How to Cook Appetizing Wholesome Chicken Soup

Wholesome Chicken Soup.

You can cook Wholesome Chicken Soup using 19 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Wholesome Chicken Soup

1. You need 1.5 lbs of chicken thigh meat, deboned and deskinned.
2. Prepare 5 of whole peeled cloves garlic.
3. It's 1 of large onion, quartered.
4. You need 2 of carrots, cut into 1 inch pieces.
5. You need 2 of celery stalk, cut into 2 inch pieces.
6. Prepare 4 of whole shiitake mushrooms.
7. You need 5 of peppercorns.
8. You need 4 of bay leaves.
9. It's dash of dried ginger powder.
10. You need 2 of carrots cut into centimeter cubes.
11. You need 2 of celery stalks cut into centimeter cubes.
12. It's 1/2 tsp of turmeric.
13. It's 2 tsp of soy sauce.
14. You need 1 tsp of Worcestershire.
15. It's 1 tsp of Chinese rice wine.
16. It's 1 tbsp of butter.
17. You need 1 tsp of salt.
18. It's to taste of Pepper.
19. You need of Sour cream to serve.

Wholesome Chicken Soup instructions

1. Take 1.5-2 lbs of chicken meat, preferably with a little bone or skin for fat/flavor (here I used 1.5 lbs of mostly cleaned chicken thighs) and fry in oil in a ceramic coated cast iron dutch oven (I love Lodge)..
2. Then add 4-5 cups of very warm water, 5 whole cloves of garlic, 1 large quartered onion, 2 carrots in 1"pieces, 2 celery stalks in 2" pieces, 4-5 whole shiitake mushrooms, 5 peppercorns, dash dried ginger powder, 4-5 bay leaves (I use large Indian ones), and bring to a boil..
3. Once at a boil, reduce to a simmer for about 60 mins..
4. After 60 mins, remove boiled carrot, celery and bay leaves and discard. Roughly chop the boiled onion and return to pan..
5. Remove chicken, shred and remove any fat chunks and return to pan. Cut 2 carrots and 2 celery stalks into 1 cm^3 pieces and add to pan..
6. Remove mushrooms, cut into quarters (and remove any remaining stem)..
7. Here I also add 1/2 tsp turmeric, 1-2 tsp soy sauce, 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce, 1 tsp Chinese rice wine, and a tbsp butter..
8. Simmer soup until new carrot/celery pieces are tender. Add 1 tsp salt and several good cranks of pepper..
9. Serve with dollop of sour cream..