Dad especially loved to start with a big empty pot, say 6 to 8 quarts. Next, cut up a big yellow onion and put it there. Give the onion, garlic, and celery a chance to saute in the bottom of the pot in a dash of EVOO and salt. Add chicken broth. Simmer on the lowest setting.
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The chicken soup requires four legs and thighs. If you have space in your pot, add your favorite vegetables, such as green beans, leeks, potatoes, corn, or okra.
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Dreaming of chicken tortilla soup? Add black beans, cilantro, adobo, a jalapeno, and a dash of cumin.
If you need more broth, add chicken stock and water. Bring it up to two to three inches from the top of your pot. Adding a few chicken-flavored bouillion cubes will boost the flavors in your stock.
From there, continue adding your ingredients. I include oregano, basil, green beans, bay leaves, celery stalks, and a tomato. Remember to add some garlic to the onions and shallots.
The idea is a long, low simmer. Give the stock four hours to simmer. Keep adding your vegetables. Let the chicken flavors release. The flavors will combine. The schmaltz is real, and it's spectacular.
If you add uncooked noodles to your stock, you will have a cloudy stock that might no longer look like chicken soup.
Boil the noodles separately, and then when it's time to eat, put the noodles in your bowl and pour your soup broth over it. I suggest Pennsylvania Dutch flat egg noodles.
Float tomatoes in there to add flavor. Adding colors to your soup is as easy as throwing in carrots, corn, green, red, or yellow peppers.
Dad's chicken soup was a fabulous, comforting, schmaltzy, old-school way to have dinner. I hope you enjoy this recipe.
Hey, elbows off the table.
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Douglas Pilarski is an award-winning writer & journalist based on the West Coast. He writes about luxury goods, exotic cars, horology, tech, food, lifestyle, equestrian and rodeo, magazine features, and millionaire travel.
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