At home, summer Saturday nights were special to us. Mother would cook chickens for cold Sunday lunch, boiling two of them in a big pot with water, fresh vegetables and herbs. In the evening we'd come in from playing in the fields with plenty of appetite and down to big bowls full of chicken soup - really chicken stock with a rich flavour - and slices of white bread into the soup as we ate.
| Serves: | 4 |
| Preparation time: | 15 minutes |
| Cooking time: | 20 minutes |
| Ingredients: | 1/2oz margarine or butter 15g/ 3/4 level tablespoon |
| 1 finely chopped onion | |
| 1oz flour/ 25g/ 1/4 cup | |
| 35fl oz chicken stock/ 1 litre/ 4 1/2 cups | |
| seasoning | |
| 8oz diced cooked chicken 225g/ 1 cup | |
| bouquet garni | |
| finely chopped parsley |
Method:
Melt margarine or butter and fry onion lightly without burning; add in flour and mix together. Gradually add stock, bring to the boil and season to taste. Add diced chicken and bouquet garni, bring back to the boil, cover and simmer for 20 minutes. Remove bouquet garni, check seasoning. Pour into soup tureen and garnish with chopped parsley.
To vary:
Omit margarine and flour, and instead add a few diced potatoes to the remaining ingredients. Cook for the same length of time.To economize: If the oven is turned on, to save fuel, prepare this soup in an ovenproof container. Bring it to the boil on burner top, cover and place in centre of oven for the twenty minutes' cooking time.
From The Irish Country Kitchen by Mary Kinsella. Click here for more information on the book.
Further reading:
A Little Irish Cookbook by John Murphy. Click here for more information.
Click here A Little Irish Cookbook to buy the book from Amazon.com or here to buy the Appletree Press book from Amazon.co.uk. For more information of the Appletree Press title, click on: A Little Irish Cookbook.
Also from Appletree: A Little Book of Irish Baking. Click here to buy from Amazon.com, or here, for more information
And: The Irish Kitchen. Click here to buy from Amazon.com, here to get it from Amazon.co.uk, or here, for more information.
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