Grandma's Chicken Noodle Soup
photo by Chili Dan
- Ready In:
- 1hr 10mins
- Ingredients:
- 24
- Serves:
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2-3
ingredients
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Stock
- 1 lb dark chicken meat, skin on
- 1⁄2 lb chicken breast, skin on
- 5 cups water
- 1 small onion, quartered
- 1 carrot, peeled,cut in 5 pieces
- 1 stalk celery, cut in 5 pieces
- 1⁄8 cup parsley stems, reserve sprigs
- 2 whole peppercorns
- 2 whole cloves
- 1⁄2 tablespoon fresh thyme, minced or 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme leaves
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Noodles
- 1 1⁄2 cups flour
- 2 eggs
- 2 teaspoons olive oil
- 2 teaspoons water
- 2 tablespoons fresh oregano, minced or 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- 2 tablespoons parmesan cheese
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
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Soup
- 2 cups canned best quality low sodium chicken broth or 2 cups homemade chicken stock
- 1 carrot, peeled,sliced very thinly
- 1⁄4 cup frozen peas, thawed
- 1 tablespoon parsley sprig, minced
- 2 tablespoons freshly grated parmesan cheese
- generous grinding pepper
- salt
directions
- Stock: Cut away any obvious fat from chicken and place only dark meat chicken parts in Dutch oven or stockpot; add water, onion, carrot, celery, parsley stems, peppercorns and cloves.
- Bring to boil, skim off foam at top and then add thyme; reduce heat to simmer; simmer 20 minutes and then add chicken breast; simmer another 25 minutes until chicken is tender.
- Remove the chicken but continue to simmer broth; as soon as chicken is cool enough to handle, remove meat from bones and return bones to broth; simmer another 20 minutes.
- Noodles: While the chicken and stock are simmering, make the noodles; in a food processor, process flour, eggs, oil, water, oregano, cheese and salt 45-60 seconds to mix and knead the pasta; (if making the pasta by hand, place flour on work surface and make a well in the center; add the other ingredients to the well and mix with hands to form dough; knead on floured surface for 10 minutes); cover dough and let rest 10-20 minutes.
- Divide dough in half and roll each as thinly as possible to a 14" square; trim the edges to make somewhat straight; lightly flour the surface of the dough; roll each square loosely, as for a jelly roll; cut each roll with sharp knife into 1/4" slices; shake slices open.
- Lay half of the noodles flat in a loose, overlapping mound; cut into 2" lengths and spread them out to dry for about 15 minutes; lay the other half of the noodles out flat to dry or drape on pasta dryer; when noodles are somewhat dry and do not stick together, roll in several loose circles of a few noodles each and seal in platic bag in a single layer; use in another dish of your choice within 2-3 days.
- Soup: Strain broth and return to pot; add stock and bring to a boil; add carrots and cook 2 minutes; add peas and noodles and cook another 2 minutes; add chicken, parsley, parmesan and salt and pepper to taste.
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Reviews
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I save the part of vegies that most would throw away. place them in a zip lock freezer bag and save for stock making. I even put broccoli stems and asparagus stems in. Turned out great. even my grandma loves it.
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Holy Crap. This is good chicken noodle. This soup taught me the difference between soup cooked with patience and quick soup. This recipe is my only 5 star rating on recipezaar. Definitely use chicken on the bone. I recommend simmering the stock once the bones are in it for at least an hour, if not all day. I didn't have any parmesan, I only had ground cloves, and I added fresh bay leaf to the stock. I also added more carrots and celery and some onion with the pasta. And I didn't make the fresh pasta, but I will next time. Fortunately, I made a gallon of it. My camping-mates will be very pleased.
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Made this today and loved it. I've never made homemade noodles before and I do have a pasta attachment to my mixer. I used it and it was easy and fun. I added 1/2 tsp poultry seasonging to the soup. It was delicious and much easier than I thought it be. Gloria
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first i thought i was the only one that uses cloves the smell the taste i can not rave enough about this soup the only thing i did diffrent was i placed the chicken an cloves in a pressure cooker. If you want a good soup this is the only one that i have found that even comes close to my gradmothers thank you for this soup the taste is so great the smell it is just good SYMBA
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I’m a former interior designer and landscape designer. At the moment I get to enjoy being at home and working only when I want to. I like rollerblading, hiking, backpacking and trips to the ocean. I grew up on a farm in the Midwest and moved to the Northwest when I was thirty, over twenty years ago. I’m afraid they’ll have to bury me here in WA. This is God’s country and I’m never leaving.
I have a smallish collection of cookbooks, preferring to use the library and a copy machine. Among my favorites though, are: Recipes 1-2-3, by Rozanne Gold, a collection of recipes containing no more than 3 ingredients (excepting water, salt and pepper); A Treasury of Great Recipes, by Mary and Vincent Price, recipes collected from friends and chefs of great restaurants around the world; The Mediterranean Diet Cookbook, by Nancy Harmon Jenkins, about a collection of cuisines I’m convinced are the healthiest in the world and The Low-Calorie Gourmet, by Pierre Franey.
Currently my passions are our dogs, the garden, cooking, the natural world and of course, Dh. I can now add Zaar to that list of passions (translate: addiction). We have three dogs, two rescued and one adopted. They are Sugarpea, a Golden Retriever, Chickpea, a Llasa Apso and Sweetpea, a Shih Tzu; small, medium and large. We’re quite a sight out on the trail. One of the things I am most fond of about living here is the ability to vegetable garden year ‘round.
