Pennsylvania Dutch Chicken Soup Food

PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH CHICKEN CORN SOUP

Steps:

• In a big soup pot, melt butter over med-high heat; add in onion and celery; saute 3 minutes.
• Add in corn; continue to cook, stirring, 5 minutes.
• Add in broth; decrease heat to medium and simmer 30 minutes; stir chicken pieces into broth.
• Bring soup to a boil over high heat.
• Pour flour into a bowl.
• Beat egg and water together; add to flour, stirring into a thin paste.
• With a fork or medium-gauge sieve, drizzle flour mixture into boiling soup.
• Decrease heat to medium; stir gently; cook 10 minutes longer.
• Season with salt and pepper to taste.

PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH CHICKEN CORN NOODLE SOUP

Steps:

• Rinse chicken and place in large pot and cover with water.
• Add salt.
• Bring to boil, reduce heat and simmer for 1 1/2 hours.
• Slice celery and carrots and chop the onions and parsley.
• Remove chicken and set aside to cool.
• Add celery, carrots, corn and onion.
• Remove chicken meat from bone. Discard bones and skin and add meat to the pot.
• Bring back to boil and simmer for 20 minutes.
• Add egg noodles and chopped parsley.
• Bring back to boil and simmer for 10 minutes.
• Turn off heat and allow to sit for 15 minutes.
• Add addional water if needed to desired consitency.
• Add additional salt to taste if needed.
• Enjoy.

PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH CORN AND CHICKEN SOUP

Steps:

• 1. Combine 2 c corn and 2 c broth in blender and puree till smooth. Melt butter in Dutch oven over med-high heat. Cook onion,celery,remaining corn and 1/2 tsp salt until softened,5 - 7 minutes.
• 2. Stir in remaining broth,chicken noodles and pureed corn mixture. Bring to boil, then reduce heat to med. and simmer until noodles are tender, and chicken is cooked through,6-8 minutes Season with salt and pepper and serve.

PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH CHICKEN CORN SOUP

Steps:

• Bring to a boil in a soup pot: first 6 ingredients.
• Skim the impurities from the surface.
• Reduce the heat and simmer, covered, until the chicken is well cooked, about 1 hour (I used frozen breast that cooked in about 30 minutes).
• Remove the chicken, shred the meat, and set aside.
• (At this point you can remove the surface fat with a small ladle.) Bring the stock to a boil.
• Stir in: Noodles and Corn.
• Cook, stirring occasionally, until the noodles are tender but firm.
• Stir in the shredded chicken along with: Eggs and parsley.
• Ladle into warm bowls and serve with dinner rolls.

PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH CHICKEN CORN SOUP WITH RIVELS

Steps:

• Boil chicken with onion, salt and pepper in 3 quarts of water until tender.
• While chicken is boiling, chop eggs so they are ready.
• (I boil my eggs the night before).
• Remove chicken from bones, shred or cut into pieces.
• Add corn to broth and cook to doneness.
• Meanwhile make the rivels: Mix one raw egg and 1 cup of flour with fork and use your fingers to make crumbs.
• Add this slowly to boiling corn and broth and boil for 15 minutes more.
• Add chicken and parsley.
• The hard cooked eggs are added now, if desired.
• ***Ifyou are going to freeze any of the soup, do not add the hard cooked eggs to that portion.
• They do not freeze well at all and will ruin the soup.