Chicken broth: a simple recipe
To properly cook a clear broth,you should put the processed and washed carcass in water and let the water boil. Then reduce the heat and cook until fully cooked over low heat. Do not close the lid of the pan, add salt at the end of cooking. If turbidity does appear, it should be removed with a slotted spoon or beaten egg white should be added. The white will collect all the turbidity. Cooking the broth takes from 30 minutes to an hour. This broth can be drunk straight from a cup. This recipe is an excellent remedy for flu and colds. If you decorate the broth with herbs and croutons, you will get a wonderful lunch. Sometimes a boiled and cut egg is placed on the bottom of the plate for beauty. You can use chicken broth as a "dressing" for soups, borscht and various sauces. Some housewives add a whole onion, parsley roots and celery in small doses when cooking. This gives it a "spiciness", but takes away the pleasant chicken smell. There are also recipes for chicken broth from other countries. For example, in India, ginger, pepper, turmeric and nutmeg are always added to chicken broth. All these spices are mixed in a mortar and boiled with a small amount of broth, and then added to the main broth. The broth turns out hot and spicy. However, this recipe is only suitable for very lean chicken, otherwise the "blow to the liver" will be too strong. But it will help with a cold right away. Students and other poor but hungry people have come up with the idea of making chicken soup from giblets. You can make an inexpensive but tasty first course if you have chicken giblets, legs, neck and wings. All this will give the necessary broth, which can easily replace any other broth in terms of nutrition. You need to cook it for 20-30 minutes.
Chicken soup is a classic
How to cook delicious chicken soup frombroth prepared in advance? Nothing could be easier! The classic recipe involves using potatoes, onions and carrots. If desired, you can add rice, buckwheat or star-shaped pasta. Long noodles, spider web noodles and even regular Chinese instant noodles will do! The latter can be added only at the end of cooking or even lowered into the plate before pouring the soup. Cut 3-4 potatoes (for 2 liters of broth) into cubes and lower into boiling broth. If the chicken is ready, take it out, cool and cut into portions. Cut 1 carrot into small cubes, sauté and lower into the soup, then finely chop, sauté and put 1 onion into the pan. Cook until done (20 minutes). To prepare classic homemade noodles, you will need 1 egg, 50 g of butter, salt, a glass of flour and 1/4 cup of water. Knead the dough and roll it into a thin sheet. Then cut it into thin strips. The noodles can be dried in the sun. Some housewives specially prepare the noodles in the morning, leave them on the table and only cook the soup in the evening. Those who are busy can replace homemade noodles with store-bought ones. Choose thin and flat noodles or "cobweb". Thin ready-made noodles should be dipped 2-3 minutes before readiness. How to cook chicken noodle soup correctly? The recipe is simple. Add potatoes, carrots and onions to the boiling broth. Cut everything equally. If someone likes it fatter, you can pre-fry the onions and carrots. Cook it all for 10 minutes. Then add the noodles and cook until done. Before serving, be sure to add finely chopped greens: dill and parsley.
Chicken soup with dumplings
To prepare the dough we take flour (1glass), salt, baking powder. Knead the dough (you can use a blender) until it becomes viscous. We will make dumplings from the prepared dough. Tear off medium-sized pieces of dough and throw them into the boiling broth in which our potatoes, onions and carrots are already being cooked. When serving, sprinkle with celery or (who likes) cilantro. Dumpling soup is a classic dish of Russian national cuisine. It can be varied by adding different herbs (spices) to the dumplings: caraway seeds, lemon zest, pepper and other seasonings. You can make dumplings with spinach, parsley and dill. There is a Ukrainian version of dumpling soup - "yushka with dumplings". Dumplings - the same dumplings, but harder, since the dough for them is kneaded stiffer, like for noodles.
Georgian chicken soup (chihirtma)
Georgian cuisine differs from Russian cuisine in its abundanceseasonings. Recipes emphasize cumin, basil, cilantro, dried tomatoes and other spices. To prepare Georgian soup, cook classic chicken broth with peppercorns. Then sauté pre-sifted flour (1-2 tbsp.) Add salt, pepper, sprigs of greenery (cilantro, celery), wine vinegar. Then pour into the broth. Turn off the heat. Dilute saffron (1-2 stamens) with water (1 tbsp.) and let dissolve. Beat 1 egg yolk and slowly add it to the cooling broth. Remove the sprigs with a slotted spoon. When the soup cools to 70 degrees, add saffron.
Chinese chicken noodle soup
We have a recipe for Chinese soup.Yes, in China they also love delicious chicken soup! For such noodles you will need canned bamboo, ginger root, carrots, onions, pepper, soy sauce. Noodles can be cooked correctly according to the classic recipe: knead the dough from 1 cup of flour, water and 1 egg, then roll out and cut into strips. You can buy rice noodles in the store. It should only be boiled a little (3-5 minutes) with the addition of 1 teaspoon of rice vinegar. Add it at the very end. But for broth, one chicken is not enough; the Chinese add a little pork (14 of the volume of chicken). You can cook separately, or together; but first put in the pork and only after 10-20 minutes the chicken. Be sure to strain the broth and cut the meat into cubes. Add ginger root, carrot strips and onions. Also put bamboo there and cook until done. The final step is to add 50 g of soy sauce to the soup.
Chicken Soup in Japanese
The Japanese are very fond of chicken miso soup.Miso is a paste made from sprouted beans. It is quite difficult to buy it in our country, but if you search the shelves of supermarkets, everything is possible! If you cannot find miso paste, take canned beans and rub them through a sieve. This will be a weak, but still a substitute for miso paste. The classic way is to stir seaweed in water, then add fish concentrate or dashi. You can use a recipe for regular chicken broth, into which you should put miso paste through a sieve, after turning off the heat. Before use, tofu cheese, chicken meat, sesame seeds, quail egg and herbs are added to the miso soup.
Chicken soup with mushrooms
Finely chop 200 g of champignons and add toboiling chicken broth. Then add 2-3 potatoes and 1 finely chopped and fried until golden onion. Cook until the potatoes are done. Serve with cream. You can add cream or a little milk. This recipe was highly respected by Peter the Great… As you can see, chicken soup recipes are very diverse! In different countries, it is cooked differently, using the culinary traditions of the countries in which the cooks themselves live.
