Chicken and Tomato Soup with Rice

Name: Chicken and Tomato Soup with Rice
Cuisine: Lebanese
Ingredients: 1 baby chicken boiled or cooked until tender with all aromatics (couple of cardamoms, clovers, 1 carrot, 1 onion, 1 cube stock, ½ tsp white pepper, ½ tsp ground cinnamon, salt to taste); 1 baby chicken boiled or cooked until tender with all aromatics (couple of cardamoms, clovers, 1 carrot, 1 onion, 1 cube stock, ½ tsp white pepper, ½ tsp ground cinnamon, salt to taste); 1 baby chicken boiled or cooked until tender with all aromatics (couple of cardamoms, clovers, 1 carrot, 1 onion, 1 cube stock, ½ tsp white pepper, ½ tsp ground cinnamon, salt to taste); 1 baby chicken boiled or cooked until tender with all aromatics (couple of cardamoms, clovers, 1 carrot, 1 onion, 1 cube stock, ½ tsp white pepper, ½ tsp ground cinnamon, salt to taste); 1 baby chicken boiled or cooked until tender with all aromatics (couple of cardamoms, clovers, 1 carrot, 1 onion, 1 cube stock, ½ tsp white pepper, ½ tsp ground cinnamon, salt to taste); 1 baby chicken boiled or cooked until tender with all aromatics (couple of cardamoms, clovers, 1 carrot, 1 onion, 1 cube stock, ½ tsp white pepper, ½ tsp ground cinnamon, salt to taste); 1 baby chicken boiled or cooked until tender with all aromatics (couple of cardamoms, clovers, 1 carrot, 1 onion, 1 cube stock, ½ tsp white pepper, ½ tsp ground cinnamon, salt to taste); 5 ripe tomatoes, washed, quartered and deseeded; 50 g Easy Cook rice, or 50 g mini pasta stars or other shapes; 50 g Easy Cook rice, or 50 g mini pasta stars or other shapes; 50 g Easy Cook rice, or 50 g mini pasta stars or other shapes; 2 tbsps tomato purée; Salt to taste; ½ tsp ground cinnamon; ½ tsp black pepper; Some roughly chopped parsley for garnish at the end and a wedge of lemon; Some roughly chopped parsley for garnish at the end and a wedge of lemon; 1.2 litres saved chicken stock; 1 tbsp butter

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Ramadan Express

By Lina Saad

Published 2017

About

This recipe holds a special place in my heart; it was one of my aunt’s favourites and to coax me to eat it, she prepared it with mini pasta flowers or alphabet shapes. Now obviously, you are welcome to try my aunt’s version with mini pasta or mine with rice; they both taste excellent.

Ingredients

1 baby chicken boiled or cooked until tender with all aromatics (couple of cardamoms, clovers, 1 carrot

Asia
Lebanon
Soup
Gluten-free
Mediterranean
Ramadan

Method

Once the chicken is thoroughly cooked, let it cool and debone into little shreds or strips while saving its stock.

In a suitable pot, add the butter and sauté the tomatoes into it. This should take about 8 minutes; as the tomatoes are being sealed now, add the rice and stir for further 5 minutes and you can see the rice is puffing slowly.

Add the chicken stock, tomato purée and