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Chicken Noodle Soup Sichuan Style Recipe


Chicken Noodle Soup Sichuan Style Recipe
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A delicious bowl of chicken noodle soup, Shichuan style. guaranteed to warm you up on a cold winter day.

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Ingredients
  • 1 tbsp soy sauce
  • 1 tsp grated ginger
  • 1 tsp Asian chili sauce
  • 1 tsp sesame oil
  • 3 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
  • Salt and freshly ground pepper
  • Soup
  • 8 oz fresh chow mein noodles
  • 8 cups chicken soup (recipe below)
  • 1 tbsp soy sauce
  • 1/2 tsp Asian chili sauce
  • 1 tsp grated ginger
  • 1/2 cup snow peas
  • 4 shiitake mushrooms, stems removed, sliced
  • 2 cups baby spinach leaves
  • 3 green onions, chopped
  • 1/4 cup torn coriander leaves
  • 1/2 tsp sesame oil, optional
  • One 4 lb chicken, preferably free range
  • 2 lbs backs and necks
  • 2 large onions, unpeeled, cut in chunks
  • 3 large carrots, cut in chunks
  • 3 stalks celery, cut in chunks
  • 4 cloves garlic, unpeeled
  • 6 peppercorns
  • 4 sprigs parsley
  • 8 oz egg noodles
  • Salt and freshly ground pepper

Directions
  1. Combine soy sauce, ginger, Asian chili sauce and sesame oil.
  2. Brush over chicken breasts.
  3. Season with salt and pepper.
  4. Marinate for 30 minutes.
  5. Grill breasts 5 minutes per side in a grill pan or on a grill, or until juices are clear.
  6. Slice into 1/2-inch strips.
  7. Bring a large pot of water to boil and add noodles.
  8. Cook 2 to 3 minutes or until soft.
  9. Drain and reserve.
  10. Heat soup in large soup pot on medium heat.
  11. Mix in soy sauce, chili sauce and ginger and simmer for 5 minutes.
  12. Add snow peas and mushrooms and simmer another 5 minutes.
  13. Add spinach and simmer until just wilted.
  14. Stir in green onions and coriander leaves.
  15. Taste for seasoning adding salt, pepper or more soy sauce if desired.
  16. Divide noodles among 3 or 4 large bowls.
  17. Divide chicken among bowls.
  18. Pour over soup and vegetables.
  19. Drizzle with sesame oil, if desired.
  20. Chicken Soup
  21. Look for plump, yellow-skinned chickens, not white skinny ones.
  22. The chicken meat can be used for salad or chicken pot pie or diced up and returned to the soup for serving.
  23. Cover chicken and backs and necks with water by about 1-inch in large pot.
  24. Bring to boil.
  25. Reduce heat to low and skim the foam that rises to the surface.
  26. Add onions, carrots, celery, garlic, peppercorns and parsley.
  27. Simmer soup for 1 hour maintaining a gentle simmer with some bubbles rising to the top.
  28. If you cook the soup on too high a heat, it turns cloudy.
  29. After 1 hour, check the chicken and if the juices are clear, remove from soup pot.
  30. Cool a little, remove bones, discard skin and return bones to pot, reserving chicken for another use.
  31. Simmer for 2 hours longer or until soup is filled with flavor.
  32. Strain, discarding bones and vegetables.
  33. Chill and remove fat.

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Great flavors an ingredients thanks


Wow..This sounds delicious momo...I live in Winnipeg...Winter will be upon us very soon..You can be sure that I will be making this...Thank you


So flavorful! Great recipe!


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