Favorite Chicken Noodle Soup

Total Time: 3 hrs 20 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 3 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 3 -4 lbs broiler chickens
• 12 cups water
• 2 onions
• 5 stalks celery
• 5 carrots
• 2 parsnips
• 2 cups fresh parsley
• 4 garlic cloves
• salt
• pepper
• 2 bay leaves
• 2 teaspoons thyme
• 2 -3 cups egg noodles

Recipe

• 1 put the chicken in a pot, cover with the water.
• 2 add one onion quartered, 2 carrots halved, 2 stalks of celery halved, 1 cup parsley, thyme, garlic and bay leaves.
• 3 boil, reduce heat and simmer, scraping off the foam at the top about 30 minutes inches.
• 4 simmer 1.5 hours, remove chicken. cool and remove the meat.
• 5 strain stock and cool (i like to cool it overnight) skim fat off the top.
• 6 chop the remaining 3 carrots, celery, parsnips and onion. add them to the stock and cook about an hour, adding the meat near the end to heat though.
• 7 cook egg noodles and pour soup over them in the bowl.
• 8 *i never keep the noodles in the soup- they can get mushy.
• 9 **if you like a stronger taste, add 1-2 tbs bullion to the stock.