Chicken and Rice Soup
Create a flavourful, intense broth using a whole chicken, then use it in a hearty soup for dinner. Serve with whole grain bread and a tossed salad. Use extra chicken and soup for sandwiches and soup lunches during the week.
Create a flavourful, intense broth using a whole chicken, then use it in a hearty soup for dinner. Serve with whole grain bread and a tossed salad. Use extra chicken and soup for sandwiches and soup lunches during the week.
Chicken bones are the best choice for making tasty soup. To extract maximum flavour, a stock needs to simmer for hours – long after there is any flavour left in the accompanying meat.
Poaching chicken creates an intense, clear broth. However, you can make an even quicker version using leftover chicken or turkey. Sprinkle soup with sliced warm tortillas and hot pepper sauce and serve with a romaine-and-avocado salad.
You could eat this chicken-and-vegetable soup with a knife and fork, but don't forget a spoon for the delicious broth. It's made with chicken pieces on the bone.
Who doesn’t love a good bowl of chicken noodle soup? It’s the ultimate comfort soup and go-to meal to help soothe stubborn colds or to warm our tummies on harsh winter days.
Kay Spicer, food writer and author of the cookbook Light & Easy Choices (Grosvenor House Press Inc., 1985), has three grown-up children who each have a different favourite dish. Son Bob goes for scalloped potatoes baked with pork chops, a dish that harks back to his mom's Prairie roots. Daughter Patti says rice pudding is her favourite ("no contest,"), and home economist daughter Susan Spicer Angrove opts for chicken soup, saying, "We all used to beg her for chicken soup." Fresh-tasting and tomatoey, it's a memory-making soup.
You can make your very own Chinese-style chicken soup with vermicelli noodles in the comfort of your home.
Rotisserie chicken adds a pleasant oven-roasted flavour to this soothing vegetable- and-noodle soup. It also cuts prep time dramatically.
On a cold, dreary day, there's no dish more soothing than a steaming bowl of chicken soup. In this one-pot version, we've poached the chicken in the savoury broth to intensify the chicken flavour and added a touch of cream for a velvety, rich consistency.
Chicken thighs are less expensive than breasts, and they give this robust soup added heartiness. If you don't have plain yogurt, top each bowl with sour cream. Cost: $3.15/serving