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Read the Label – A Rant and a Recipe
From the Soup Category at emealsforyou.com.
Chicken Soup
From the label of Campbell’s Chicken with Rice Soup. Ingredients: Chicken Stock, Rice, Chicken Meat, Carrots, Less than 2% of: Modified Food Starch, Chicken Fat, Salt, Celery, Monosodium Glutamate, Flavoring (Soy), Potassium Chloride, Sugar, Maltoextrin, Onions, Vegetable Oil, Mechanically Separated Chicken, Yeast Extract, Cornstarch, Lower Sodium Natural Sea Salt, Beta Carotene, Sodium Phosphate, Soy Protein Isolate, Disodium Inosinate and Disodium Guanylate, Lactic Acid, Spice, Chicken (Dehydrated)
WOW, I can’t pronounce half of these ingredients on the Campbell’s Chicken with Rice can much less want to feed them to my family. Hard to believe all of these are in a 10 1/2 oz condensed can. Come on people; you can do better than this. It takes only a few minutes to start a great pot of soup for your family. Let it cook for a while and you will have a wholesome meal for your family with enough left over for at least one more meal. Make my soup once and I promise it will become a family favorite; or perhaps your really like Disodium Inosinate.
Old Fashioned Chicken Soup
| Complexity: | Easy |
| Serves: | 10 |
| Category: | Soups |
| Meal: | Weekly 8 (Quick Meals Planner) |
| 3 | Tb | oil, olive |
| 5 | lb | chicken, whole, cut up |
| 2 | tsp | salt, kosher |
| 2 | medium | onions, chopped |
| 1 | cup | carrots, diced |
| 4 | medium | celery ribs |
| 50 | oz | chicken broth |
| 70 | oz | water |
| 1 | pinch | salt and pepper to taste |
| 0.5 | recipe | spaetzle |
This recipe makes a lot of soup and you will have extra cooked chicken leftover for another use. Heat a large soup pot, add the olive oil, when it begins to shimmer add the cut up and dried chicken. Brown, don’t burn, the chicken on both sides. Add the onion, carrots, celery, salt, and stir. Lightly brown the vegetables; add the broth and water and stir. Cook on a low boil for 20 -30 minutes; until the chicken is fork tender. Remove the chicken to a platter and taste the broth. Depending on the chicken, the broth may need to be reduced to concentrate the flavors. Cook on the boil until the broth is tasty. In the meantime, remove the chicken from the bones. Cut half the chicken into small pieces and add back to the soup pot. Once the soup is done adjust the salt and pepper to taste. (It is important to not add the salt prior to reducing; as the soup will become too salty)
Bring the soup back up to the boil. Drop the spaetzle batter into the boiling soup to form small dumplings.
Use the remaining chicken in chicken salad or tacos.
More delicious soups, less crazy ingredients at emealsforyou.com.
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