How to Cook Chicken Pepper Soup
Serves: 6
Preparation time: 5 mins
Cooking time: 30 mins
Ingredients needed to make Chicken Pepper Soup:
- 2 chicken legs, separated into drumsticks and thighs
- 2 chicken breasts, chopped into 1’’ chunks
- 3 carrots, chopped
- 3 large potatoes, peeled and quartered
- 3 medium white onions, chopped
- 4 small fresh red chilies, finely chopped
- 2 tbsp tomato puree
- 4 tbsp dried red chili flakes
- 2 chicken bouillon cubes
- 3 tbsp corn oil
- 1 ¾ pint fresh chicken stock
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
- chopped fresh parsley leaves, for serving
Cooking instructions for Chicken Pepper Soup:
- Fill a saucepan with the chicken stock and heat until it starts boiling.
- Reduce to a simmer and throw in the carrots as well as the onions.
- Whisk the curry powder, fresh chilies and dried chili flakes into the tomato puree until they are well distributed throughout the mixture and crumble the bouillon cubes into it; stir well to mix properly into a paste.
- Pour some corn oil in a large, heavy-bottomed casserole and wait until it turns hot over moderate heat.
- Throw in the chicken and cook one side for a couple of minutes, or until it browns.
- Turn them over and sear the other side in a similar fashion; work in bathes to avoid overcrowding.
- Spoon the paste into the pan and give it a good stir to coat the chicken pieces well with the blend.
- Continue to cook for a minute or two before pouring in the chicken stock, along with the veggies in it.
- Stir them all together to mix well and simmer the soup for about 10 minutes.
- Plop in the potatoes and stir them into the soup, along with a dash of salt and generous amount of ground black pepper to season.
- Continue to simmer the soup for another 10 minutes or until the potatoes soften and the chicken pieces are cooked properly; juices should ooze out of the chicken when poked hard with a skewer at its thickest part.
- Ladle the soup into serving bowls and top it up with finely chopped parsley to garnish.
- Serve steaming hot with croutons, garlic bread or sweet corn pancakes to turn this starter into a wholesome meal.
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