So it is winter and it is cold and I feel like it is all taking its toll on me... So it is time for clear light gingery limey soup...
This was another made up recipes that turn out just fine and dandy...
CHICKEN STOCK
i got a little packet of chicken drumsticks from the shop to make my first ever chicken stock, as they say that is soul food and damn my house smelt good when it was simmering on the stove, not the putrid wet dead animal smell i was expecting... So this takes a bit of time, but it is not at all difficult in the slightest and it just does its thing while you do yours.
I just chopped up a small onion and some garlic cloves and fried them in some butter in a pan and then added the chicken drums when that was translucent and sweated and covered it all well with water and added some salt pepper and bay leaves bring it to the boil skimmed the junk off the top and turned the heat down and let it simmer for 2-3 minutes... then you have chicken stock, simple...
LIME AND GINGER NOODLES
I chopped up ready some fresh coriander roots, lots of ginger root, a shallot some chilli would have been good but I didn't think I could stomach it, and fried that together in some oil in a pot, then i transferred some of the chicken stock and chicken pieces as much as required (the remainder will be used for chicken and vegetable soup tomorrow) through in handful of brown button mushrooms chopped in half, some lime leaves and a little green onion... when it was almost done and ready I threw in the vermicelli noodles and some coriander leaves, these cook so quickly that you are basically then immediately serving it and putting it on the table and squeezing in the juice of some fresh lime...
this soup is a winter blessing ...
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