Lazy chicken soup because I have a cold

[alias_sqbr]

Inspired by a discussion with nico_wolfwood on Facebook. The advantage over using easier stuff like tinned soup/stock is that there's less artificial crap, which I try and avoid when I'm feeling particularly low (yes, I could make my own stock, see "lazy").

Simmer for about half an hour:
A tablespoon of miso paste
half a saucepan-ish of water
parsley
1 cup? chopped vegetables (carrot, spinach, pumpkin, celery(*), whatever you have to hand that's soupish)
A chopped chicken thigh with as much fat cut out as you can manage
salt and pepper
2 cloves garlic
Onion would probably be good, but I don't have any.

Pour over cooked soba or other noodles.

(*)celery leaves are fantastic in soups and stocks, I always save and freeze them

Comments

[greteldragon.livejournal.com]

celery leaves are fantastic in soups and stocks, I always save and freeze them

I did not know this. Do they freeze okay? Do you chop them up before adding them. Where else do I find out about this crazy idea. :P

[alias_sqbr]

I don't chop them because sometimes I want to fish them out (unless they're boiled a long time they are pretty stringy and unpleasant texture wise(*)) and it's easy to break up the frozen sticks into bits in my hands as I chuck it into the soup.

Googling "celery leaves recipe" found a bunch of interesting looking stuff I'd never heard of :)

(*)well, the leaves themselves are ok, but the skinny ends-of-celery they're attached to, which I leave on, are not.

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

I am on a soup making bender at the moment AND I have a heap of white miso sitting in the bottom of my fridge that's a few years old and barely ever gets looked at, this could give it some attention.

[nico-wolfwood.livejournal.com]

Glad to know the discussion led you to make soup :)

[alias_sqbr]

Awesome, hope it ends up tasty.

[alias_sqbr]

And it seems to have inspired other soup makers too!

[nico-wolfwood.livejournal.com]

Yay! Maybe I should talk about cooking more often :P