Chicken & Southern-style Noodles

Total Time: 3 hrs Preparation Time: 1 hr Cook Time: 2 hrs

Ingredients

• 2 bone-in skin-on chicken breasts
• 20 baby carrots
• 3 celery ribs
• 1 whole sweet onion
• 2 tablespoons real butter
• 1/2 teaspoon basil
• 6 cups chicken broth
• 5 cups water
• 1/2 teaspoon parsley
• 4 eggs
• 2 pinches salt
• 1/4 teaspoon ground pepper
• 1/4 cup shortening
• 1/2 cup water
• 2 cups flour
• 5 cups chicken broth
• 2 cups water
• 3 cups flour
• 2 tablespoons cornstarch
• 2 tablespoons ice cold water
• 1 teaspoon onion powder

Recipe

• 1 dice celery, carrots and onion and place in large stock pot.
• 2 add chicken breast, 6 cups chicken broth and 5 cups water, basil, salt and pepper to taste and 2 tbs butter.
• 3 bring to a boil then turn to medium to medium high heat and boil for 1 1/2 hour.
• 4 while chicken is boiling make noodles.
• 5 in large mixing bowl add 2 cups flour, parsley, eggs, 2 pinches of salt and 1/2 tsp ground pepper, shortening and stir.
• 6 once dough starts to form flour both hands and knead. keep adding additional flour a little at a time until the dough quits sticking to your hands.
• 7 turn dough onto floured surface and with a floured rolling pin roll to 1/8 inch thickness.
• 8 using a pizza cutter cut noddles into thin 1 - 1 1/2 inch strips
• 9 lightly dust with flour.
• 10 sprinkle with onion powder.
• 11 cover with paper towels and let dry.
• 12 take chicken out of pot and let cool then de-bone and shred using two forks to shred
• 13 add chicken back to pot and bring back to a boil.
• 14 add the additional chicken broth and water and bring back up to a boil.
• 15 add noodles one at a time quickly to pot.
• 16 in a small dish mix the cornstarch and cold water and make into a slurry then add to stock pot.
• 17 stir noodles every couple minutes to keep noodles from sticking to each other and cook for 20-30 minutes.
• 18 take one noodle out and taste to see if it's done which you can tell by it's firmness and less floury taste.