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[themeletor]

comment with your best/favorite chicken soup recipe. Everyone in this house is getting sick >.

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[commodorified.livejournal.com]

This is a lazy one, and very garlic-and-onion, so good for sick days and comes out quite well.

1) Go buy a precooked roasted chicken. (For more than 4 people, buy two and make more soup.)

Buy also some boneless skinless chicken thighs and or breasts and a head or two of garlic and 2-3 onions, and a packet of egg noodles (unless you want potatoes or rice, in which case get them). Quantities should be based on how much you like each of these things, really -- you want to put about 4 pounds total of food into one chicken carcass worth of stock, but the proportions are totally about your own tastes.

Grab also some celery and carrots.

2) Eat the chicken, possibly with crusty bread. No cooking!

Then put the carcass into lots of water with some bay leaves and some pepper and herbs de provence if you have it or any random vegetable scraps you have handy and leave it to simmer it overnight while you go to bed with a book and lots of ginger ale.

3) The next day, strain the stock and discard the carcass, etc.

4) Quarter or slice the onions, peel the garlic cloves, wash and slice up the celery and carrots, and cut up the chicken. Put it all in the pot. Bring it to a boil and leave it to simmer while you nap.

5) An hour before you want to eat it, add the noodles, rice, or potatoes, along with mushrooms or any less sturdy green veggies you want in this. You can dump in a bit of white wine if you have it around and like it, at this point. You will also want to add a bit of salt at this time. Bring it to a boil again and then let it go back to simmer. In an hour, possibly a bit sooner, it will be done.

6) Eat it until it's gone or you feel better.

[meletor-et-al.livejournal.com]

I basically followed this, except I forgot to buy other chicken so I pulled the meat off the carcass and saved it, and threw it into the soup instead of eating it separately. also I added useful amounts of lemon, ginger, and cayenne pepper. it was awesome :D

[commodorified.livejournal.com]

Glad you liked it, and that you're feeling better.