Super Easy Homemade Soup
- Ready In:
- 4hrs
- Ingredients:
- 11
- Yields:
-
1 cup
- Serves:
- 22
ingredients
-
Broth
- 1 raw chicken carcasses or 1 raw turkey carcass, with as much skin removed as possible
- 30 cups water (or enough water to cover the body)
- 1⁄4 cup salt (I use coarse salt, but whatever is on hand is good)
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Add Ins
- 2 -3 cups carcass meat (or whatever comes off the bones, eliminating all mini bones)
- 4 boneless skinless chicken thighs, cut into bite sized pieces
- 1 cup alphabet pasta
- 1 1⁄2 cups rice (not instant!)
- 2 cups frozen corn
- 2 cups peas
- 2 cups mixed vegetables (or variety of your choice)
- salt (I once again used the coarse salt, this is up to you)
directions
- Boil carcass in pot large enough to hold it and with enough water to cover it. Season with the 1/4 cup salt prior to boiling. Let boil for up to 3 hours, checking water levels occasionally.
- Use slotted spoon to remove all pieces of carcass (careful, it will have separated into smaller pieces).
- Strain into another container with cheesecloth to catch all the meat floating in the water, as well as the residual fat from the body.
- Allow the bones to cool to touch to remove the remaining meat for the soup.
- Place the broth back into the now cleaned pot (washing in between is key here) with the meat from the carcass. Stir occasionally.
- Put back onto the stove to boil. Add the cut thigh meat after the water boils. Stir occasionally.
- Add the rice and pasta, let come to a boil again. Stir occasionally (see a pattern here? :D).
- Once the rice and pasta begin to swell, add veggies (you know what to do here :D).
- Season to taste with salt.
- Serve to those you love (especially yourself!).
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Chef JTwombly
United States
Former army brat who grew up in a kitchen full of cooks (dad and mom both worked in military kitchens for a living). Food has been the focus of my growing up years, from learning how to make full meals at a young age to making dishes for my own friends and family.
Looking to expand on my cookbook collection (Michael Smith, Gordon Ramsay, and Alton Brown for starters) and my knowledge of fast, easy and flavourful meals.