Chicken soup

For many, this is the first chicken soup in their life, acquaintance with which happened at a toddler age.

Of course, the vermicelli soup with potatoes and chicken served in preschool institutions does not contain any spices. We will be preparing a more flavorful version of this classic soup. But the approach is basically the same.

How to cook a vermicelli delicacy for those housewives who are just taking their first steps in cooking? In fact, it is on such a simple dish that it is worth working out your culinary skills. A video will help you, which describes in detail all the stages of this process, as well as step-by-step recipes with photos.

How to cook traditional chicken broth soup with vermicelli and potatoes?

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Light chicken broth soup with vermicelli and potatoes

The most famous classic chicken soup with noodles and potatoes. However, it has a small twist. It's the nutmeg that makes the soup spicier.

Quantity of ingredients

Ease of preparation

Cooking time

Is it suitable for a holiday table

Is it suitable for daily nutrition

Is it suitable for diet and baby food

Ingredients:

• chicken or any part of it from which the broth will be cooked (in this case it was chicken breast);
• 1 medium sized carrot;
• 1 large potato;
• 1 onion of medium size;
• 1-2 stalks of celery;
• 5-6 tablespoons of Spider Web vermicelli (dry);
• ¼ chopped nutmeg;
• 1-2 allspice;
• 5-6 black peppercorns;
• 1 bay leaf;
• fresh or dry dill;
• salt and black ground pepper to taste;
• oil for sauteing vegetables (preferably butter or ghee).

The amount of ingredients for the soup is indicated for approximately 1.2-1.5 liters.

1. Boil the chicken as described and remove from the broth. Some meat, such as breast or wings, cut into small pieces. Then they will be back in the soup.

2. Finely chop the onion.

3. Grate carrots on a medium or large grater. Finely chop or grate the celeriac.

4. Heat oil in a frying pan and put onions, carrots and celery into it. Pass, stirring occasionally, for 5-7 minutes.

5. Finely chop the potatoes.

6. Put potatoes and sautéed vegetables into the boiling broth. If the chicken was cooked according to all the rules, that is, with the addition of bay leaves and peppercorns, then now these seasonings should not be put in the broth. If the chicken was cooked without them, then we put the seasonings in the broth.

Cook vegetables until cooked or almost cooked.

7. Now it's time to put the vermicelli into the soup. When exactly this time comes depends on the vermicelli used. If you have a variety that boils instantly, for example, "Makfa", then it should be put when the vegetables in the soup are completely ready.

If you use any kind of vermicelli, which is cooked for a long time, then it must be put even before the vegetables are ready.

In any case, as soon as the vermicelli is in the soup, it must be constantly stirred. Carefully making sure that the vermicelli does not fall to the bottom of the pan and do not squash.

8. As soon as the vermicelli is cooked, salt and pepper the soup to taste. Add nutmeg and dill. We spread the chicken meat in the soup, let it boil and remove from heat.

All. A simple vermicelli soup with potatoes and chicken is ready.

How to cook the easiest soup? Is it necessary to put chicken pieces there or can I do without it?

Of course, with natural white poultry meat, the broth will be much richer, and therefore tastier. At the same time, this ingredient is traditionally considered dietary, which means that, even if it is extremely nutritious, you can not worry about the state of your figure.

If you wish to opt out of using such a basis for making broth, then you have several options at once. You can add special chicken cubes or ready-made soup mixes to the water. However, not all supporters of proper nutrition will agree to the implementation of this method.

In addition, you have the option to replace the chicken with any other type of meat. Perhaps this option will no longer be so dietary, but it will certainly be no less tasty.

If, nevertheless, you decide to dwell on the most traditional ingredient, then you will most likely have a question which part of the carcass to prefer to create your culinary masterpiece. Several options are possible here:

• shin;
• wings;
• leg.

In principle, the choice of a specific part of the chicken carcass does not always play a decisive role in the quality of the broth. A lot depends on the quality of the chicken itself, as well as on whether you followed certain rules when cooking it.

For example, the richness of the broth may even depend on at what point you lowered the meat into the water: immediately or after bringing it to a boil. To make the broth the most rich, it will need to be cooked for as long as possible.

Variety of Ingredients

What ingredients can be included in such a classic dish? Everything seems to be clear with the base, we also definitely need to add vermicelli, but what else do we need?

The potato is a versatile vegetable. Of course, without it, it is unlikely that a delicious vermicelli soup will turn out.

