuff it inside one of the veggies that you're putting in the soup. For example, you can add a red pepper to your soup. Clean it out but keep it whole and put your dill in there.

Silver Member Joined: Aug 30 2006 Posts: 766

Again, if you like clear soup, here's something I learned from my aunt: I pour boiling water over the chicken and bones and dump it out and THEN start making the soup. It takes off a lot of the goop that you see come to the top of your soup while it's cooking. But you still have to skim the top of the soup a little bit.

Breslov, your remark "I like messy soup" is so cute! I understand where you're coming from, but the reason I like it clear is because I feel like the goop has been removed. (Sorry, I don't know the real word for the "goop").

Platinum Member Joined: Sep 11 2004 Posts: 19241

I add a drop of lemon juice to my soup Rolling Laughter

because I read that it up's the calcium in the soup by 62%. Rolling Laughter

Executive Member Joined: Dec 27 2006 Posts: 486

This is the recipe to my yummy chicken soup:

Chicken Bones
Water
2 tsp salt
1 tblsp osem chicken soup consomme
3 cloves crushed garlic
Bag of carrots
1 lrg squash
1 sweet potatoe
5 sticks celery
2 petershke
1 medium onion
Checked Dill from alei katif
Checked parsley from alei katif

I let it cook for about 4 hours on small flame (first on high flame till it boils)

I hope I didnt forget anything.

Its really yummy and flavorfull!!
always gets me lots of compliments!!!!

Silver Member Joined: Aug 30 2006 Posts: 766

GR, any chance you might remember where you read about adding lemon to the soup to boost calcium absorption? Always looking for ways to prevent osteoporosis but I don't want to tell my daughter a bubamaisa that I can't be sure about otherwise my credibility for other things will be on the line Wink

Platinum Member Joined: Sep 11 2004 Posts: 19241

From the Prevention magazine. Embarassed

I read it at my in-law's. They also say you can rub vinegar over the bones in your meat cuts to bring out the calcium.

Silver Member Joined: Aug 30 2006 Posts: 766

Thank you, GR!

Platinum Member Joined: Sep 11 2004 Posts: 19241

No prob.

I don't want to be the only wacko who adds lemon juice to chicken soup. Rolling Laughter

Silver Member Joined: Aug 30 2006 Posts: 766

Here it is GR: From Prevention:
5. Stock Up on Calcium
If you're preparing homemade chicken soup, it's smart to add a hint of lemon juice, vinegar, or tomato to the mix. Pairing a slightly acidic broth with on-the-bone chicken can up the soup's calcium content by 64%, according to researchers at Harvard University and Beth Israel Hospital in Boston. (This stock dissolves the bone's calcium more easily than a nonacidic one would.)