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🍽️ Grandma's Chicken Soup with Vegetables

512 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings

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 stalks lovage

Instructions

1. 1. Thoroughly wash the chicken and place it in a large pot.
2. 2. Pour in 3 liters of water so that the meat is completely covered.
3. 3. Bring the water to a boil.
4. 4. Remove the rising foam with a skimmer.
5. 5. Halve the onions without peeling them.
6. 6. Heat a frying pan over high heat.
7. 7. Roast the cut sides of the onions in the hot pan without fat until deeply browned.
8. 8. Add the roasted onions, bay leaves, peppercorns, and some salt to the skimmed broth.
9. 9. Let the broth simmer for 15 minutes over low heat.
10. 10. Skim the broth again if necessary.
11. 11. Peel and clean half of the celery and carrots.
12. 12. Clean and wash half of the leek.
13. 13. Roughly dice the prepared vegetables.
14. 14. Add the diced vegetables to the pot.
15. 15. Let the soup cook for 1 1/2 hours over medium heat with the lid off.
16. 16. Clean and peel the remaining celery, carrots, parsnips, and parsley roots.
17. 17. Clean and wash the remaining leek.
18. 18. Cut the remaining vegetables into 2 cm cubes or slices.
19. 19. Remove the chicken from the soup.
20. 20. Remove the skin from the chicken.
21. 21. Separate the meat from the bones.
22. 22. Cut the meat into 2 cm cubes.
23. 23. Set the meat aside.
24. 24. Strain the chicken soup through a sieve into a second pot.
25. 25. Cook the diced vegetables in the broth over medium heat for 10-15 minutes.
26. 26. Cook the noodles in salted water.
27. 27. Drain the noodles.
28. 28. Hold the noodles briefly under running cold water to shock them.
29. 29. Add the noodles and meat to the chicken soup.
30. 30. Heat the soup again.
31. 31. Wash the lovage.
32. 32. Shake the lovage dry.
33. 33. Pluck the leaves off the lovage.
34. 34. Sprinkle the chicken soup with the leaves.
35. 35. Serve the soup.

Nutrition per serving

• kcal: 512
• Protein: 64 g · Fett/Fat: 13 g · Carbs: 32 g