Another important element of this dish is frying. As a rule, it is made from such popular ingredients as carrots and onions.

However, these are far from the only components that can be part of such a dish. At the same time, even the most exotic options are possible.

A lot of people love products such as a variety of sausages. Such delicacies can be used in your meal instead of the base.

However, the question arises as to how useful this is. Still, sausages have already been processed in production and it is not known what raw materials were used to create them.

Of course, if you are a strict supporter of proper nutrition, then it is better not to use sausage. The same can be said about those people who have decided to go on a diet: in such cases, the chicken base of the first course is most useful.

It is also useful in terms of normalizing the functions of the gastrointestinal tract. And this should not be forgotten if you decide to go on a diet not as a result of a desire to lose extra pounds, but for medical reasons.

In other cases, it is quite possible to use sausages. Moreover, you will need quite a bit of this ingredient - about 300 grams.

If you wish, you can completely abandon meat-containing components, but then, according to gourmet reviews, the culinary masterpiece you have prepared can turn out to be excessively insipid. However, it is possible that someone will like this option the most.

Moreover, no one bothers you to use various seasonings to enhance the taste. The following options are especially popular with gourmets:

• coriander;
• allspice;
• Bay leaf.

Instead of the classic vermicelli, you can use other types of pasta. In this case, spaghetti is the most popular, which can be broken into smaller pieces, convenient both for cooking and for further consumption.

The recipe for a traditional dish without poultry using sausage is extremely simple and practically does not differ from traditional options for such a hot dish. First of all, it is worth preparing the main ingredients.

At the second stage, we prepare the frying. Naturally, it includes onions and carrots.

In the process of creating a frying, it will be nice to think about frying sausages. The fact is that these two processes are best done at the same time: in this way, you can significantly save both time and effort.

It is best to cook food in a pan at a time when the potatoes are already boiled in a saucepan. After all, the cooking process of this common vegetable, as a rule, takes some time.

Then you can add the frying and pasta to the broth. If you're using spaghetti, don't forget to chop them up.

Your culinary masterpiece will be ready exactly at the time when the pasta is softened. Remember that the specific time to complete this process also depends on the type of pasta.

If you love pretty exotic recipes, then we advise you to try to cook a vermicelli first course, which would contain not only chicken meat, but also mushrooms. In this case, you will not at all have to specifically go to the forest for mushrooms: instead, you can just buy a little champignons in the store.

You will need quite a bit of these noble and tasty mushrooms. Near 400 grams one time will be enough.

First of all, you should thoroughly wash the mushrooms you bought. Then each fungus is best cut into four parts.

Mushrooms are laid in our stew at the same time as potatoes. At the same time, we must deal with seasonings. It should take you no more than 10 minutes to cook these ingredients.

The remaining manipulations for the preparation of the first are quite standard and correspond to the classical methods of preparation. Thus, even in exotic recipes there is absolutely nothing complicated.

Do not forget to sprinkle it at the stage of serving treats on the table. greenery. Chop this natural product carefully beforehand.

A dish that combines both chicken and egg will turn out to be very tasty. A rhetorical question immediately arises, which of the considered ingredients is primary?

Which one will we add to our chowder first? First of all, let's look at the ratio of the main components: for example, for 400 grams of poultry, we need only one egg.

Of course, the temperature treatment of meat takes much more time than the manipulation of the egg. Therefore, as in traditional versions, first we will cook the bird, and only then deal with all the other components.

The chicken egg will need to be beaten in a special bowl. It is best to do this at the moment when you put potatoes in a saucepan for cooking.

The contents of the egg can be slightly salted. You will need to pour the whipped mass into a saucepan. This should be done not just like that, but in a special way: as thin as possible.

This method is necessary for experienced cooks so that the egg mass does not form lumps in the soup. However, there is a more common use of eggs in soup.

According to this method, the eggs are simply boiled in a saucepan separately from the rest of the ingredients. After the egg has reached readiness, it can be cut into pieces convenient for you: most often, in such cases, halves or quarters are used.

When cooking traditional recipes very often I want to diversify them with some new flavors. If you are familiar with this situation, then you can put pieces of processed cheese in your food.

Such a food product is already completely ready for direct consumption. For one serving, you will need two pieces of such a treat.

The product will be enough just to grate. If you think that this product is very soft, then here's a little secret for you: before using the grater, hold the cheese in the refrigerator for a while so that it freezes and hardens.

