Nana's Chicken or Turkey Soup

You can use this recipe for a chicken or turkey carcass - yes, a carcass. When your family has had a big chicken dinner or that Thanksgiving dinner and you're looking at that big nasty birdy carcass, think of my recipe. It's darn good and it's another one of Nana's recipes.

Step 1 Ingredients & Materials

Ingredients

1 chicken or turkey carcass (the larger the better)
1 c. chopped **celery at least
1 onion
rice
salt

Materials

12 qt. part (a little smaller is okay I guess)
strainer/collander
2nd pot or large heat-proof bowl.

Comments

[15zhangfra]

ah poultry stock by itself on a cold night..... who needs anything else? ginger added to the onion in the pot is nice too.

[Caulerpa]

I will have to try the ginger. I'm growing some right now so it would be nice to try it with something fresh!

[lemonie]

That's good instruction. You might add herbs, but nice poultry-stock doesn't necessarily need them. Rice is a new one to me - have you ever used this with lentils / split-peas?

L

[tecneeq]

I too make my chicken soup with rice. Never tried lentils or peas. I guess the outcome would be an entirely different kind of tasty. Maybe i'll give it a try some day.

[lemonie]

Lentils are bland, they add bulk and texture without much affecting taste. Since I saw rice in this (and I have eaten weird-chicken & pasta soup) it seemed natural.

L

[Caulerpa]

No I'm sort of shy about trying new things in my soup. Maybe I can test out lentils or split peas with broth made of bullion cubes. If it's good with the cheap stuff it would probably be good with real broth.

[tecneeq]

The lack of carrots and  asparagus in this recipe disturbs me ;).