Not Your Granny's Chicken Soup

Posted by Theresa on September 07, 2013 3 comments
After six months of having a sweet taste in my mouth 24/7, the sweet taste is gone and I am finally able to taste food once again. In honor of the return of my taste buds, I have been collecting recipes all week. This soup, which is definitely not your grandmother's chicken soup, is a recipe that I invented as I cooked it today, and it turned out incredibly flavorful.
I made a single serving of this soup, but I will be making it again soon.

Meanwhile, I will tell you what I did, but this recipe is void of any real measurements. As I wrote this recipe, I realized it could easily be made into 3 servings, if you do the math as you go along. I was sorry I didn't use all the chicken for this recipe, but I wasn't sure what it was going to turn out like and I didn't want to end up tossing out a whole package of chicken. Oh ye of little faith!

Instructions
  1. Cook chicken in enough water to just cover it. I cooked a whole package of chicken tenders and used about 1/3 of it for this recipe.
  2. When the chicken is cooked, pull it from the pot to cool and save the broth.
  3. Add about a tablespoon of olive oil to a small pot.
  4. Chop 1/2 cup of onion and add it to the olive oil and allow onion to soften.
  5. Add about 1/4 cup of frozen corn to the onion. Stir.
  6. Add a few sprinkles of Chipotle Chili Spice to the pot. Stir.
  7. Add a few shakes of Borsari Seasoned Salt. Stir.
  8. As the onion and corn are cooking, add about 1/3 of the chicken broth to the pot. Stir. Put the rest of the broth in the refrigerator or freeze to use later.
  9. Add 1/3 of a packet of Herb-Ox bouillon (instant chicken broth) to the soup.
  10. Shred the chicken and when the chicken broth is steaming, add the chicken to the broth.
  11. Pour a 1/2 cup or so of the hot broth from the pot into a small bowl, add 1 tsp. basil paste, and mix vigorously. Pour the basil and broth mix into the soup pan. If you have fresh basil, add thinly sliced leaves to suit your taste directly to the soup.
  12. Dice a small amount of green onion and add to the soup.
  13. When the soup is nice and hot and the flavors taste right, serve in a bowl and sprinkle the top with shaved Parmesan cheese.
Borsari spice

3 comments:

  1. Anonymous9/08/2013

    This looks delicious!!
    Barb

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  2. Anonymous9/09/2013

    Theresa - if possible, pls have comments open in separate window as they have been as of late. I notice that they are now opening as they did previously whch means you have to keep going back home to see the other posts. When you had them opening in a separate window, when you closed them you were right at he spot you left from without the need to go "home" again and start all over. Hope you unhderstand what I mean. Thanks.

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  3. Theresa9/09/2013

    Thanks for this feedback. I changed the settings back, so they now open in a small window. Sorry for the confusion.

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