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A taste of traditional Chicken Soup with Rice

Written by Published on Updated on May 21, 2019 in Dinner, Lunch, Soups

This is soup season with the cold coming in strong what better comfort food to have than soup.  So many different recipes for Chicken soup, I find it so difficult to choose which one is or could be my favorite.

This soup is so different from the others because I have tweaked it slightly so by adding bay leaf, and I have not added any vegetables because I wanted the taste from the bay leaf  to stand out from the rest of the ingredients.  I hope you enjoy  🙂

A TASTE OF TRADITIONAL CHICKEN SOUP WITH RICE

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Ingredients
  

  • 2 pieces of boiled Chicken shredded breast or thighs
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 1 whole Onion
  • 3 tablespoons of Olive Oil
  • 1/2 cup of Rice
  • 6 cups water
  • Salt and Pepper

Instructions
 

  • Add the water, chicken and the whole onion into a large sauce pot and boil until chicken has cooked. When the chicken is ready take it out of the pot and set it aside for later use.
  • Add in the Olive Oil, bay leaf, salt and pepper, leave the onion in the pot to continue boiling with the rest of the ingredients for about 30 minutes.
  • Shred the chicken into small pieces and add into the boiling pot along with the rice. The rice I have used is specifically for soups, but you can use any rice of your choice. Let this simmer until rice has been cooked.
  • I have to apologize for not having pictures, but ummm I deleted them by accident. I thought I had uploaded them but I realized after deleting them that they were not.

Welcome to a small corner of my Greek Heritage. Growing up in New York from Greek parents, was a challenge of its own...but the traditional food, tastes and aromas that my mother cooked always travelled me back to Greece. My mother is a wonderful cook, our house would always have that smell of home cooked food. I remember very clearly that we were only allowed fast food, once a week, that was a huge day for myself and my brother. Jumping up and down in the back car seat, laughing, just being kids. It is true that we all like to eat different foods, taste, smell, even try food that looks different than our regular meals at home and I think that is so natural. In my teens, I was not really into cooking, I enjoyed my magazines after school, listening to music, and just taking a breather. There were times that I would glance at some of my mom's recipes, more out of curiosity than to actually try to cook them. At that time I did not realise that cooking would become my passion one day. Slowly, I would start to look into my mom's recipes a bit more each day and I started to find it interesting as a hobby. Each month I would go into our neighborhood bookstore and pick up my monthly book, until one day I decided to stroll over into the cooking section. That summer was the first time I actually bought a cooking magazine....and I loved it. Cooking and baking started out as a hobby, but now after many years it is my passion. Exploring the cuisines, the spices, the oils, the scents, the variety of smells and tastes that exist. It was and still is an amazing journey without limits. So, come along with me on this adventure, and I hope you enjoy my recipes. Sophie

20 Comments

  1. Ritu
    December 1, 2017 at 7:38 am  ·  Reply
    Yummy warming food!
  2. Vero and Canito in the kitchen
    December 1, 2017 at 8:43 am  ·  Reply
    Great in this weather! ;-) Nice post, Sophie!
  3. MichaelStephenWills
    December 1, 2017 at 11:33 am  ·  Reply
    Lovely food photography.....harder to do that it seems.
  4. mistimaan
    December 1, 2017 at 5:00 pm  ·  Reply
    Loved your recipe :)
  5. dtills
    December 1, 2017 at 7:39 pm  ·  Reply
    Looks delicious Sophie :)
  7. Novus Lectio
    December 8, 2017 at 3:13 pm  ·  Reply
    Ohhh i love this soup . My mom used to make it for me when I was sick

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