Ozgirl wrote:

> I want to do a chicken one next, anyone got a favourite chicken soup
> recipe?
>
> Every time I have made it I have mostly followed my grandmother's
> recipe. The chicken would be an old "boiler" cooked slowly of course.
> Home made stock. Soup always had corn in it She used to scrape the
> corn off the cobs though, I use canned, lol. Potatoes, carrots,
onions
> and fresh peas. I always nixed the potatoes. Garlic wasn't anything
my
> nan ever used. I don't know anyone back in the day who did use it now
I
> come to think of it.

I made Mulligatawny soup. Like your grandmother's recipe, but no
potatoes or corn, some celeriac instead. Remove the boiler chicken
when tender and let it cool some. Add cream of coconut and some heavy
cream. 1 can and 1 dl respectively per liter-

Fry some chopped onion, stir in curry powder and/or garam masala, Stir
into soup, pick meat off the chicken and add to soup. Finally, add
cooked lentils, about 100 g uncooked per liter stock, more if you want
a thicker soup. Heat, add salt and spice to taste.
Maybe a sweet potato would add color and thickness? It would nearly
dissolve. Mmmm - must experiment, there's still a liter of chicken
stock available ... and of course, "we'll have sherry with the soup".
("Dinner for one")