It is worth adding processed cheese to water at the very beginning of preparing the soup. Although, of course, you should wait until the moment when your broth boils.

Now you need the processed cheese to completely dissolve in the broth. Typically, this process takes 7 to 10 minutes.

All other cooking steps are quite standard. So here is another simple and original recipe for the first one.

A very tasty dish will turn out if you add fresh tomatoes or tomato paste to your delicacy. These ingredients are quite often used when creating the first one.

Tomatoes must be added at the moment when you add the frying. That is, we are talking about the last stages of creating your culinary masterpiece.

Tomatoes can be simply chopped, but it will be much better if you chop them in a blender. One dinner will take you 3 to 4 tomatoes.

In addition to fresh tomatoes, you can add tomato paste to your traditional dish. It is also better to put it after potatoes, but at the same time with other vegetables.

Such a tomato soup can be made not on the basis of pasta, but on the basis of rice. This ingredient should also be added after all other components.

So, rice is added at the moment when the broth with vegetables once again reaches a boil. Now you have to wait 7 to 8 minutes until the rice is ready.

Remember that spices are laid along with rice. Then, after the specified time, be sure to add greens and pre-boiled poultry, cut into portions.

Cooking methods

What are the ways to prepare the simplest soup? Of course, the easiest way is to arm yourself with a saucepan for cooking and a frying pan for frying.

Currently, special equipment is actively used in the kitchen. In this regard, the multicooker has gained great popularity.

In such a device, you can cook almost any dish. The main thing is to choose the right mode and follow the basic recommendations outlined in the recipes.

If you decide to cook the first dish in a slow cooker, then you can watch special video tutorials in which the basic basics of this process will be explained to you. At the same time, you have complete freedom in choosing specific ingredients.

Interestingly, some recipes are specially adapted for specific multicooker models. This technique has become so popular in modern kitchens.

If you are just going to equip your kitchen with all the necessary equipment, then for sure you will choose among the main existing brands. In particular, the following options are most popular among experienced housewives:

• Panasonic;
• Polaris;
• Redmond.

Of course, each device has its own characteristics, which you can familiarize yourself with using the equipment description and instructions for use. However, there are general principles that will help you navigate in this area.

Soup can be prepared not only using full-fledged pieces of meat, but also using minced meat. This option is no less tasty than the classic.

Initially, in the bowl of the multicooker, it is necessary to cook the frying of onions and carrots. At the same stage, we will lay the minced meat.

To prepare this mixture, you will need about 20 minutes. Do not forget to add a little vegetable oil to the multicooker bowl beforehand.

After that, it is worth lowering the pre-cut potatoes into the multicooker bowl. After that, all this vegetable and meat mixture can be poured with a certain amount of water.

By the end of the cooking process, you will have approximately 20-25 minutes. You can set the multicooker timer for the appropriate time and go about your business.

The sound signal of the kitchen equipment we are considering will warn us that our culinary masterpiece is completely ready. It remains only to serve a hot treat on the table.

Proper nutrition is especially worth thinking about if you are going to achieve ideal figure parameters. Many people who are going to go on a diet carefully monitor the calorie content of their products.

An ordinary such soup accounts for a little less than 40 kilocalories per 100 grams. An important role is played for patients on a diet, and the composition of the dish in relation to the amount of proteins, fats and carbohydrates.

So, per 100 grams of product there are about 1.8 grams of protein, 1.6 grams of fat and 4.4 grams of carbohydrates. Thanks to the technological map of such a product, you can find out not only the total amount of proteins, fats and carbohydrates, but also the composition of each specific component.

simple recipes

Let's look at what recipes for the dish we are considering. If the simplest option includes only the most basic components, then in more complex options, various variations are possible, including, among other things, the most exotic ingredients.

At the same time, the complexity lies mainly in the composition of the dish and the selection of the necessary ingredients, and not in the cooking process itself. If you follow the step-by-step instructions, then most likely you can easily achieve amazing results that will amaze not only your family members, but also your guests.

For beginners in the world of cooking, it is important not only simplicity of instructions but also the presentation of information. To achieve this goal, many culinary resources provide step-by-step recipes with photos of each significant cooking stage.

Thus, you can check with the existing sample every step of the way to create your future culinary masterpiece. However, if you have the necessary set of culinary skills, then it will be much more interesting for you to experiment on the theme of one or another classic recipe on your own.

