My Grandmothers Chicken Soup!. Bobbi Carducci, a Chicken Soup for the Soul contributing writer, is not only an award winning short story writer. While I am an adult she still loves this, as do I. Gave to my grandmother for Christmas and she loved it!
Cold-busting, flavor-packed homemade chicken soup recipe.
This soup is as close to comfort food as it gets.
I remember my grandmother making this soup every time we went to visit.
You can cook My Grandmothers Chicken Soup! using 9 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of My Grandmothers Chicken Soup!
- You need 9 lb of whole Perdue Chicken (look for a real yellow perdue chicken, that means it has more flavorful fat. Perdue is the best tasting for soup stock (in my opinion).
- Prepare 1 of med. sweet onion (skin on).
- Prepare 1 stick of carrot (washed with skin on).
- Prepare 1 bunch of Italian flat leaf parsley (wrap in string).
- Prepare 1 of enough water to cover 2 inches above chicken.
- You need 1 bunch of celery leaves (on inside of celery bunch, leaves only. wrap in string).
- Prepare 1 packages of carrots (from the ground, not small bag of carrots ready to eat).
- You need 3 packages of Mrs. Weiss egg noodles (thin or wide).
- It's 1 box of G Washingtons Golden chicken broth (I use 6 to 7 packets but you can use as much or a little as you'd like) you get 8 packets in one box.
This savory, homemade chicken noodle soup made with chicken broth, egg noodles, vegetables, and chicken is a real people pleaser. This is a recipe that was given to me by my grandmother. It is a very savory and tasty soup and I believe that all will like it. She most likely used her own home.
My Grandmothers Chicken Soup! step by step
- Wash chicken in cold water, put in stock pot. Cover chicken with water 2 inches above chicken. Add whole onion, parsley, celery leaves and carrot. Cook at SLOW boil for 1 1/2 hours, skimming brown stuff off the top in the 1st 15 minutes of boiling. While thats cooking, make your noodles and carrots..
- Remove chicken (save to cut up when cooled) discard carrot, celery and parsley bunch, onion. Pour soup through small strainer into another pot. Add 6 to 7 packets of g Washington chicken broth and stir till dissolved. Chicken soup broth, Noodles, Chicken & carrots are all stored separately until ready to eat. (Im not sure about how many servings) its a big pot! :).
Chicken Soup for the Grandma's Soul: Stories to Honor and Celebrate the Ageless Love of Grandmothers. My grandmother, a Sefardic Jew from Algeria, imbued every dish with flavor and could whip up shakshukas and fruit I thought of this soup and decided to make it. I called my grandmother for the recipe. Once all the veggies are in, you cover it with water (you can use chicken broth too, but my. For generations, Jewish grandmothers have spent hours and hours chained to their stoves perfecting their family chicken soup recipes.