Chicken Or Turkey Carcuss Soup Aka Chicken Noodle ... |
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Prep Time: 0 Minutes Cook Time: 120 Minutes |
Ready In: 120 Minutes Servings: 10 |
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Old-fashioned, total comfort food of the best kind. You can use store bought pasta or make your own. It's good...great on a cold winter night or when you just want a great bowl of chicken noodle or chicken vegetable soup. Read more . Ingredients:
*1 chicken carcass or you could use a turkey carcass, along with all the left over meat, bones and trimmings. |
can use whole chicken. i like to use the left overs from a rotisserie chicken |
aromatics: *2 cups chopped celery |
*2 cups chopped onion |
1 tbs minced garlic. |
herbs and seasonings |
3 nice size bay leaves |
1 tbs ground or rubbed sage, or 2 tbs fresh chopped |
1 1/2 tsp. ground pepper, or peppercorns |
1 tsp. crushed dried or 1 tbs chopped fresh thyme |
1 tsp. dried crushed basil or 1 tbs chopped fresh |
1 tsp. curshed oregano |
1/2 tsp finely chopped dried rosemary or 1 tsp fresh. |
large stock pot or other very large pan. |
enough water to fill stock pot. can use chicken or turkey broth to increase intensity of flavor |
optional ingredients: for creamy broth |
1 1/2 cup chicken broth |
2 tbs cornstarch or flour...or...2 envelopes of chicken or turkey gravy mix dissolved in 1 1/2 cups broth, not hot broth. or 1 can cream of chicken soup. |
this is now your broth for the soup. |
taste of broth and adjust seasonings. |
to add vegetables to the soup |
1 medium potato per person eating plus 2 for the pot |
1 medium carrot per person and one for the pot. |
can use baby carrots instead of peeling and slicing ones. |
2 stalks celery cut into bite size pieces |
optional: any other veggies your family likes. |
Directions:
1. Save all unusable parts of a whole cooked chicken or turkey. I like to use the carcass of a Rotisserie cooked chicken.
2. Put all chicken parts into stock pot.
3. Fill stock half full of water. (broth is you are using it)
4. Add aromatics to stock pot. You may use more or less of the aromatics if you like. If your family doesn't care for a certain one, omit it.
5. Add vegetables to stock pot. You may add less or more of any of the vegetables as per family's likes and dislikes. When it is finished, or almost finished, I like to add some cauiflower or broccoli florets
6. Place on stove and finish filling the stock pot with liquid. You can also put all ingredients into large roaster pan and do the cooking in the oven if you would like at 350* until bones are boiled clean and whatever chicken left on the bones is falling off.
7. Remove, with slotted spoon, all chicken pieces from pan, and save them.
8. At this point you can dip out all the herbs and veggies you added or leave them in to add to the soups texture.
9. For Chicken Vegetable Soup with Noodles
10. Peel potatoes and cut into approximately 1 pieces.
11. Peel carrots and cut into bite size pieces.
12. Slice across the rib, the celery inot bite size pieces
13. Bring this to a boil then turn down to medium until veggies are about half sone. Still firm when pierced with a fork.
14. Add 2 cups pasta and cook until pasta is tender or to desired doneness.
15. For Chicken Noodle Soup
16. Using a slotted spoon dip out chicken parts or drain broth through a colander and then return broth to pan.
17. Taste and adjust seasonings then return to stove and bring to a boil.
18. At this point you can let it boil for awhile to evaporate some of the liquid and concentrate the chicken flavor.
19. Add pasta or homemake moodles to boiling broth. Turn to medium and cook until pasta to desired doneness.
20. Footnotes
21. In the Number of Servings box, I put 10 servings only because it will not accept a recipe without something there. I don't know how many servingd it will make, a lot.
22. This recipe is for noodle soup or you can add veggies of your choice and make a chicken vegetable soup. I have added frozen cauliflower, broccoli, green beans and peas to the soup.
23. Don't let the soup boil after you add the cauliflower, it will turn to mush very quickly. I have also added bite size pieces of zucchini. Just don't let it cook too long.
24. When you dip all the cooked chicken parts from the water, wait until they have cooled and then remove any meat you find and return it to the stock pot at the end of the cooking time. If you add the meat too soon, it will cook apart and you'll never find it.
25. If you want just noodle soup, just add the noodles. If you want veggies in the soup, add the veggies then when they are almost finished add the noodles and let them all finish at the same time.
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