Homemade Chicken Soup Recipe

Homemade Chicken Soup Recipe is great especially on a cold day. I found this a chicken soup recipe in a cookbook and after some experimenting came up with my own chicken soup recipe. It is extremely easy to cook and delicious and healthy. Just imagine, on a cold day, a bowl of hot chicken soup in your hand and you are watching your favorite program on the TV (or maybe the all-time favorite Fashion TV with all your favorite models out there). Isn't that YUMMY!

OK, let us now learn how to cook this chicken soup recipe:

INGREDIENTS

• 1 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 whole chicken with breasts removed and reserved
• 2 onions
• 2 quarts boiling water
• Salt to taste
• 1 celery stalk
• 2 bay leaves
• 1 large carrot
• 1/4 cup fresh parsley leaves
• 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
• Ground pepper

How to cook

1. Dice the onion and peel and cut the carrots. Also cut the celery stalk into half-inch pieces.

2. Mince the fresh parsley leaves.

3. Heat olive oil in a soup pot and sauté the breasts until they are light brown.

4. Add half of the onions and sauté until translucent. Remove and set aside.

5. Cut up the chicken (not the breasts) into small pieces with a chef's knife.

6. Add the pieces of chicken to the pot, and cook for about 8 to 10 minutes.

7. Return the onion to the pot, reduce the heat to low, cover, and simmer for about 20 minutes until the chicken releases its juices.

8. Add boiling water, pieces of reserved chicken breasts, 2 teaspoons of salt, and bay leaves. Cover and simmer until chicken breasts are cooked.

9. Remove chicken breasts and set aside. Strain and reserve broth. Skim fat from the broth, reserving 2 tablespoons to be used to cook the vegetables. Add the reserved fat to the soup pot and sauté the remaining onions along with the carrot and celery for about 5 minutes or so.

10. When the chicken breasts are cool enough to handle, remove and discard the skin and bones. Shred the breast meat into bite sized pieces and add to the pot. Add thyme and reserved broth; simmer until the vegetables are tender. 11. Season with salt and pepper, add parsley and serve.

Now go and prepare this HOT Chicken Soup and enjoy it watching your favorite HOT program on the TV.