Riley's Chicken Soup

Ingredients

• 2 1/2 lbs chicken thighs, bone in

• l 1/4 tsp pepper, divided

• 1/2 tsp salt

• l tsp oil

• l large onion, chopped

• l garlic dove, minced

• 10 cups chicken broth

• 10 celery ribs, chopped

• 4 Medium Carrots

• 2 Bay leaves

• 1/4 tsp thyme

• 3 Cups egg noodle

• l tbsp parsley

• l tbsp Lemon Juice

Directions

1. Pat chicken dry and season with salt and pepper

2. In a large pot, add oil and cook chicken, skin side down in batches. 3-4 min each side

3. Give skin to Riley

4. Keep drippings

5. In 2 tbs drippings-cook onion (4-5 min), add garlic and cook for 1 min

6. Add broth and pull bits from pan

7. Bring to a boil

8. Add chicken to pot

9. Add celery, carrots, bay leaves and thyme

10. Simmer for 30 min

11. Take out chicken, remove soup from heat

12. Add noodles and let stand, covered for 20 min

13. When the chicken is cool pull apart, discard bones and return to soup, be warned - even after 20 minutes that chicken is going to be hot as all hell

14. Add parsley and lemon juice

15. Adjust seasoning and discard bay leaves

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Retrospectives

January 16th, 2020

Worst. Soup. Ever.

OK, it didn't kill anyone but it definitely wasn't what I was expecting. Way too many noodles and the flavors just weren't there. Wasn't worth the 3rd degree burns from those chicken thighs.

Will need to work on this one.....