Easy homemade chicken and vegetable soup.
Total Time: 1.5 hours
Yield: 12
Source: This recipe is also featured on my blog
Ingredients:
- 1 whole chicken
- 2 cups diced carrots
- 2 cups corn
- 2 diced onions
- 1 diced group of celery
- 2 cups peas
- pepper or other seasonings
- rice or noodles, if desired
Steps:
- Boil one chicken in water to cover with 3 inches extra. Boil until well done and meat starts to pull away from bone. Let cool. Draw fat to the top with ice OR let sit in refrigerator over night, and remove fat from top the next morning.
- After removing fat, remove skin and meat from bones. Save the liquid. It's your stock. Feed the fat and skin to the animals, it's good for their coat.
- Run liquid through a colander. Add the chicken you removed from the bones to that liquid.
- Then add vegetables and seasonings to taste: Accent, paprika, pepper, garlic, Cajun spice mix, poultry seasoning.
- In a separate pot, boil either rice or noodles. When cooked, drain and rinse well. Add to the chicken and veggies.
Notice that I did not add salt. You can if you like, but we don't. Unless you use a fresh butchered chicken of your own, even the chickens you buy at the store contain salt. If you use canned veggies, they also contain salt, and your seasonings may also have salt. If you are trying to avoid salt, rinse your bought chicken and rinse off your canned veggies.
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January 15, 20140 found this helpful
I would NOT feed chicken skin/fat to animals, unless you want animals with diarrhea or stomach upset.
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