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Chicken soup

The one you make when the world is being difficult.

Chicken soup
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How to make chicken soup

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From a whole chicken

120 minutes · serves 4 · Easy

What you need

  • 1 chicken carcass or 4 thighs
  • 2 carrots
  • 2 celery sticks
  • 1 onion
  • Bay leaf
  • Handful of noodles or rice
  • Parsley

What you do

  1. 1Cover the chicken and halved vegetables with cold water. Bring up slowly and skim the foam.
  2. 2Simmer, barely bubbling, for 90 minutes. A rolling boil makes it cloudy.
  3. 3Strain, pull the meat off, dice fresh vegetables and cook them in the broth until tender.
  4. 4Return the meat, add noodles, and season properly at the very end.

Thirty-minute version

30 minutes · serves 2 · Very easy

What you need

  • 2 chicken breasts
  • 1L good stock
  • 2 carrots, sliced
  • 1 leek
  • Handful of noodles
  • Lemon

What you do

  1. 1Simmer the whole chicken breasts in the stock for 15 minutes, then lift out and shred.
  2. 2Cook the sliced vegetables in the same stock until just tender.
  3. 3Add the noodles for their packet time, return the chicken.
  4. 4Squeeze in lemon at the end.