Country Classic Chicken Rivel Soup Food

RIVEL SOUP

Steps:

• In a small bowl, combine flour and salt. Cut in egg with a fork until crumbly., In a large saucepan, heat milk over medium heat until bubbles form around sides of pan. Gradually add flour mixture; bring to a gentle boil, stirring constantly. Cook and stir for 1-2 minutes or until rivels are cooked through. Sprinkle servings with parsley and pepper.

CHICKEN CORN RIVEL SOUP

Steps:

• Pat the thighs dry with paper towels, and season with salt and pepper. Heat the oil over medium-high heat until just smoking. Working in two batches, cook the thighs, skin side down, until a deep golden brown, about 6 minutes. Turn the thighs and lightly brown the second side, about 2 minutes. Transfer to a paper-towel-lined plate.
• Pour off all but 1 tablespoon fat from the pot. Cook the onion and celery over medium heat until softened, about 5 minutes. Meanwhile, remove and discard any skin from the thighs.
• Add the thighs, water, bay leaves, saffron and 1 tablespoons salt to the pot. Cover and simmer until the broth is flavorful, about 30 minutes. Add the chicken breasts and simmer until cooked through, about 25 minutes.
• Strain the broth into a large container, let stand at least 10 minutes, then skin the fat from the surface. Meanwhile, transfer the chicken to a cutting board to cool. Reserve the thigh meat for another use. Shred the breast meat and reserve for the soup.
• Melt the butter in a small saucepan over medium heat until nutty brown , about 3 minutes. Let cool. Add the broth to the now empty Dutch oven and set over medium-high heat. When the broth comes to a simmer, place the flour in a bowl, amd make a well in the center. Add the yolk mixture and 2 tablespoons of the browned butter to the well and , using your hands, mix until incorporated. Use your fingers for forming the dough into 1/2 -inch rivels or dumplings. Add the rivels , one at a time, to the simmering soup. Gently stir in the corn and reserved shredded chicken and simner until the rivels are tender, 15-20 minutes. Serve, drizzling each portiionith the remaining browned butter.

CLASSIC HOMEMADE CHICKEN SOUP

Steps:

• Cut up your chicken into pieces (thighs, legs, breasts, etc) and place in a large stock pot.
• Fill with cold water to cover and put on high heat as you assemble the rest of the ingredients.
• Cut up all of your veggies. You can do this any way you like, but I like to leave these in large pieces so they don't get too mushy during the long cooking time.
• You can tie your dill and parsley together if you like.
• Put all the veggies and herbs into the pot.
• Add extra water if needed.
• Bring to a boil, and then let simmer.
• Simmer for 2-4 hours*.
• *The cook time is largely up to you. I like to cook mine for many hours to get all of the flavors out of the chicken, but really, once the chicken is cooked through, you can take it off the fire.
• If you prefer to have smaller pieces of carrots, potatoes, or celery in your soup, dice as much as you want and put it into the pot 30-40 minutes before it's done.
• ***TIP: There will be A LOT of fat on the top of this soup from the chicken skin. Traditionally, you would cook this the day before, refrigerate over night, and then remove the hardened fat layer. Easy as pie. But, if you want it the same day, you will have to skim the fat as the cooking progresses. So watch the soup over the 2-4 hours of cooking and skim as you go.
• Add salt and pepper to taste. (you will need a lot of salt. Don't fret. Start off with a teaspoon. Taste. Add another pinch. Taste. Add. And so on until you reach desired flavor.
• Take all the chicken out of the pot and remove the meat from the bones and skin. Discard the bones and skin. You can replace the meat into the pot or leave it on the side for people to put into their individual bowls.
• Make egg noodles, rice, or dumplings to accompany.
• Eat and enjoy.

CHICKEN CORN SOUP WITH RIVELS

Steps:

• Put chicken in a pot with the water, bring to a boil, then cover and simmer until tender.
• Remove chicken from broth.
• Discard skin and cut meat into bite size pieces.
• Put back into broth.
• Add everything else except for chopped egg and parsley.
• Bring to a boil.
• Cook for 15 minutes until vegetables are soft, while you make the rivels.
• Make the rivels by rubbing flour and egg together into crumbs.
• Add milk if necessary.
• Should be dry and crumbly.
• Drop into boiling soup, stirring to prevent clumping.
• Cover and simmer for 7 minutes.
• Add chopped egg and parsley.
• Serve and pass cream to be poured into soup.

CHICKEN CORN SOUP WITH RIVELS

Steps:

• Combine chicken, corn, broth, water, and seasonings in a stock pot or dutch oven.
• Heat to boiling. Reduce heat and cook three to four minutes until corn is tender.
• Meanwhile, combine flour and raw egg to make rivels. Mix by hand until consistency of pie dough crumbs. Add extra flour if dough is too sticky.
• Slowly add rivels to boiling soup by crumbling into soup with hands while stirring constantly.
• Cook about five minutes and then stir in hard-boiled eggs.