How to Prepare Perfect Wholesome Chicken Soup

Wholesome Chicken Soup.

You can have Wholesome Chicken Soup using 19 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Wholesome Chicken Soup

1. Prepare 1.5 lbs of chicken thigh meat, deboned and deskinned.
2. It's 5 of whole peeled cloves garlic.
3. You need 1 of large onion, quartered.
4. You need 2 of carrots, cut into 1 inch pieces.
5. Prepare 2 of celery stalk, cut into 2 inch pieces.
6. You need 4 of whole shiitake mushrooms.
7. Prepare 5 of peppercorns.
8. Prepare 4 of bay leaves.
9. It's dash of dried ginger powder.
10. Prepare 2 of carrots cut into centimeter cubes.
11. Prepare 2 of celery stalks cut into centimeter cubes.
12. Prepare 1/2 tsp of turmeric.
13. You need 2 tsp of soy sauce.
14. It's 1 tsp of Worcestershire.
15. Prepare 1 tsp of Chinese rice wine.
16. You need 1 tbsp of butter.
17. It's 1 tsp of salt.
18. You need to taste of Pepper.
19. It's of Sour cream to serve.

Wholesome Chicken Soup instructions

1. Take 1.5-2 lbs of chicken meat, preferably with a little bone or skin for fat/flavor (here I used 1.5 lbs of mostly cleaned chicken thighs) and fry in oil in a ceramic coated cast iron dutch oven (I love Lodge)..
2. Then add 4-5 cups of very warm water, 5 whole cloves of garlic, 1 large quartered onion, 2 carrots in 1"pieces, 2 celery stalks in 2" pieces, 4-5 whole shiitake mushrooms, 5 peppercorns, dash dried ginger powder, 4-5 bay leaves (I use large Indian ones), and bring to a boil..
3. Once at a boil, reduce to a simmer for about 60 mins..
4. After 60 mins, remove boiled carrot, celery and bay leaves and discard. Roughly chop the boiled onion and return to pan..
5. Remove chicken, shred and remove any fat chunks and return to pan. Cut 2 carrots and 2 celery stalks into 1 cm^3 pieces and add to pan..
6. Remove mushrooms, cut into quarters (and remove any remaining stem)..
7. Here I also add 1/2 tsp turmeric, 1-2 tsp soy sauce, 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce, 1 tsp Chinese rice wine, and a tbsp butter..
8. Simmer soup until new carrot/celery pieces are tender. Add 1 tsp salt and several good cranks of pepper..
9. Serve with dollop of sour cream..