Great homemade chicken soup!

[Woodznutz]

Chicken wings! Parboil those wings until tender before breading and deep frying them. The stock makes the best chicken soup. Freeze or refrigerate until you have enough to make a nice pot o' soup.

 

[1srelluc]

I just buy a Costco chicken, remove/reserve the breast meat. Then bone out/reserve the leg/thigh meat.

Toss the rest (bones and all) in a pot and boil it down to stock.....Remove the carcass, add a quart of Kirkland chicken stock and whatever else I want as spices. Usually just onions, celery, and shaved carrot.

Boil that for a while then add noodles and the reserved leg/thigh meat.

Bring all that to a boil and then cut it off, letting the noodles temper but not get too soggy.

I like to let it sit a couple hours then re-heat before serving.

The reserved breast meat either gets made into sandwiches or chopped-up for my most excellent chicken salad.

The bones get fed to "my" yard possum.

 

[Muhammed]

I just buy a Costco chicken, remove/reserve the breast meat. Then bone out/reserve the leg/thigh meat.

Toss the rest (bones and all) in a pot and boil it down to stock.....Remove the carcass, add a quart of Kirkland chicken stock and whatever else I want as spices. Usually just onions, celery, and shaved carrot.

Boil that for a while then add noodles and the reserved leg/thigh meat.

Bring all that to a boil and then cut it off, letting the noodles temper but not get too soggy.

I like to let it sit a couple hours then re-heat before serving.

The reserved breast meat either gets made into sandwiches or chopped-up for my most excellent chicken salad.

The bones get fed to "my" yard possum.

Mine is very similar to that. Except I shred the breast meat and put it in the soup. And I also use plenty of garlic and mushrooms.

The mushrooms are really cheap because I grow them in my crawlspace.

 

[skye]

I'm hungry now.

 

[1srelluc]

Mine is very similar to that. Except I shred the breast meat and put it in the soup. And I also use plenty of garlic and mushrooms.

The mushrooms are really cheap because I grow them in my crawlspace.

I dislike mushrooms and use as little garlic as I can get by with.

LOL.....I just can't force myself to put a tasty Costco rotisserie chicken breast in soup....Seems such a waste.

Of course that really makes no sense because I use cubed ribeye steak for my vegetable beef soup.

 

[Muhammed]

I dislike mushrooms and use as little garlic as I can get by with.

LOL.....I just can't force myself to put a tasty Costco rotisserie chicken breast in soup....Seems such a waste.

Of course that really makes no sense because I use cubed ribeye steak for my vegetable beef soup.

I see. You buy a pre-cooked rotisserie chicken and use that. I've never tried that. I just buy a raw chicken and cook it in my 8 quart Instant Pot Pro Crisp.

Before I used to brown the chicken in the oven, but this Instant Pot Pro Crisp has two lids. One of them is a normal pressure cooker lid, but the other lid is this big dome with a fan and heating element in it that turns the unit into an air fryer. So now I brown the chicken with that.

 

[1srelluc]

I see. You buy a pre-cooked rotisserie chicken and use that. I've never tried that. I just buy a raw chicken and cook it in my 8 quart Instant Pot Pro Crisp.

Before I used to brown the chicken in the oven, but this Instant Pot Pro Crisp has two lids. One of them is a normal pressure cooker lid, but the other lid is this big dome with a fan and heating element in it that turns the unit into an air fryer. So now I brown the chicken with that.

Yeah, it's cheap enough (under $5.00) and cuts out the browning "middleman".