Many people know about the benefits of chicken broth. It restores the depleted forces of the body after an illness or operation, helps to keep warm during hypothermia, eliminates the effects of alcohol intoxication. Properly prepared, delicious chicken broth has high nutritional value. This is a real storehouse of vitamins and other useful substances that a person needs for a healthy life.
Keep the broth clear: cooking tips
Tasty and fragrant transparent broth is the dream of every housewife. But to make it that way is far from always the case. In fact, in order for the broth to be transparent, you need to adhere to certain rules:
- The quality of the broth largely depends on the choice of chicken. Professional chefs prefer poultry. It is important that she is not old. Otherwise, it will not be possible to cook a clear broth from such a chicken .
- Before sending the bird to the pan, it must be washed well and remove excess fat. If the bird is not domestic, but was bought in a store, you can remove the skin from it. Do not cook chicken fillet broth. It will never turn out so fragrant and rich as from a whole carcass. Also, a good broth can come from the hips.
- Bring to a boil and cook the chicken only over low heat. At the very beginning of cooking, you need to salt water and add a whole onion to the bird. It will make the broth not only fragrant, but also transparent. Sometimes whole or coarsely chopped carrots and celery (or parsley) root are also added to the onion. But pepper and put in the water bay leaf should not be. From this, the broth will only darken.
- Immediately after boiling and periodically during cooking, foam should be removed from the broth. Do not cover the pan with a lid. This way you can avoid a strong boil, in which the broth becomes cloudy.
- Cook the broth for 3 hours. At the end of cooking, you need to strain it, then pour into a saucepan and let it simmer for the last time over low heat.
If you adhere to the suggested tips, the broth will turn out to be transparent, like a tear. Now you can add your favorite spices, noodles and other ingredients to it.
How to cook homemade noodles
The most delicious broth is obtained with homemade noodles. To knead the dough, for it, first, beat a large egg, 50 ml of water and a teaspoon of salt in a separate bowl. Then directly on the table or in a large bowl, sift the flour (approximately 150 g), make a depression in it and pour the egg mixture. Knead a cool elastic dough. First, it will stick to your hands and exfoliate. In fact, it should be so. After 10 minutes of mixing, a dense and elastic ball of dough will be obtained. It must be wrapped in tape and left on the table for 30 minutes. If this is not done, then gluten will not have time to swell enough and the dough will delaminate when rolled.
After the specified time, the prepared ball begins to roll out on the table. First up to 5 mm thick, then cut in the middle and roll each half up to 2 mm (the thinner the better). Before cutting the noodles, each layer must be dried in expanded form for 5 minutes. Then the dough is rolled up with a roll or envelope and thinly cut with a wide knife.
The resulting halves are shaken on the table with your hands and allowed to dry out a little. If the noodles are prepared for the future, it needs to be dried thoroughly, for 5 hours, and it is recommended to store it in a cloth bag.
Classic noodle broth
While the broth is being cooked, you can prepare a vegetable dressing for it in advance. Onions are chopped into cubes, and carrots are grated or cut into cubes. Vegetables are alternately fried in vegetable oil until cooked.
When the strained broth re-boils, noodles are added to it. It is important that it boils strong enough. Otherwise, the noodles may become sour. Cook it for 3 minutes, no more. Then vegetable dressing is added to the chicken broth with noodles.
Boil everything together for another 3-4 minutes, and you can turn off the stove. Delicious chicken stock with homemade noodles is ready. It is served at the table with greens and crunchy croutons.
Chicken stock with noodles and egg
In order for the chicken broth to have a presentable appearance, it is served with a boiled egg. Preparing such a dish is not difficult. After all, almost all recipes with chicken broth are identical. It is enough to cook the bird correctly and make good homemade noodles.
To cook this dish you need to cook chicken. It is better to strain the resulting broth to remove all the scum and make it even more transparent. Let it boil again, after which you can add the noodles, and after a few minutes, vegetables stewed in a pan.
Quail or chicken eggs for the broth are boiled in advance. They need to be peeled and cut in half. Before serving chicken broth with noodles on the table, it is decorated with eggs and herbs. Enjoy your meal!
Slow cooked noodle broth
The main advantage of cooking the broth in the multicooker is that it will always boil slowly, literally languish. And you don’t have to remove the foam.
According to the recipe, put three chicken thighs in a multicooker bowl and pour 1.5 liters of hot water. Cook meat for 1.5 hours in the "Soup" mode.
After a while, get the chicken, take it into pieces, send it back into the bowl with the noodles. Set the cooking mode to "Multi-cook" (or "Steamed", or "Grain") and cook the broth for another 10 minutes. The slow cooker will signal the completion of cooking.
Sprinkle chicken broth with noodles abundantly with herbs directly in the slow cooker. A tasty and healthy diet dish is ready.
Chicken stock noodles
As a rule, the broth remains transparent until noodles are lowered into it. From this he immediately becomes cloudy. This is especially true for homemade noodles sprinkled with flour.
To maintain the transparency of the finished broth when serving, you should use a simple secret. To do this, cook the noodles in a separate pan for 8 minutes. When it is ready, it should be laid out on the bottom of a deep plate and pour in the broth prepared according to the classic recipe. Here you can add chopped boiled carrots (from the broth), herbs and any other ingredients.
There is another way to cook this dish. You need to cook the noodles for 3 minutes until half cooked in a separate pan. After that, it is placed in the broth for another 4-5 minutes. Such homemade noodles on chicken broth are even tastier, after which it is saturated with aroma and taste. Enjoy your meal!
Chicken stock with croutons and noodles
The preparation of the broth with croutons is carried out in the same way as in previous recipes. First, cook the chicken for three hours. Then we take it out, filter the broth and send noodles into it. Before serving, sprinkle with herbs, add the egg and croutons to the plate. It is with these crispy cubes or slices that the chicken broth with noodles is even tastier.
To prepare croutons, you will need a white loaf, which is cut into small cubes or slices. A baking sheet for the oven is greased with a small amount of butter or vegetable oil, there you need to squeeze out a clove of garlic through a press and pour out the sliced bread. Send croutons for browning in the oven, heated to a temperature of 140 degrees, for 20 minutes. After the specified time, remove the baking sheet from the oven, allow the breadcrumbs to cool, and can be served in the broth.