Супы, основанные на курином бульоне, всегда get easy and very tasty. This is ideal for diet and low-calorie food, especially if it is not supplemented with any pasta. You can cook this soup with any seasonal vegetables, such as carrots, pumpkin, zucchini, celery, greens or mushrooms. The summer is delicious, fresh and easy. For a more satisfying option, you can make soup with dumplings in chicken broth, which creates a lot of room for culinary experiments.
What meat to choose for broth?
Pledge of good and tasty broth is fresher.meat. Nothing compares to the taste of poultry, the soup from it turns out just awesome, but not everyone has the opportunity to purchase it, let alone grow it. Therefore, most often we buy store chickens grown on poultry farms. Choosing it on the market or in the store, it is best to give preference to fresh, chilled, it is advisable to buy from a reliable seller. Healthy and fresh poultry meat should be light pink or white in color, skin thin and not damaged, there should not be any mucus on the surface. You can, of course, use the frozen carcass. In this case, it must first be defrosted at room temperature. Frozen meat often loses its texture, ice crystals break the fibers, and the taste changes, and not for the better, besides, some unscrupulous manufacturers purposefully pump the carcass with water, which, by the way, can be seen with the naked eye, through numerous punctures on the skin . This leads to significant weight loss during thawing.
Cook in whole or in part?
Cooking chicken broth is not difficult with this.cope even the novice mistress. But there are a few nuances worth knowing. Cooking broth is best from whole chicken, not from wings, breast or back. The carcass must first be washed in cold water, carefully, so that no blood clots remain, as this will impede further transparency.
For a chicken weighing about a kilogram you need 5liters of water. Meat is laid in cold water and then brought to a boil. The foam which forms on the surface is not necessary to remove, since then it will still settle, and the broth will have to be drained. It is also impossible to allow a strong boil, the surface should only shake slightly. Cooking on average takes about an hour or more. Around this time, you can lay vegetables and spices. The best addition to chicken broth will be onions, carrots, celery. Vegetables are best not to cut and cook whole, then remove.
If you want to get a deep amber-colored broth, then carrots and onions (whole) should be lightly roasted until golden brown in a frying pan without oil and then used for soup.
Of spices, give preference not tooobsessive tastes, for example, you can use black peppercorns, dill, parsley. At the same time, bright and fluffy greens can be left for serving, and the stems can be cooked in broth. From the allspice or cloves is best to give up, as they kill the delicate taste of chicken.
After the meat is ready, remove the broth.from the fire. The chicken is removed, allowed to cool slightly and divided into portioned pieces. Broth gently filtered - this is an excellent basis for cooking chicken soup with chicken dumplings (or dumplings).
How to cook dumplings for soup?
Dumpling is a traditional Europeanan invention, very nutritious flour products, popular not only in soups, but also as a separate dish, for example, as a side dish for meat. Czech dumplings or Ukrainian dumplings are their direct relatives. Most popular in our country are potato dumplings, which will be a great addition to a light vegetable soup in chicken broth. Consider several options for their preparation, as well as chicken meat dumplings. If you touch the question of how to cook dumplings for soup from potatoes or chicken, from dough, then there are many options, each housewife selects to suit your taste. Someone prefers to use raw potatoes, and someone boiled. And he and the other option has the right to exist. But in any case, the soup with dumplings in chicken broth will be very satisfying.
Boiled Potato Dumplings
It is necessary to boil about ten cleaned large ones.potato until ready. Drain and crush the water, let it cool. Then add three chicken yolks, one and a half cups of flour, salt and knead a homogeneous dough. Roll it into a bundle and cut into small pieces - this is what future dumplings need to be boiled in salted water for 5-10 minutes, and then add 3-4 pieces in a batch to the plate. Soup with dumplings in chicken broth perfectly diversifies the lunch menu and will be almost the most favorite.
Raw Potato Dumplings
The second option involves the use of rawpotato For this you need to grate on a fine grater and how to squeeze out excess fluid. Then add half a cup of hot milk, a glass of flour, one egg, salt, pepper to the mass and knead the dough. In boiling water, gently lower the spoon-shaped dumplings and cook until ready for about 6-7 minutes.
You can diversify such dumplings with differentfillings: of mushrooms, cheese, minced chicken. Only you first need to boil all the ingredients and mince or chop finely. Soup with potato dumplings in chicken broth will appeal to children and will delight adults, very nourishing and rich is perfect for a winter lunch.
Chicken Dumplings
They are called quenelles, meatballs, dumplings, butThe essence remains the same. To cook them, you will need chicken fillet (breast). You can separate it from the whole carcass, which is intended for broth. Meat should be turned into mince, then add onions, spices and one egg. Then there are two options. You can make meatballs from it, and then lower them into the broth and cook until ready. Either form them with the help of a spoon and cook them in the oven, and only then arrange them into plates with ready-made soup. In any case, it turns out excellent to taste and original in appearance soup with dumplings. Step-by-step recipe of cooking will help you to do everything correctly and please your home with a delicious dinner. Nobody will refuse an additive!
Chicken soup with dumplings: a recipe
First you should use the simplestrecipe, and then proceed to culinary experiments. It is best to remove the skin and do not use it when serving. So, given that the chicken is already cooked, dumplings are cooked and the broth is filtered, let's proceed to the "assembly" of the soup. The finished chicken carcass must be divided into pieces and carefully remove the meat from the bones, putting everything in a separate dish. In the future, it will have to be layered on plates. Chicken broth dumpling soup can be prepared in two simple ways.
Option one: carrots and celery already cooked in broth
Из сырых овощей необходимы только картофель и лук (green), since the boiled one has already given all its taste, it will not be needed anymore. Ready carrots and celery should be crumbled and set aside for a while. Peel potatoes, cut into cubes and put into boiling broth, cook until half cooked, then add finely chopped onions and cook for about five minutes. Remove the soup from the heat, add carrots and celery. Mix thoroughly, let stand for five minutes and only then pour into saucers, not forgetting to put chicken meat, dumplings in each portion and sprinkle with plenty of greens.
This soup is good because you can add any vegetables to taste: bell pepper, zucchini, tomatoes, cauliflower or Brussels sprouts, pumpkin.
Option Two: if there is only chicken broth
Considering that the broth from the whole chicken is obtainedabout four liters, it is best to divide it into two portions, especially since it will be perfectly stored in the refrigerator and the next day you can cook fresh soup or make a sauce based on it for dinner.
So, in this case, all the vegetables (for twoliters: one carrot, 2-3 potatoes, one onion, bell pepper, celery, you can add pumpkin 200-300 g) must be cleaned and cut into cubes.
Next, bring the chicken broth to a light boil,add carrots and cook for about 3-4 minutes, then lay the potatoes (pumpkin), celery and cook until vegetables are ready. About five minutes before the end of cooking, add the finely chopped onion. After removing from the heat, let the soup stand for a while and then serve in the same way as in the first case.
Приготовить куриный суп с клецками в мультиварке or on the stove is easy enough, it does not take much time, and he definitely will like and taste the household. Efficiency in a set of products, a minimum of calories and a maximum of pleasure - a great combination.
