Broth is not just a base for a soup, it is also a separate dish. On a cold winter evening, a cup of hot broth will keep you warm and nourished. Making a delicious broth is easy.
Secrets of making delicious broth
The optimal basis for the broth is chicken - dietary meat with a small amount of fat. For broth, choose soup chicken, not broiler, which are usually sold in the store. Soup chicken is a laying hen, that is, one that is not a meat breed and is not less than two years old.
Spices in the broth, of course, are needed, but you should not abuse them, as they can interrupt the natural taste and smell of chicken.
To prepare the broth, you need to put the meat in cold water and cook for at least an hour over low heat. If you use exactly soup chicken, then the cooking time of the broth will be about three hours, one and a half of which the chicken should be cooked alone. Only then do we add vegetables. Do not be lazy to remove the foam! If you do not remove it, it will settle and the broth will become cloudy, and the taste of the broth will change.
For a fragrant broth, you must definitely add vegetables and roots: onions, carrots, celery, parsnips. You can experiment with different amounts of vegetables. Mandatory seasonings for the broth are peppercorns and bay leaves. After cooking, the vegetables can be thrown away - they have already given all the most valuable to the broth.
Quick delicious chicken broth soup
You can make a very quick soup with fresh broth. Separate the meat from the bones, and strain the broth. Cook small pasta or homemade noodles separately. If you cook the pasta separately, the flour particles or small pasta will not get into the soup. Ready-made pasta can simply be laid out on a plate and then filled with broth.
With such a soup, you can easily diversify your home menu. Buckwheat noodles, udon, or rice noodles can be used in place of regular pasta.
