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Substitute the cornstarch slurry with 1 cup of heavy cream if desired
Nutrition
Calories: 329kcal | Carbohydrates: 28g | Protein: 28g | Fat: 12g | Saturated Fat: 5g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 4g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 88mg | Sodium: 1214mg | Potassium: 1300mg | Fiber: 4g | Sugar: 5g | Vitamin A: 7158IU | Vitamin C: 28mg | Calcium: 64mg | Iron: 2mg
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One 4-pound chicken, legs, thighs and breasts (no wings) cut into 8 pieces, backbone discarded (or 1 cut-up chicken)
Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
Vegetable oil, as needed
2 stalks celery, finely chopped
1 medium onion, finely chopped
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
4 cups low-sodium chicken stock
2 medium parsnips, peeled and cut into 1-inch chunks
2 medium carrots, peeled and cut into 1-inch chunks
1 medium turnip, peeled and cut into 1-inch chunks
1 medium rutabaga, peeled and cut into 1-inch chunks
1 cup heavy cream
1 tablespoon chopped fresh curly parsley, plus additional leaves, for garnish
1-1/4 cups: 460 calories, 9g fat (3g saturated fat), 110mg cholesterol, 442mg sodium, 51g carbohydrate (12g sugars, 7g fiber), 42g protein.
Most of the prep time for this recipe goes toward peeling and dicing the vegetables – but you can do all of that a day ahead if you’d like. (We list some tips and tricks in the instructions below that will help prevent peeled vegetables from turning brown before they are cooked.)
You’ll cut a variety of root vegetables into bite-sized pieces including carrots, parsnips, turnip, and celery root. We also removed the skins from little round boiler onions.
You’ll be cooking bone-in, skin-on chicken pieces for this stew. You can buy the pieces at the supermarket, if you’d like. But we bought a whole chicken – then followed this method to cut the chicken apart into pieces. It’s less expensive, plus you can use the neck, backbone, and wing tips in a homemade chicken stock.
About an hour before dinnertime, start to brown the chicken pieces in a Dutch oven – then remove the pieces to a platter. (Don’t worry about cooking the chicken through – it will cook the rest of the way in one of the following steps.)
Yes, when making the soup you can leave the skin on! When the whole chicken is removed from the broth in step 4 of the recipe, you can remove the skin.
From my experience the best cut of chicken to use in homemade soup, is the entire chicken!
When making old-fashioned chicken soup, you start by boiling a whole chicken to create a rich broth from scratch. You don’t need to cook the chicken before putting it in the soup because you’re using it from the very beginning to make the stock.
If you’re using a premade broth or stock, you can definitely put the chicken right in. The best way to do this is to put the chicken in a large stockpot, then add the premade stock over top; bring the stock and the chicken to a boil together. Please don’t drop the chicken into a pot of already boiling water.
Personally for chicken soup, I prefer a clear broth but if you’d like it thicker, you’re welcome to adjust it to your liking. There are a few waays to thicken soup:
You can add the noodles to the pot in the last 10 minutes or so of cooking however, I usually like to cook my noodles separately and then add them to the serving bowls individually. There are a couple reason’s I do it this way:
As for the types of noodles you can use in chicken soup – any kind will work great! Personally, I prefer flat wide egg noodles, or spaghetti that’s been broken into pieces.
Thank you for staying with this post “old fashioned chicken vegetable stew” until the end.
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