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Chicken Soup

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Ingredients

  • 600g chicken (I recommend bone-in chicken thighs)
  • 1 carrot
  • Roughly 20cm of leek
  • Parsley root (Hard to find in the UK, sometimes I use parsnip instead)
  • Celery root
  • Ground pepper
  • Vegeta spice (vegetable spice, found in Polish sections of shops)
    • Use salt or vegetable boullion if you cannot find vegeta spice.

Steps

Fill a saucepan with 2.5L of water and add the chicken whilst the water is still cold. Turn on the heat to high and remove the foam when it appears - The soup will be cloudy without this step.

When the foam has disappeared add the vegetables, vegetable spice, and ground pepper. If you are not using vegetable spice add a bit of salt.

Leave it on a low heat for approximately 1.5 hours.

Once cooked, use a slotted spoon to remove the chicken. With the veg you have options - Some people cut them up and return them to the soup, others remove them entirely and discard them, and others will use a blender to blend the veg into the soup. It's your call.

As for the chicken, rather than wasting it I recommend you shred it. I keep this in a bowl in the fridge to fry the next day. It’s great in butter!