Saturday 2 May 2020

Chicken soup

Ingredients
3 chicken thighs
2 vegetable or chicken stock cubes
Large stick of celery
Carrots
Onions
Turnip
Pearl barley
Lentils
Savoy cabbage leaves
Large potato
Salt & pepper
Parsley

Put 3 chicken thighs into large pan
Add the stock cubes and cover with water
Add a coarsely chopped stick of celery
Large chunks of carrots
A large or two small onions, chopped in large chunks
Bring to the boil and simmer for one hour

Leave to cool
Strain
Remove the vegetables
Remove the chicken

Heat up the stock
Add finely chopped carrot, onion, turnip &c
Add 2 tablespoons of pearl barley
Add 2 tablespoons of lentils
Simmer gently until vegetables are cooked
Add 4 finely chopped leaves of (savoy) cabbage
Add one potato, chopped into large chunks
Season with salt and pepper 
Boil for another ten minutes
Add chopped chicken
and parsley