Saturday, 12 February 2011

Chicken Noodle Soup

Ingredients: Chilli oil (home-made), celery, chicken thighs, coriander, carrots, golden shallots (Thai ingredient, noodles, chicken stock in a can, chicken stock cubes, garlic

Heated the casserole in the oven

Raw chicken about to be roasted. There's chilli oil in the bottom of the pan. (Six thighs in total.)

After the chicken has roasted, the stock is poured in. Onions, bay leaf, and golden shallots have been added. The lid is put on and it simmers gently for about 3 hours.

After simmering. The meat is removed, and the rest is poured through a sieve to remove the onions etc.


Supporting cast: Noodles boiling, carrots frying with caraway seeds and garlic in goose fat.

The roasted and boiled chicken is
shredded into three piles: Skin for cats, meat for soup, bones for discard.


Arty angle on the finished soup

Sensible angle on the finished soup, with coriander leaves stirred in