Creamy chicken soup with homemade stock
It's worth taking the time to make the stock for this creamy and comforting soup, which can be frozen.
It's worth taking the time to make the stock for this creamy and comforting soup, which can be frozen.
If anyone in your family is feeling under the weather, chicken soup is the ultimate pick-me-up. It’s cheap, too, because this recipe uses the chicken carcasses your butcher usually throws away.
The key is to use homemade stock, which adds a depth and complexity (and richness, thanks to the gelatin the chicken bones impart) that no stock cube can hope to match.
You can boil the stock down to make the most delicious chicken gravy in the world, although you do need about six litres to make a decent gravy boat’s worth! You don’t add anything else; just boil it down until it is as thick and tasty as you like it.
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