Mama’s Magic Chicken Noodle Soup

SO you all love this soup and for always and always, the minute you all start feeling crappy I put you to bed and start to make this by the kilo and you all gobble it up:) and it always makes you feel better.

Magic C.N.S Ingredients:

• A whole chicken, uncooked, or, a pack of raw chicken thighs.
• 1 whole white onion
• 3 whole peeled garlic cloves
• 2 bay leaves
• 3 whole peppercorns
• olive oil
• 1 potato chopped to bite-size
• 1/4-1/2 cup of vermicelli
• N.B Its good to note that if you again are feeling like poop and don’t want to chop anything up, swing by your local market and grab a bag of soffrito or other pre-chopped up veggies if you want.

Method:

• Put the chicken in a large saucepan and fill and cover the chicken with warm water; add to that the onion chopped in half, the raw garlic cloves, the bay leaves, the peppercorns and bring to a boil.
• once the water is boiling fast lower the heat to low heat and let the chicken boil off and cook. The longer the better. If you don’t have the time for a long boil, wait for the chicken to be cooked through, the chicken should be white, and using a fork easily comes off the bone. But again, the longer the better.
• Once the chicken is cooked through switch off the heat and strain the broth into a bowl, reserve the meat on the side.
• In the same saucepan or another saucepan, drizzle some olive oil in the saucepan and throw in the carrots and cook them off so they are glistening and starting to soften ( if your using a sofrito mix add that now and cook till softened)
• add the potato to the carrots and toss them around cook them off until they are also glistening and starting to soften.
• Once the veggies are starting to soften, add the fresh stock to the sauce pan and simmer it all together. Add salt
• Add the vermicelli and keep it on the simmer till it is all cooked. Taste and adjust for seasoning.

NB: You all absolutely love this. BUT none of you have ever loved having the chicken IN the actual soup so…. what I do with the cooked chicken meat is shred it and then make easy peasy m’sekhan rolls.

Bonus Round: I usually serve it with a slightly toasted buttered hunk of sourdough/baguette and you love it:)

Love You’s