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🍽️ Grandma's Chicken Soup
512 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings
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Ingredients
- 1.5 kg chicken (1 chicken)
- 3 onions
- 2 bay leaves
- 12 black peppercorns
- salt
- 300 g celeriac (0.5 celeriac)
- 400 g large carrots (3 large carrots)
- 150 g small leek stalk (1 small leek stalk)
- 150 g parsnips (2 parsnips)
- 150 g parsley root (3 parsley roots)
- 200 g Hokkaido pumpkin (1 piece)
- 175 g whole grain soup noodles
- 2 sprigs lovage
Instructions
- 1. Wash the chicken thoroughly.
- 2. Place the chicken in a large pot.
- 3. Pour 3 liters of water over it.
- 4. Bring the water to a boil.
- 5. Skim off the rising foam with a skimmer.
- 6. Halve the onions, but do not peel them.
- 7. Heat a pan over high heat.
- 8. Roast the onion halves without fat on the cut sides until well browned.
- 9. Add the roasted onions to the skimmed broth.
- 10. Add bay leaves and peppercorns.
- 11. Season the broth with a little salt.
- 12. Simmer the soup for 15 minutes over low heat.
- 13. Skim the soup again if necessary.
- 14. Peel and clean half of the celery.
- 15. Peel and clean half of the carrots.
- 16. Clean and wash half of the leek.
- 17. Dice the prepared vegetables roughly.
- 18. Add the coarse vegetables to the pot.
- 19. Cook the vegetables for 1 1/2 hours over medium heat, uncovered.
- 20. Peel and clean the remaining celery.
- 21. Peel and clean the remaining carrots.
- 22. Peel and clean the parsnips.
- 23. Peel and clean the parsley roots.
- 24. Wash the pumpkin.
- 25. Wash the remaining leek.
- 26. Cut the remaining vegetables into 2 cm cubes or slices.
- 27. Remove the chicken from the soup.
- 28. Remove the skin from the chicken.
- 29. Separate the meat from the bones.
- 30. Cut the meat into 2 cm cubes.
- 31. Set the meat aside.
- 32. Strain the chicken soup into a second pot through a sieve.
- 33. Cook the diced vegetables in the broth over medium heat for 10-15 minutes.
- 34. Cook the noodles in salted water.
- 35. Drain the noodles.
- 36. Hold the noodles briefly under cold running water.
- 37. Add the noodles together with the meat to the chicken soup.
- 38. Heat the noodles in the soup.
- 39. Wash the lovage.
- 40. Shake the lovage dry.
- 41. Pluck the leaves from the lovage.
- 42. Serve the chicken soup sprinkled with the leaves.
Nutrition per serving
- kcal: 512
- Protein: 64 g · Fett/Fat: 13 g · Carbs: 32 g