With special responsibility to approach the choice of ingredients you will need if you are cooking for children. After all, children's health is especially fragile, and in order to maintain it in good condition, you need to think about proper nutrition.

The younger the child, the more responsible it is necessary to treat the organization of his nutrition. When children grow up, they gradually switch to the usual food for an adult, and while they are small, they need a special kitchen so that all the nutrients are well absorbed by the child's body.

There are separate recipes designed specifically for feeding one-year-old babies. However, do not think that such a diet cannot be diversified: on the contrary, there are many possible options.

A very tasty delicacy will turn out to be the first one, which contains such a healthy product for the baby as cauliflower. The fact is that in this vegetable you will find a huge amount of useful vitamins and minerals, which will certainly benefit the health of the baby.

At the same time, very small portions will be enough for kids. It is best to prepare always fresh food in order to protect the health of the baby as much as possible.

Cauliflower should also be harvested by you in very small quantities. It will be enough just a few inflorescences.

From other vegetables, we will definitely need universal potatoes, a little sweet pepper, as well as greens. How to prepare such a healthy meal?

First, boil the chicken fillet. For this we need 20 to 25 minutes. Then we take out the meat, and gradually put all the other ingredients into the broth.

First of all, lay the potatoes cut into pieces, as well as cabbage inflorescences. After our broth has reached a boil, you can slightly reduce the heat, but leave our mixture to cook for another 15 minutes.

After that, you can add noodles, as well as sweet pepper cut into small pieces. About seven more minutes, and our delicacy is completely ready for serving. Do not forget to cool our food a little to a temperature acceptable for the baby.

At the very last stage of cooking, you can add a small amount of greens to our delicacy. If desired, you have the opportunity to adjust the density of the resulting mixture: for example, if too much water has boiled away, then you can simply add a little extra water to dilute the product a little.

Many children like to eat foods prepared not with water, but with milk. The dairy first course is just as easy to prepare as the rest of the common options.

The volume of the main component will be exactly the same as in the previous recipe. If you are cooking on medium heat, then the process of cooking the fillet should take you only about 15 minutes.

In this case, the meat will be cooked, as usual, on the water. There will also be added in the future and harvested vegetables.

At what point should you add a little milk? First of all, milk should be mixed with a small amount of flour. After that, such a mixture can be placed in a broth in which vegetables have already been boiled, as well as the main component.

By the way, the chicken fillet should be further processed. For kids, it’s better not to even cut it into small pieces, but immediately scroll it in a blender. In such a puree-like state, the meat will be much easier to digest for the baby.

How to determine the readiness of our dairy food? After we have added milk with flour, the mixture should once again come to a boil. After that, it is enough to withstand just a few seconds, and you can remove the saucepan from the heat.

For children, you can choose special types of pasta. So that the resulting culinary creation is not only tasty, but also looks attractive and interesting for the baby.

Here you can still reduce the amount of meat consumed. You will be enough even 50 grams this product. Cook it until fully cooked - about 20 to 25 minutes.

Then the meat must be removed from the pan and allowed to cool to an acceptable temperature. Then you can cut it into small pieces.

While the meat is cooling, put the chopped vegetables into the broth. First, boil the potatoes separately, which should take you about 10 minutes.

After that, you can add other vegetables. For example, onions and carrots. At the same time, they do not need to be additionally fried, as for adult food.

Rinse the onion, peel and finely chop the onion. As for the carrot, it should be washed, peeled, and then just rubbed on a coarse grater.

At the same time with these vegetables, add the "Asterisks" themselves to the saucepan. The process of bringing the mixture to the degree of final readiness should take you about 15-20 minutes.

And at the very last stage, we add chopped meat to the saucepan. For taste, you can also add a little greenery.

Frying can only be done by older children. So you will make your food tastier and more similar to adult food, but it is better not to experiment with the smallest children in this way.

What to do when it's not the season for fresh vegetables? Alternatively, frozen vegetable mixes can be used. At one time, you only need half a glass of such a product.

What vegetables are usually included in such a mixture? Here you will find a whole assortment of vegetables:

• potatoes;
• carrot;
• corn;
• Bell pepper;
• celery.

This is a real vitamin salad. However, at the first stage, we, as always, must deal with the main ingredient. Poultry is best boiled in lightly salted water. This process will take you about half an hour.

