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Chicken Soup-Puree with Eggs

If you have hand blender this is a soup recipe to try for you: pureed chicken in vegetable broth thickened with flour and beaten eggs.

Hand blender works great to mince chicken meat as well as to break any knots in flour feeling (if needed).

Stand blender or meat mincer will work as well, just mince meat with a bit of broth before adding it to the pot.

Ingredients:

  • 2 cornish hens, or young chicken about 2-2.5lb, cleaned
  • 2-3 carrots
  • 2 parsnips or parsley roots
  • A slice of celery root
  • 1 onion
  • 1/2 cup of all purpose flour
  • 2oz of butter (1/2 stick)
  • 2 eggs
  • Juice of 1 lemon
  • 1/2 teaspoon of ground black pepper
  • Salt to taste

How to prepare, step-by-step:

  1. Prepare ingredients:
    Chicken Soup-Puree with Eggs Recipe: Step 1
  2. Rinse hens, put them in a cooking pot and fill pot with water so it covers chickens completely, put on burner over moderate low heat:
    Chicken Soup-Puree with Eggs Recipe: Step 2
  3. Meanwhile peel all vegetables (carrots, parsnips, onion, celery root), and slice them into not so small pieces:
    Chicken Soup-Puree with Eggs Recipe: Step 3
  4. Once water in the pot starts boiling, add all vegetables at once:
    Chicken Soup-Puree with Eggs Recipe: Step 4
  5. Salt to taste and let chicken cook until ready, I would say an hour of slow simmering will do it:
    Chicken Soup-Puree with Eggs Recipe: Step 5
  6. When chickens are ready (meat is soft when you pierce it with a knife and it can be easily separated from bones), carefully take both chickens out, let them cool down a bit, remove and discard skin and separate meat from bones:
    Chicken Soup-Puree with Eggs Recipe: Step 6
  7. You can add cleaned big bones back to the pot with broth to cook more while you work on the other steps:
    Chicken Soup-Puree with Eggs Recipe: Step 7
  8. Cover pot with a lid, leave a small hole between lid and a pot and drain a bit of broth to a bowl (about 2 cups), return pot to burner:
    Chicken Soup-Puree with Eggs Recipe: Step 8
  9. Melt all butter in another pot over moderate heat, add all flour at once:
    Chicken Soup-Puree with Eggs Recipe: Step 9
  10. And fry butter and flour together stirring all the time until homogeneous, break all knots:
    Chicken Soup-Puree with Eggs Recipe: Step 10
  11. Gradually mix in 2 cups of broth you prepared earlier, again, make sure to break all knots:
    Chicken Soup-Puree with Eggs Recipe: Step 11
  12. Remove both pots from heat; using colander strain remaining of the broth to the pot with flour and butter mix:
    Chicken Soup-Puree with Eggs Recipe: Step 12
  13. Add all chicken meat you separated earlier:
    Chicken Soup-Puree with Eggs Recipe: Step 13
  14. Add about half teaspoon of ground black pepper:
    Chicken Soup-Puree with Eggs Recipe: Step 14
  15. And chop it all using hand blender (you can also use stand blender or meat mincer, but I find hand one easier to use) until totally homogeneous:
    Chicken Soup-Puree with Eggs Recipe: Step 15a
    Chicken Soup-Puree with Eggs Recipe: Step 15b
  16. Put pot back to the burner over moderate heat, bring to boil and cook for 10 mins more:
    Chicken Soup-Puree with Eggs Recipe: Step 16
  17. Then remove from burner, while hot gradually whisk 2 lightly beaten eggs in:
    Chicken Soup-Puree with Eggs Recipe: Step 17
  18. Add squeezed juice of one lemon and add more salt if needed:
    Chicken Soup-Puree with Eggs Recipe: Step 18
  19. Pour to soup bowls and serve seasoned with finely chopped green parsley:
    Chicken Soup-Puree with Eggs Recipe: Step 19
Enjoy!