Friday, January 28, 2011

Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup

This recipe is for that like mom or grandma would make homemade chicken noodle soup from scratch with make your own noodles. This is a more advanced recipe and it does take a big chunk out of your day. When you feel more comfortable making this then you can find ways to become speedy and have it made in a few hours.

First thing I do is get my ingredients at the store, some of this stuff you may already have on hand:

One big package of chicken drumsticks (un-thawed)
2 big cartoons of chicken broth
one bunch of celery
one bag of pre cut carrots (they have ridges like Ruffles chips)
one large onion
garlic salt
all purpose seasoning
basil
italian seasoning
celery salt
extra powdered chicken or beef broth as needed
and any other seasoning you may want to add depending on your tastes

Cooking down the chicken:

dump both of your cartons of chicken broth into a big cooking pot
add your chicken drumsticks
now you will need to probably add extra water covering the drumsticks in liquid
at this time I add like 2 chicken bouillon cubes
take your celery and cut out the leaves and add them to the pot
cut your onion in half and I take out the center cut it up and add it to the pot
now add all your favorite seasonings...Im pretty generous with them

This is what the start of your stock pot full of chicken will resemble. 


 Now boil away stirring occasionally. 


Cook until the meat pretty much falls off the bone.

Now I use some sort of slotted spoon to take out all the drumsticks and any long celery stocks.



 Transfer your drumsticks into a colander or I use this nifty strainer that stretches across the sink. This way you can get air all around the drumsticks and they cool faster to take the meat off of the bone. I place a bowl underneath and then drop my bones and skin in it and put my meat into another bowl. Now you can take those pieces and chop it up a bit or just use as is. I stir in some garlic salt and stir the meat up a bit.

Now your ready to make your homemade noodles !!!

That recipe next !!! Stay tuned. 







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