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🍽️ Classic Chicken Soup with Lemon and Herbs
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 stalks (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. Thoroughly wash the chicken and place it in a large pot.
- 2. Cover the meat with 3 liters of water.
- 3. Bring the water to a boil.
- 4. Remove the rising foam from the surface using a skimmer.
- 5. Cut the onions in half without peeling them.
- 6. Roast the cut sides of the onions vigorously in a pan over high heat without fat.
- 7. Add the roasted onions to the skimmed broth.
- 8. Add bay leaves and peppercorns.
- 9. Add a pinch of salt to the soup.
- 10. Simmer the soup for 15 minutes over low heat.
- 11. Skim the soup again if necessary.
- 12. Peel and clean half of the celery.
- 13. Peel and clean half of the carrots.
- 14. Clean and wash half of the leek.
- 15. Cut the prepared vegetables into coarse cubes.
- 16. Add the vegetables to the pot.
- 17. Let the soup cook at medium heat without the lid for 1 1/2 hours.
- 18. Clean and peel the remaining celery.
- 19. Clean and peel the remaining carrots.
- 20. Clean and peel the parsnips.
- 21. Clean and peel the parsley roots.
- 22. Clean and wash the pumpkin.
- 23. Clean and wash the remaining leek.
- 24. Cut the remaining vegetables into 2 cm cubes or slices.
- 25. Take the chicken out of the soup.
- 26. Remove the skin from the chicken.
- 27. Carefully separate the meat from the bones.
- 28. Cut the chicken meat into 2 cm cubes.
- 29. Set the meat aside.
- 30. Strain the chicken soup into a second pot through a sieve.
- 31. Cook the diced vegetables in the broth over medium heat for 10-15 minutes.
- 32. Cook the noodles in salted water.
- 33. Drain the noodles.
- 34. Briefly hold the noodles under cold running water to shock them.
- 35. Add the noodles along with the meat to the soup.
- 36. Heat everything again.
- 37. Wash the lovage.
- 38. Shake the lovage dry.
- 39. Pluck the leaves off the lovage.
- 40. Serve the chicken soup sprinkled with the fresh leaves.
Nutrition per serving
- kcal: 512
- Protein: 64 g · Fett/Fat: 13 g · Carbs: 32 g