Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, hodge-podge "clean out the fridge" chicken soup. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook hodge-podge "clean out the fridge" chicken soup using 8 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Hodge-Podge "Clean Out the Fridge" Chicken Soup:
- Prepare Dark-meat chicken 2lbs (I prefer bone on to later make bone broth)
- Take Onion- 1/2 large, 1 whole small
- Get Carrots- 2 whole peeled, thin circle slices
- Prepare Celery- 2 whole stalks diced
- Get Garlic- 2-4 cloves (or however much you prefer), chopped
- Prepare veggies of your choice (I used left over corn, peas, spinach, and mushrooms)
- Take Wild Rice- 1 cup cooked (leftover from our weekly meal-prep)
- Make ready Black Beans- 1 cup cooked (leftover from our weekly meal prep)
Ingredients of Hodge-Podge "Clean Out the Fridge" Chicken Soup. Succotash is added to the pot just before the soup finishes cooking. The soup is garnished with fresh parsley and paprika. You can adapt this basic recipe to use ingredients in your fridge and pantry.
Instructions to make Hodge-Podge "Clean Out the Fridge" Chicken Soup:
- In our house, all soups start with the same basic formula (onion, celery, carrot, garlic and bone broth- Love ya mom!). Gather these ingredients and find a heavy pot (we use a cast iron stock pot), but use what you have.
- Prepare your protein (chicken in this case) by searing it in butter or any oil you choose covered (in the soup pot if you want to save on dishes!). This step helps the protein to retain its natural moisture content and prevent that rubbery texture of say…of boiled chicken, yuck!
- Remove the chicken and let it cool. Toss it into a bowl, plate etc.
- Add a bit more butter/oil to the pot, set to medium heat and toss in the diced onion, carrot, celery till tender (5 mins or so), then add chopped garlic for a minute or two… stirring so it doesn't burn. We stay on medium heat for the rest of the process.
- Add stock. Add leftovers. Add chicken. Add spices and whatever else you want to the pot.
- Simmer for a few… 10-20 minutes depending on what you had for leftovers. Taste test. Serve hot. (Maybe with an ice cube for the littles)
- Enjoy with fam.
The soup is garnished with fresh parsley and paprika. You can adapt this basic recipe to use ingredients in your fridge and pantry. Try single flavours or combinations to make anything from vegetable broth to hearty lentil, chicken or thick creamy soup. As this soup is quick-cooking, use tender cuts of meat. Steaks and chops, with bones removed, are suitable to slice and add to soup.
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