Chef Johns Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup Food

CHEF JOHN'S HOMEMADE CHICKEN NOODLE SOUP

Steps:

• Melt butter in a large soup pot over medium heat. Stir in carrot, onion, celery, salt, and fresh thyme. Stir in chicken fat; cook and stir until the onions turn soft and translucent, 5 to 6 minutes.
• Stir in roasted chicken broth and bring to a boil.
• Season to taste with salt, if necessary; stir in egg noodles and cook until tender, about 5 minutes.
• Stir in cooked chicken breast meat and simmer until heated through, about 5 minutes. Season with cayenne pepper, salt and black pepper to taste.

CHICKEN NOODLE SOUP

Steps:

• Place a soup pot over medium heat and coat with the oil. Add the onion, garlic, carrots, celery, thyme and bay leaf. Cook and stir for about 6 minutes, until the vegetables are softened but not browned. Pour in the chicken stock and bring the liquid to a boil. Add the noodles and simmer for 5 minutes until tender. Fold in the chicken, and continue to simmer for another couple of minutes to heat through; season with salt and pepper. Sprinkle with chopped parsley before serving.
• Place the chicken and vegetables in a large stockpot over medium heat. Pour in only enough cold water to cover (about 3 quarts); too much will make the broth taste weak. Toss in the thyme, bay leaves, and peppercorns, and allow it to slowly come to a boil. Lower the heat to medium-low and gently simmer for 1 to 1 1/2 hours, partially covered, until the chicken is done. As it cooks, skim any impurities that rise to the surface; add a little more water if necessary to keep the chicken covered while simmering.
• Carefully remove the chicken to a cutting board. When its cool enough to handle, discard the skin and bones; hand-shred the meat into a storage container.
• Carefully strain the stock through a fine sieve into another pot to remove the vegetable solids. Use the stock immediately or if you plan on storing it, place the pot in a sink full of ice water and stir to cool down the stock. Cover and refrigerate for up to one week or freeze.

HOMEMADE CHICKEN NOODLE SOUP

Steps:

• For Noodles: Mix egg, oil, salt, and water together.
• Add all purpose flour until it becomes a soft dough.
• Roll dough out on a floured surface to very thin.
• Let dry for at least 3 hours.
• Cut into small noodle sized strips.
• For soup: Cover chicken with water in a large stove top pot.
• Add chicken broth, carrots, celery, garlic and onions.
• Boil until chicken is done.
• Remove chicken and debone.
• Place chicken back in pot.
• Add additional water to soup mixture if needed, usually about 4 cups.
• Bring soup mixture to boil and then add noodles.
• Boil soup until noodles are soft and ready to eat.
• Salt and pepper to taste.

JO'S ULTIMATE - CHICKEN NOODLE SOUP - HOMEMADE

Steps:

• Chicken: (or purchase a precooked rotisserie style chicken).
• Rub the chicken with the salt, pepper and butter. Bake chicken for 70 minutes at 350 degrees F. When chicken is cooked and cooled - debone the chicken (don't be concerned if there is some meat undercooked at this time). Put the liquid from the baking dish in the bowl with the meat.
• For the Homemade Stock: (or use 6 cans or more of low sodium chicken broth).
• Put the bones and skin in a crockpot along with the celery,carrots, onion 10 peppercorns and parsley. These vegetables should be clean, but they do not have to be peeled - just broken. Put in approximately 6 cups of water to cover the bones, skin and vegetables. You may add in a smashed clove of garlic or two if desired. This will provide the broth for the soup, after you have cooked the skin, bones and vegetables for overnight or 14 hours, cool, strain and put into a large soup pot discard solids (bones, cooked vegetables). Add the reserved meat from the chicken with cooking juices, carrots, celery, onion, and parsley. Cook for 20 minutes in the chicken stock you have prepared, or in chicken stock that you have purchased. Salt and Pepper to taste. At this point you may add a package of frozen egg noodles, or dried noodles or make the following recipe, and be surprised how good and easy these noodles are.
• Egg Noodles - Homemade. (or use frozen egg noodles or dried egg noodles).
• makes about 1 lb.
• In the food processor add the flour and a pinch of salt - pulse a few times to combine. Crack the eggs into the work bowl of the processor, add a drizzle of olive oil and process until the flour is evenly moistened, but still crumbly - about 10 seconds. Add 1 T. of water at a time, if needed - process until the dough comes together to form a loose ball on top of the blade and feels moist, but not sticky when pinched, this should take about 30 seconds.
• Kneading the dough:.
• Sprinkle a clean work surface with flour, place the dough on top and knead by pushing it down and away from you, stretching it out. Fold the dough in half and continue kneading. Repeat until the dough no longer feels sticky and has a smooth surface. When the dough is smooth, wrap in plastic and let rest for 30 minutes at room temperature.
• Rolling the dough:.
• Cut the dough into 4 pieces. Keep the dough you ae not working with wrapped in plastic wrap. Using a hand cranked pasta machine, run 1 piece of dough through the widest setting on the machine. Flour the dough lightly if it starts to stick. Fold the dough into thirds, adjust the roller to the next narrower setting, and run the dough through again, repeat twice, lightly flouring as necessary, continue until you have a long, thin smooth sheet of pasta. Stop after the third to last setting for the noodles for this soup. If the sheets become too long to work with easily, cut them in half.
• Cutting the dough:.
• For the noodles in this recipe, use the fettuccine attachments, or cut the sheets yourself, using a pizza cutter and ruler, or with a long sharp knife. I usually cut my noodles into 2" lengths for this soup and about 1/3" wide - approximately.
• Cook the noodles by dropping them into the simmering soup. Add a handful at a time, stirring gently after each addition. Let them cook for about 10 minutes and then reduce heat. Your soup is ready. Garnish with sprigs of parsley if desired.
• Any leftovers can be frozen with great results.