Chicken and Vegetable Soup

This is a little made up recipe that created itself over the weekend as we had a picnic out and I had a roast chicken which I made into some sandwiches.

So I saved the carcus and I thought I might just make some chicken stock.

I put the carcus into a large pot and covered it with filtered water.

I added some chopped celery about 4 stalks, about 4 carrots, 2 onions, 6 garlic cloves a little salt and pepper.

I also put in some extra chicken breasts for added flavour (and I wanted some for sandwiches). I cooked this (simmer on low heat) for a few hours to reduce the liquid. When reduced, I strained off all the liquid and removed the bones. It was at this time that I thought it tasted DELICIOUS so decided to have it as soup rather than Stock! At this point, you could just leave the soup as is or blend it up (which is what I chose to do). I then just added the chicken that had fallen off the bones during cooking. I also pulled apart one of the chicken breasts and added this to the soup too. This went down such a treat that I decided to make some more this weekend! I didn’t have any chicken bones so I just used 3 chicken breasts.

The boiled chicken breasts end up being so succulent and all the flavour from the soup goes into them. They pull apart so easily and are just so scrumptious in a salad sandwich! Two meals in one!

Notes:

Feel free to add any other vegies as desired or some noodles at the last stage for some chicken noodle soup (the kids love this).

A can of creamed corn is also a wonderful addition!

Enjoy!

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