Home-style Chicken Noodle Soup
My husband is the Master of Soups, and has always been one to just throw ingredients into a pot and a Polish home-style delicious soup comes out.
Here is my attempt to take his most frequently used steps and non-measuring and documenting it for posterity! (Filling a pot with water until you’ve added ‘enough’ is not measuring for most of us 😉 )
What are vegeta and magi? They are ‘the secret ingredients to making every Polish soup amazing’ (direct quote from my husband). Vegeta is a vegetable bouillon powder that has become a staple in our kitchen. Magi is a condensed beef broth flavor bomb that my husband adds to everything! Use with caution, a little goes a long way.
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Home-style Chicken Noodle Soup
Equipment
- large saucepan
Ingredients
- 4 chicken thighs bone and skin on
- ½ yellow onion sliced
- 1 carrot diced
- 1 celery diced
- 2 Tbsp vegeta
- salt and pepper to taste
- 6 cups water
- 6 oz egg noodles
- 3 Tbsp butter
- 1 dash magi or to taste
Instructions
- Add butter to your saucepan and allow it to start melting. Add your onion, celery, and carrot (see note) and cook until the onions are thoroughly cooked down. You would like to see a fond beginning to form in the bottom of the pan (the pan starts to turn brown, but not burnt/black). This is flavor and you want to have a lot of it.
- Add water to deglaze the pan. Add vegeta (a vegetable bouilion powder) and chicken. Add additional water if necessary to cover the chicken.
- Bring the water to a boil then reduce to a simmer. Cover and boil for at least one hour.
- While the soup is boiling, boil you egg noodles in a separate pot of water per package instructions. Strain and set aside.
- Once the soup has boiled for at least one hour, remove the chicken and separate the meat from the skin and bones. Cut the chicken into bite-sized pieces and add back to the soup (or save for other recipes).
- Salt and pepper the soup to taste. Add the dash of Magi if desired. Stir in noodles and serve.
Notes
- Regarding the onions, celery, and carrot – what you’re really searching for here is mirepoix. This is a fancy term meaning 1 part celery, 1 part carrot, and 2 parts onion. Depending on the size of your onions and carrots, you may need to adjust to get the correct ratio.
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