"BjørnSteensrud" > wrote in message
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> 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")

Interesting, I would really like this, not sure about the kids but I do
make curries and use coconut cream and they eat it.