Where to start.
A couple of hours after making pancakes and bacon for breakfast, I started boiling the fuck out of that carcass for broth. I picked the rest of the chicken off and put it aside for the soup. I dumped all the rest of the parts in the pot.
I added about half of an onion in with the chicken parts. If you're making broth for the first time, put in whatever you want. Remember all the warnings we have heard about how boiling leaches all the vitamins out of vegetables? Well, now is your chance to leach out some vegetable for the greater good. Old carrot in the crisper? Throw that in. Limp broccoli? Celery? In the pot. All vegetables are fair game for Boiling the Fuck Out Of.
Time is irrelevant, but you should be at home. Check the pot and stir it and add water as it seems necessary. Keep doing this until you are ready to not be doing it any more.
Here we are with a nice, homey, sexy, You Care About Your Family Broth. It doesn't matter if they actually consume the broth.
I decided the broth was done because Jess said they were hungry. The recipe called for me to saute some shit in olive oil, but I already had broth in the pot. I used a spatula with holes in it to strain out all the chicken parts and put them in the sink to be dealt with later. I didn't want to drag out (wash) another pot, so instead of sauteing, I dumped stuff in. Half of an onion, several cloves of garlic (however many you feel like), and a whole large jalapeno pepper. I kept the seeds because we like it hot.
Oh! I forgot to mention the tortilla strips. It's chicken tortilla soup, so obvi there needs to be tortilla strips. I had some corn tortillas in the freezer from the last time I made enchiladas (ill-received), so I had taken out the recommended 10 tortillas yesterday to thaw. I used scissors to chop them into strips and put them in the oven after tossing with salt and olive oil. Some of them were brown and some of them were not and it was all fine. This isn't a fucking restaurant. And in the end I wound up using some crushed tortilla chips in my second bowl because there weren't enough strips.
Notice the pan carefully balanced on the sinks. I boiled the rest of the stuff for the soup for a good little while, and then declared it finished. I diced up some avocado and pulled out a bag of shredded cheddar cheese from the fridge. Here's a finished bowl.
I would make this recipe again. I would make more tortilla strips.
Also, any time you have a chicken carcass, boil
the fuck out of it. You can cool it and freeze it and have it any time you need chicken broth. Or you can use my two step method. Less prep, more profanity.
A couple of hours after making pancakes and bacon for breakfast, I started boiling the fuck out of that carcass for broth. I picked the rest of the chicken off and put it aside for the soup. I dumped all the rest of the parts in the pot.
I added about half of an onion in with the chicken parts. If you're making broth for the first time, put in whatever you want. Remember all the warnings we have heard about how boiling leaches all the vitamins out of vegetables? Well, now is your chance to leach out some vegetable for the greater good. Old carrot in the crisper? Throw that in. Limp broccoli? Celery? In the pot. All vegetables are fair game for Boiling the Fuck Out Of.
Time is irrelevant, but you should be at home. Check the pot and stir it and add water as it seems necessary. Keep doing this until you are ready to not be doing it any more.
I decided the broth was done because Jess said they were hungry. The recipe called for me to saute some shit in olive oil, but I already had broth in the pot. I used a spatula with holes in it to strain out all the chicken parts and put them in the sink to be dealt with later. I didn't want to drag out (wash) another pot, so instead of sauteing, I dumped stuff in. Half of an onion, several cloves of garlic (however many you feel like), and a whole large jalapeno pepper. I kept the seeds because we like it hot.
Notice the pan carefully balanced on the sinks. I boiled the rest of the stuff for the soup for a good little while, and then declared it finished. I diced up some avocado and pulled out a bag of shredded cheddar cheese from the fridge. Here's a finished bowl.
I would make this recipe again. I would make more tortilla strips.
Also, any time you have a chicken carcass, boil
the fuck out of it. You can cool it and freeze it and have it any time you need chicken broth. Or you can use my two step method. Less prep, more profanity.
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