Notes — A time consuming recipe but a hearty and a large stock pot of amazing soup in the end. Gelatin will make this soup gelatinous when it is cold but if you’re soup isn’t solid when it’s cold is it even hearty soup? Probably cures most colds. Will last 6+ months while frozen. Can sub rice instead of noodles. (unknown kcal/recipe)
Ingredients
- Meat from one full broiler chicken, shredded
- 2 cup white onion, chopped
- 1 cup carrots, chopped fine
- 1 cup celery, chopped fine
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 tbsp thyme
- 1 tbsp rosemary
- 1 bay leaf
- 2 tbsp schmaltz
- 1 packet gelatin (about 1 tsp)
- 8 cups chicken broth or to preferred thickness
- 10 oz. egg noodles (or 2 cups cooked brown, black, or wild rice.)
- salt to taste
Instructions
- Prep the broiler chicken. Split meat into cuts (legs/drums/thigh/breast). Then remove all of the skin from the meat and set aside. Place all the meat and bones on a baking tray and bake at 400˚F for one hour. Let cool then remove meat and shred in stand mixer.
- While the meat is cooking, cut the skin into half inch or one inch pieces. Place in a deep saucepan and render down until the skin is browned. Serve cracklings with salt and lemon as a snack. Reserve schmaltz for cooking vegetables.
- Freeze remaining meat scraps and bones for making chicken broth in the future.
- Saute the carrots in a large stock pot with schmaltz. Saute until soft and the edges start to brown.
- Add in celery and onion and saute with carrots and schmaltz until the onions are browned and soft.
- Add in aromatic spices (rosemary, thyme, bay) and saute for one to two minutes until very fragrant.
- Add in garlic and saute for about one minute, stirring constantly until it is lightly browned.
- Combine vegetables and seasonings with broth and pre-shredded chicken (from broth recipe). Bring to a boil then reduce to a simmer.
- Simmer until vegetables are totally soft, about 30 min.
- Add egg noodles and simmer for between 20–30 minutes to cook the noodles all the way through.
- Mix gelatin with a half cup of cold water until totally dissolved. Add dissolved gelatin to the pot and stir a few times to mix it in.
- Serve with crusty bread or toast.