Old Fashioned Chicken Paprikash Soup Food

OLD FASHIONED CHICKEN SOUP

Steps:

• Heat oil in large heavy pot. Cook onion and celery until translucent. Season chicken pieces liberally with salt and pepper. Place chicken skin side down in pot and brown, about 5 minutes. Add carrots and cover with water. Bring to a simmer and cook for 1 hour. Remove chicken from soup and let cool. Remove meat from bones and shred, discard skin. Return meat to pot and stir in parsley and noodles. Cook for another 20 minutes.

CHICKEN PAPRIKASH SOUP WITH SPAETZLE

Steps:

• In a 3 quart pot, melt the butter; add onion and garlic and cook on low heat until onions are soft and translucent.
• Add the paprika, thyme, and flour and stir until the onions are coated, about 2-3 minutes.
• Whisk in the stock and cook until soup thickens. Simmer on low for 30 minutes.
• Add the chicken and spaetzle (recipe below) and salt and pepper.
• Use a ladle to set aside a small amount of soup. Mix the sour cream with the small amount of reserved soup, and then add the whole mixture into the large pot of soup. This allows the temperature of the sour cream to adjust gradually. Adjust seasoning if necessary.
• For the homemade spaetzle, if you are using: While the soup is cooking, put a large pot or pan of water on to boil.
• Combine spaetzle ingredients until they are smooth.
• Run the thick batter through a spaetzle maker or a colander. Drop into the boiling water, and remove the noodles when they float.
• Add directly to the hot soup.

CHICKEN PAPRIKASH (AKA: SOUR CREAM SOUP)

Steps:

• -Ina large pot place in enough oil to brown chicken pieces on both sides (only for a few minutes on each side).
• -Afteryou browned the chicken add enough water to go over chicken (around an inch over chicken).
• Add Salt and Pepper.
• -Addin onions.
• Bring to a boil then let simmer until chicken in tender and done (around an hour).
• -Removechicken and set aside.
• -Addthe Paprika to pot then stir in Sour Cream.
• -Placecooked chicken back into pot and cook around 30 minutes more (until you get the thickness of the sauce you like).
• -Addover cooked Linguini.
• If you like to save a few calories use Light Sour Cream or Yogurt.