Feeling a little under the weather? Craving for some homemade chicken soup?
Ingredients to make Chicken Soup with Rice Noodles:
4lbs Chicken (boneless or bone-in)
1lb Carrots
2lbs Potatoes
2lbs Tomatoes
Bean Sprouts
Rice Noodles
Steps:
Chicken Soup
1. Boil a pot of water.
2. Clean carrots and cut it up to desired size (Preferable bite size). Add carrot into boiling water.
3. Clean potatoes and cut it up to desired size (Preferable bite size). Add potatoes into boiling water.
4. Clean chicken and cut it up to desired size (Preferable bite size if using boneless. If using bone-in, leave it as whole pieces. For example, legs or thighs). Add chicken into boiling water.
5. Cut tomatoes to desired size (Preferable halves or quarters). Add tomatoes into boiling water in the last 30mins.
6. Simmer the soup for at least 2hours. Add salt to taste.
7. In a separate pot, cook the rice noodles and bean sprouts.
8. Put rice noodles and bean sprouts in a bowl and add the chicken soup.
Cooking Rice Noodle Technique
1. Soak rice noodles with cold water for 10mins.
2. Boil a pot of water.
3. Add rice noodles into boiling water for 2mins. Stir the rice noodles to loosen it up.
4. Remove rice noodles from boiling water.
5. Soak rice noodles in cold ice water for 2mins.
6. Remove rice noodles from cold ice water.
Cooking Bean Sprouts (Not necessary. Can be eaten raw.)
1. Clean Bean Sprouts.
2. Boil a pot of water.
3. Add bean sprouts into boiling water for 2mis.
4. Remove bean sprouts from boiling water.
Notes:
The bean sprouts and rice noodles are not necessary to the dish. Any other desired vegetables can be added to this soup.
Cost:
This recipe is good for 10 to 12 people and it cost less than $10 to make.
2 comments:
Thanks for the recipe.
Here are my questions:
1) Why the vegetables in first and then the meat?
2) Could I use chicken stock - store bought and homemade?
3) Adding the tomatoes in to simmer would mash them up. Is it suppose to be mashed up?
4) Do I put the rice noodles in directly from the packet into the pot?
1. The vegetables first is to make the vegetables soft. As for the meat, if you cook the meat first, the meat will be tasteless but your soup will be good (Good for people that do not like to eat meat). If you put the meat last, it will preserved some of the flavor in the meat.
2. Sure, you can use chicken stock to speed up the process. Cooking the soup with Bone-in chicken will create the Chicken Stock. In a way, this soup is actually like a stock that can be used to cook other things.
3. Ways of cooking the tomatoes are based on an individual. Some like it solid, some like it mashed up.
4. If you are using rice noodles from a packet, you want to cook it separately. Thanks for noticing this. I will update the post.
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