Homemade Chicken Soup

Total Time: 2 hrs 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 2 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 1 small roasting chicken, whole
• 1 small onion
• 12 ounces diced tomatoes
• 1 cup carrot
• 3 tablespoons chicken bouillon (more to taste)
• 1 (8 ounce) box orzo pasta

Recipe

• 1 wash chicken and remove bag of parts from cavity. throw them away. wash inside of chicken.
• 2 put chicken in large pot and cover with water.
• 3 bring water to boil.
• 4 turn water down and gently cook for 1 hour - chicken should be falling off the bones.
• 5 take chicken out of water and allow to cool.
• 6 add to water: chopped up onion, can of diced tomatoes, chopped carrots, 1 tsp of "better than bouillon" (taste to see if more is needed).
• 7 break up chicken and pull all meat off bones into very small pieces.
• 8 put chicken pieces back into stock.
• 9 cook for another hour.
• 10 cook a box of orzo noodles separately, rinse, add to stock. - orzos are going to grow so don't add too much.
• 11 eat.