Help with making ? soup

[Dot]

As you know I am a crappy cook so I need help. I have some left over chicken thighs (not the best quality) I was wondering if they would be suitable to make soup out of?? I have never made soup of any kind so help if you can please.

[SteveW]

Open a can. Heat the contents. Stir with chicken thighs. Eat.

There. That's not all that hard, is it?

[dream4red]

Try this...
In a big pot, cook some chopped onions until they are clear. Chuck in some chopped garlic. Add the chicken bits, (chopped smallish)
once chicken is a little bit cooked looking add as many vegs as you want in it, a couple of litres of water and chicken stock (powder or cubes is ok)
Add whatever spicy things you like with chicken, like a dash of soy sauce or some chilli sauce, a good sprinkle of salt n pepper and let it slowly simmer for a couple of hours. If you like pasta in our soup add some small pasta shapes in the last 30 minutes. That is real soup.


For chook n sweet corn soup. Do the onion garlic chicken steps above, add some stock and a big tin of creamed corn and another of corn kernels. Add soy sauce , salt n pepper. Give it a boil for half an hour. Once you are sure the chook is cooked to tender, whisk up a googy egg, drop small bits into soup at a time and swirl it around. Thicken with cornflour and water, keep boiling for a few minutes after you see the cornflour work. Yum


Enjoyxxx

[T1 Terry]

Brown the chicken in butter in the bottom of a cast iron pot or heavy saucepan over a high heat. When the outside is browned add chopped onion, about half an onion per chicken piece, fry till the onion is caramel colour. Drag out the chicken bits, add a teaspoon of thyme, cinnamon, what ever other dried herbs you like to cook with and 1/4 tsp of cayenne pepper (K9 pepper as our friend calls it, it's got a bite) mix all this in a cup, then pour it over the onion and stir till the aromas are released. Tell George it is not ready yet and make his own sandwich... the aroma is that good. Chop up the vegies left over in the fridge and others you like the look of, a leek always seems to go well sliced in thin rings, turnip, parsnip, carrots, Brussell sprouts, fresh corn cut off the cob, potato cut in cubes, pumpkin in cubes, go wild, anything seems to work in soup. Fry all this up with the onion and herbs, throw the chicken back in, add soupmix if you want, or lentils or girl peas if you want to ruin a good soup but green peas or blue boiling peas seem to go ok. Cover the goodies in the saucepan with water that has a few stock cubes added, depends if you like dish water soup or the type you can eat with a fork as to how much water, put the lid on and let simmer for around an hr, tie George to the chair so there is still some left to eat. Now add Worcestershire sauce, Soy sauce, HP sauce, BBQ sauce, tomato sauce, sweat chilli sauce.... what ever you like, give it good stir and taste each time, you might let George have a taste as well if he behaves, pepper and salt can be added now or in the bowl. Goes well with buttered toast, dry toast, butter bread, dry bread or no bread at all. I reckon you can't make bad soup as long as you stay away from the lentils and girl peas... and those horrid little squash things

[SteveW]

She must be asleep still.

[jon_d]

Soup gets some good deep flavours if you oven bake (roast) some vegetable.

[T1 Terry]

Soup gets some good deep flavours if you oven bake (roast) some vegetable.

That might be the effect I get from pan frying the vegies that would otherwise turn to mush, like cubed potatoes, pumpkin, sweet potato and choko (Chayote). The humble choko is tasteless mush on its own, but sautéed with the onion and spice/herb mix it absorbs and locks in those flavour and they are there at the end each time you bite through the brown crispy skin. Shredded in a stir fry they bring out some of the flavours that are normally lost during the cooking process, works the same in soup and stews.
Maybe a soup/stew cook off at the Qld get together next yr as the all in dinner perhaps?

[Dot]

Thank you peoples, shall give it a go and see what happens, If it turns out ok I shall claim it but otherwise it will have come out of a can. SteveW it is Sunday, and I was trying to let you guys have a bit of a peaceful morning.

[Peter]

My recipe, Buy a can of campbells chicken soup ( not much Chicken ) Cook your chicken in microwave then dice it and add to campbells soup also add chopped celery & capicium and frozen vegies and anything getting a bit old in the fridge then heat in saucepan for about 10-15 minutes A very quick feed when on the road.

[Chuck]

Just caught up with the internet - heading up the middle.

Dot, do you like Asian type soups, if so have a look in the supermarkets for packets of TRIDENT chicken flavour Thai Noodle Soup.

We use these fairly frequently, especially when traveling. Prefer to use 1 chicken breast cut into smallish bite size pieces, cook them in the water along with the sachets in the packet mix. Remove them after 2 minutes. Add the noodles in the packs continually stirring for another to mins then add small pieces of cauliflour, broccoli, carrot, peas & corn. Return the chicken to the soup mix for one more minute then add a small splash of soya sauce & voila, all done inside of ten mins & it only dirties one saucepan that rinses out easily.

Less than $2 pr pack...
We use 3 packs between us.