Name: Chicken Noodle Soup
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 8 ounces/225 grams egg noodles; Kosher salt to taste; 5 cups/1.2 liters Easy Overnight Chicken Stock or store-bought chicken broth; 1 tablespoon olive oil; 2 garlic cloves, minced; 1 large carrot, sliced obliquely or diced; 1 medium onion, diced; 2 celery ribs, cut into ¼-inch/6-millimeter slices; 1 tablespoon fish sauce (optional); 1 cup/180 grams shredded or diced cooked chicken; 4 to 6 thyme sprigs (tied together with kitchen string if you have it to make them easier to remove); Grated zest of ½ lemon; 1 tablespoon finely chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

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From Scratch

By Michael Ruhlman

Published 2019

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I would lay odds that homemade chicken noodle soup really does heal. I made it last for my wife, Ann, who was feeling a cold coming on. She woke the next day symptom free, certain that it had been the magic of the soup. When you make it with your own chicken stock, there is no denying that chicken noodle soup is dense with nutrition, somehow a perfect combination of vegetables, starch, and protein that leaves you completely sated but never overly full.

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