My Grandmothers Chicken Soup!. Pepper Bay leaf (optional) Sprinkle dehydrated. Bobbi Carducci, a Chicken Soup for the Soul contributing writer, is not only an award winning short story writer. She is the author of Storee Wryter gets a Dog, a book for young readers that encourages them to serve others and inspires them to Gave to my grandmother for Christmas and she loved it!
I remember my grandmother making this soup every time we went to visit. The memories come back every time I make this soup. This savory, homemade chicken noodle soup made with chicken broth, egg noodles, vegetables, and chicken is a real people pleaser. You can cook My Grandmothers Chicken Soup! using 9 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of My Grandmothers Chicken Soup!
- Prepare 9 lb of whole Perdue Chicken (look for a real yellow perdue chicken, that means it has more flavorful fat. Perdue is the best tasting for soup stock (in my opinion).
- Prepare 1 of med. sweet onion (skin on).
- You need 1 stick of carrot (washed with skin on).
- It's 1 bunch of Italian flat leaf parsley (wrap in string).
- Prepare 1 of enough water to cover 2 inches above chicken.
- It's 1 bunch of celery leaves (on inside of celery bunch, leaves only. wrap in string).
- You need 1 packages of carrots (from the ground, not small bag of carrots ready to eat).
- Prepare 3 packages of Mrs. Weiss egg noodles (thin or wide).
- You need 1 box of G Washingtons Golden chicken broth (I use 6 to 7 packets but you can use as much or a little as you'd like) you get 8 packets in one box.
This is a recipe that was given to me by my grandmother. It is a very savory and tasty soup and I believe that all will like it. If you would like to add even more flavor. She most likely used her own home.
My Grandmothers Chicken Soup! step by step
- Wash chicken in cold water, put in stock pot. Cover chicken with water 2 inches above chicken. Add whole onion, parsley, celery leaves and carrot. Cook at SLOW boil for 1 1/2 hours, skimming brown stuff off the top in the 1st 15 minutes of boiling. While thats cooking, make your noodles and carrots..
- Remove chicken (save to cut up when cooled) discard carrot, celery and parsley bunch, onion. Pour soup through small strainer into another pot. Add 6 to 7 packets of g Washington chicken broth and stir till dissolved. Chicken soup broth, Noodles, Chicken & carrots are all stored separately until ready to eat. (Im not sure about how many servings) its a big pot! :).
My grandmother, a Sefardic Jew from Algeria, imbued every dish with flavor and could whip up shakshukas and fruit I thought of this soup and decided to make it. I called my grandmother for the recipe. Once all the veggies are in, you cover it with water (you can use chicken broth too, but my. Traditional Jewish chicken soup aka "Jewish Penicillin" is loved for it's golden, clear broth full of nutrients to revive you right out of your sick bed! It makes sense why homemade Jewish chicken soup is also famously known as "Jewish Penicillin".
