Showing posts with label chicken broth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chicken broth. Show all posts

Monday, December 13, 2010

MEAL PLAN MONDAY

COMFORT FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD


Chicken Noodle Soup
Ingredients
1 onion, roughly chopped
3 garlic cloves, minced
2 carrots, roughly diced
1/2 whole celery, roughly diced
1 potato, roughly diced
1/2 cup cilantro, roughly chopped
1 cup cooked chicken, shredded or roughly chopped
8 cups chicken broth, homemade or store bought
2 tablespoons dried thyme
2 bay leaves
1 tablespoon freshly ground black pepper
2 tablespoons salt
1 tablespoon oil
1 254g package egg noodles, cooked

Directions
1. Heat oil in pan and add onions and garlic. Cook until fragrant.
2. Add the carrots, celery and potato. Cook for 5 minutes until the vegetables are slightly softened.
3. Add the chicken broth, cilantro, thyme and bay leaves. Cover and simmer for 40 minutes until the vegetables are tender.
4. Add the cooked chicken and egg noodles and simmer for another 10 minutes. Add the salt and black pepper and taste. Add more salt if necessary. Serve hot with fresh bread.

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

A WEEK OF COOKING WITH SOUP - DAY 2

ULTRA CREAMY MASHED POTATOES
3 1/2 cups Swanson Chicken Broth
5 large potatoes, cut into 1 inch pieces
1/2 cup of light cream
2 tablespoons of butter
Generous dash ground black pepper

1. Heat the broth and potatoes in 3-quart saucepan over medium-high heat to a boil.
2. Reduce heat to medium. Cover and cook for 10 minutes or until the potatoes are tender. Drain,
reserving the broth.
3. Mash the potatoes with 1/4 cup of the broth, cream, butter and black pepper. Add additional broth if needed, until desired consistency.

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VERDICT: Yum. Flavorful

What I also made with this is corn and Easy Baked Parmesan Meatballs (see recipe below).

EASY BAKED PARMESAN MEATBALLS
1 pound ground
1/2 cup Kraft grated Parmesan Cheese
1/4 cup fresh parsley (if you use parsley flakes cut to 1 tablespoon0
1 egg
1 clove of garlic (oops I forgot this) :)

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
Mix meat, cheese, parsely, egg, and garlic. shape into 12 meatballs.
Place in foil-lined 15x10x1-inch baking pan (did not foil line oops again) :0
Bake 25 minutes or until cooked through.
meatball