Chicken Crossing the Road
Happy Chicken Tuesday!
Today I'm sharing my wonderful homemade Chicken Noodle soup recipe!
Ingredients:
1 whole chicken
6 medium carrots washed, peeled and sliced
6 ribs of celery washed -Dice three of them thinly
and leave three whole
salt-to taste
pepper to taste
1 Tbsp. poultry seasoning
Swanson broth 16 oz.
rosemary 3 sprigs
sage two sprigs
cheese cloth and kitchen twine small piece
2 bay leaves
1 tablespoon garlic finely minced
1 medium onion finely chopped
16 oz pack of No Yolks Med.Sized Egg noodles
Directions:
Wash chicken and remove innards
place in large cooking pot with salt and pepper and poultry seasoning
Make a Bouquet Garni for the herbs by placing them on the cheese cloth scrap and tying them up in there snugly. Toss the Bouquet Garni in the pot with the boiling chicken. If the Bay leaves will not fit don't worry about it. Just toss them in the pot separate.
Garlic, Onion, carrots, celery, and ALL ingredients except noodles and reserve 2/3 of the Swanson broth for later.
Bring to a full boil then turn heat down to Med. High and cook for several hours
until the chicken is falling off the bone.
Take chicken out of the pot and allow to cool slightly.
Pick good white meat off the bone cube and add back to broth.
Toss out three whole ribs of celery from broth.
Discard bay leaves and bouquet garni
Add noodles
Add remaining Swanson broth
Boil until noodles are soft and tender, but not overcooked. About 7 minutes at a rolling boil.
Cooking the chicken slowly and using an entire hen makes a rich, flavorful broth.
The herbs, veggies, and chicken fat are just the thing for cold weather and promote good health.
What's boiling?
Magicmomma's Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup. Yum!
Aunt Clucky's Nest and Sophie sitting atop the coop
Aunt Clucky herself! My Mom, Dad and Kids fixed this crazy thing up for me one year for my birthday! She lives in my kitchen! The eggs in her nest were made for me one year by my Mother for Easter. They are ceramic!