After the specified time, we separate the broth from the base, and then cool our bird and cut it into compact pieces. At the same time, put the vegetable mixture in a saucepan.

What ingredient is typically missing from a standard vegetable mix? Usually there is not enough pumpkin, but this is a very tasty and healthy vegetable for the child's body, so we recommend adding it separately.

Do not forget to wash and cut the pumpkin, peeling it from the skin and bones and cutting it into small pieces. In this case, you will need quite a bit of this product.

Cooking vegetables should take you 10 to 15 minutes. This time interval is true when it comes to the use of medium fire.

We add greens and the base, as always, at the very last stages of cooking. It turns out a very tasty delicacy that little kids will definitely like.

Recently, thick variants of the former have been extremely popular with both children and adults, resembling mashed potatoes in consistency and receiving the appropriate name. There are recipes that allow you to use this method of nutrition in the diet of one-year-old children.

The basis of our puree will be chicken and pumpkin. How to start creating such an incredibly tasty treat?

First we cook the base. Everything, as in traditional recipes. Then we boil the pumpkin. This process will take us 7 to 10 minutes.

How to determine the readiness of a pumpkin? The fact is that the finished vegetable softens to such an extent that it is easily pierced with a knife or fork.

Next, we need to work on creating the frying. To be more precise, we will stew onions and carrots in a frying pan in butter. Do not forget to add a little water there, in which you have already cooked the basis of your dish. It will be enough just 5-6 spoons.

Another cooking step will be associated with the use of a blender. We place all our vegetables in the container of this kitchen equipment and additionally grind to a puree state.

It is also worth adding a few tablespoons of meat water to the blender. Then it remains to mix this vegetable mixture along with the fillet, which you can also scroll in a blender.

Now it remains only to adjust the density of our soup. This can be done by adding a spoonful of the same meat water. And do not forget about the traditional decoration in this case, namely finely chopped greens.

One of the options for preparing the first course involves the creation of small balls from minced chicken - meatballs. Instead of minced meat, you can also use chicken fillet.

You will need this main ingredient about 400 grams. It is assumed that we will not buy meatballs ready-made in the grocery store, but will try to make them ourselves.

Minced meat is an intermediate stage between raw chicken meat and full-fledged meatballs. In this regard, you always have a choice: you can buy ready-made minced meat, or you can process the bird to such a state yourself using an ordinary meat grinder.

If you purchased a whole unprocessed chicken, then it should be cleaned of all unnecessary details: first of all, from bones and skin. If you have purchased an already processed fillet, then you should not carry out such manipulations, but you will definitely need to rinse the meat to clean it of possible dirt and bacteria.

After washing, do not forget to dry the prepared meat. Don't forget to cut it into small pieces. Next, the fillet enters the meat grinder, where it is processed to the state of minced meat.

Ordinary meat may seem rather bland to you, especially if you like rather spicy delicacies. In this case, do not forget to carefully salt and pepper the minced meat you cooked, focusing on your individual taste preferences.

To do this, it will be possible to pour into the pan about 2.5 liters of water. Salt the water and bring it to a boil. After that, you can lower the meatballs you cooked there.

Next, we move on to the processing of vegetables. We will need some of them to create a traditional frying, while others will immediately go to the pan with the meatballs, as soon as they reach the initial state of readiness. As a rule, this takes about 10 minutes.

For frying, we, as always, use onions and carrots, and for cooking - potatoes, pre-cut into small cubes. The processes of creating frying and boiling potatoes will run in parallel and will take you about 15 minutes.

Interestingly, the bird can be combined with fish. Particularly with pike. For example, you can do this: boil a pike head and get fish broth, and then prepare a chicken delicacy based on it. Wings are best.

When cooking a pike head, do not forget to rinse it, clean it and remove all unnecessary insides. Only then can it be cooked. And, of course, don't forget to add traditional spices like black peppercorns and bay leaves.

If you want to diversify the nutrition of your children, then ordinary chicken broth can be diluted with a tasty and healthy treat, namely cabbage. In this case, it is best to use not the traditional white cabbage, but options such as colored or broccoli.

All you need for this ingredient only 200 grams. If you chose cauliflower, then it will need to be divided into separate inflorescences. And only then you can add this component to the pan, where the frying is already being cooked.

The rest of the manipulations are completely classic, but the taste of your dish will be quite original. For those people who are on a diet, we recommend using broccoli to create this delicacy.