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Default Chicken soup -- how long to cook?

N T > wrote:
> There's a complaint in my house that I overcooked chicken in the soup.
> There are so many recipes for chicken soup. I did this:
> Put about four thighs and legs (organic) in the pot with 4 quarts
> water and some vegetables -- carrots, celery, onion, etc. Brought it
> just up to the boil, about to boil, then turned it down to simmer.
> Stopped it at 1 hour and 15 minutes. The complaint is that the chicken
> is tasteless from being overcooked. Needless to say, my overcooking is
> the constant complaint. I try to keep it to the minimum time but can't
> seem to find the borderline. What do you think it is?


The complaint is silly. The chicken is supposed to be tasteless.
The flavor from the chicken is imparted to the broth in the soup.
If you want, you can chop up some of the chicken into chunks and
serve it in the soup just for the texture, but most people just
disgard the chicken or use it in chicken salad with lots of herbs
and spices to add flavor.