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sure to like and share this video today we will learn to cook chicken soup you
will also learn many different words so that you can also cook it and even talk
about it with your friends let's get started to start let's look at the
vegetables we will use we will use 1 onion 2 ribs of celery and 2 medium
carrots make sure you wash the celery because it can be dirty sometimes next
let's chop our onion you will need to chop the ends of the onion off and then
cut halfway down the middle then you can peel the skin off the onion
you can just throw away everything you cut and peeled off next finish chopping
the onion in half next you can see how I chop the onion here I'm just doing a
rough chop the pieces don't need to be very small for our celery we want to
chop it a bit differently I don't like big chunks of celery so I chop it into
cubes like this this is called cubing so you need to cube the celery like I show
here next our carrots carrots have a skin on them that we don't want to eat
because the texture is bad so we can peel them off using a tool called a
peeler just chop the ends off the carrot and peel the skin off like this again
just throw away the skin it is not important
let's cube this carrot just like we cubed the celery you'll want to do the
same thing chop the carrot in half then chop into smaller long pieces then cube
those pieces congratulations you've prepared our vegetables for this soup
here they are it's important to prepare things before you cook you'll also want
to get your chicken for this recipe I'm using four bone-in chicken thighs these
work well because of the skin bones and fat and the thighs you can also use one
whole chicken let's go see what we'll use to cook with I'm using a medium
sized pot it makes about six servings of soup so it's time to put our chicken
into the pot add the vegetables we prepared into the pot we'll also be
adding two teaspoons or 10 grams of a dried herb called time now you can add
your liquid I'm adding about eight cups or 1.8 liters of water or however much
you need to cover the chicken and fill the pot after this I like to stir it
around a bit just to mix everything together
now we'll turn our heat onto high and leave it on high until the soup starts
to simmer like this we don't want the soup to boil we just want to cook it
very gently stir it a little bit just to make sure everything is okay once the
soup is simmering and not boiling reduce the heat to low like this and cover the
soup with the lid okay we're going to cook the soup like this for one hour you
can check on the soup a few times and stir it a bit but I like to just let it
cook for one hour without touching it so
after one hour your soup should look something like this
you should be able to see the chicken fat on top of the soup and the chicken
should be fully cooked looks great but it's not ready yet
now we're going to remove the chicken from the soup I'm using a tool called
tongs to do this which makes it very easy we move the chicken to a plate and
let the chicken cool down for about 10 to 15 minutes during this time give the
soup another stir and add one half of a teaspoon or 2.5 grams of another dried
herb called marjoram we're building some really great flavor now go ahead and
stir the marjoram I like this next step because it helps
to build the chicken flavor of the soup skim off some of the chicken fat on top
and add it to a small bowl you can see how much I'm skimming off here probably
about 1 cup or 235 milliliters next take one tablespoon or 15 grams of flour and
put it into the fat you skimmed off take a fork and mix these together until it
looks and smells like a chicken gravy this is going to help boost the flavor
of our soup and also make it just a little bit thicker so put the gravy into
the soup and mix together quickly with a whisk you'll start to see that the soup
thickens a little bit let's go back to our chicken which should be cool enough
to handle right now you can see I can just pull the chicken off of the bone
with my hands you'll want to pull all the chicken off and throw away the bones
before we put our chicken back in we should taste the soup we are checking
for the flavor maybe it needs a little bit of salt or pepper
well I tasted mine and it needed both so I added 1 TSP or 5 grams of salt and 1/2
teaspoon or 2.5 grams of black pepper stir the salt and pepper in and I tasted
my soup and it was perfect now it's time to put
our chicken back into the soup just throw it in and stir it around there
you're done you can of course add more ingredients to the soup many people like
to make it spicy this soup is very warm it tastes savory rich and deep in flavor
it reminds me of something my mother would make this is also very healthy you
can also add some cooked noodles to it or some rice I'm going to add both wow
that tastes great I hope you enjoyed today's lesson and recipe the full list
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