Amazing chicken noodle soup
I've never had much success with making soups, although I am generally a pretty good cook.
I came across a recipe in the December 2008 issue of Cooking Light that sounded incredibly good and looked really easy, so I decided to try it: Coconut-Curry Chicken Soup. (Yes, they have the recipe available for free, follow the link.)
If you are not a fan of hot Thai food, don't let the name scare you. It is very flavorful, but not hot and spicy. The coconut milk makes it creamy, but doesn't taste like coconut. It is a really, really good, hearty homemade chicken soup full of all sorts of goodness: spinach, slightly crunchy snow peas, noodles, and really tender chicken. I sent some home with Julie, and she called me the next day to say that it was "the best soup that she ever had." Seriously. It is that good. I've been eating it since Sunday and now that it's gone I think that I need to make some more.
If you want to try it, here are the things that I needed help with:
Precooking the chicken: I always grill chicken, but I didn't want it to be crusty. Julie told me to put the chicken breast in a pot of water, bring it to a boil, and cook it for about 20 minutes. It came out perfectly and was easy to shred with a fork. Yes, some of us get to be almost 50 without knowing how to boil chicken.
I couldn't find Pad Thai noodles, so I got wide lo-mein noodles in the Asian foods section. The package said to cook them for 5 minutes, so I used that cooking time instead of the 3 minutes in the recipe.
Curry powder: I suspect that my very special curry powder probably made some difference in how smooth and silky it tasted. I have a lot of Indian and Pakistani spices, which I get from Penzeys. They have a gazillion curry powders. I used the Maharaja Curry Powder.
I couldn't find those insanely hot little red Thai chilis at the market, so I didn't use them, and didn't miss 'em.
On the knitting front, the last time I posted a picture of these, there was only one. Now there are two:
On the long-suffering-pup front, Jerry Lee allowed me to get a picture of him looking pensive in his holiday regalia:
I came across a recipe in the December 2008 issue of Cooking Light that sounded incredibly good and looked really easy, so I decided to try it: Coconut-Curry Chicken Soup. (Yes, they have the recipe available for free, follow the link.)
If you are not a fan of hot Thai food, don't let the name scare you. It is very flavorful, but not hot and spicy. The coconut milk makes it creamy, but doesn't taste like coconut. It is a really, really good, hearty homemade chicken soup full of all sorts of goodness: spinach, slightly crunchy snow peas, noodles, and really tender chicken. I sent some home with Julie, and she called me the next day to say that it was "the best soup that she ever had." Seriously. It is that good. I've been eating it since Sunday and now that it's gone I think that I need to make some more.
If you want to try it, here are the things that I needed help with:
Precooking the chicken: I always grill chicken, but I didn't want it to be crusty. Julie told me to put the chicken breast in a pot of water, bring it to a boil, and cook it for about 20 minutes. It came out perfectly and was easy to shred with a fork. Yes, some of us get to be almost 50 without knowing how to boil chicken.
I couldn't find Pad Thai noodles, so I got wide lo-mein noodles in the Asian foods section. The package said to cook them for 5 minutes, so I used that cooking time instead of the 3 minutes in the recipe.
Curry powder: I suspect that my very special curry powder probably made some difference in how smooth and silky it tasted. I have a lot of Indian and Pakistani spices, which I get from Penzeys. They have a gazillion curry powders. I used the Maharaja Curry Powder.
I couldn't find those insanely hot little red Thai chilis at the market, so I didn't use them, and didn't miss 'em.
On the knitting front, the last time I posted a picture of these, there was only one. Now there are two:
On the long-suffering-pup front, Jerry Lee allowed me to get a picture of him looking pensive in his holiday regalia:
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