Lemongrass Chicken Soup I Made It Ii

Lemongrass Chicken Soup

chuckieb 7 years ago
I made Oliviajasonkim's
Lemongrass Chicken Soup W Egg Noodles
last night for the IMI II's November Soup Challenge.

It's a very yummy soup and I really enjoyed it. I found the recipe itself a little awkward and I'd change things up a bit making it next time just for ease and using less pots. The poster uses one pot for the stock, one pot for the lemongrass/chicken mixture, one fry pan to sear the chicken and mushrooms and then one more pot to cook the egg noodles. That's a lot of dishes.

The recipe says to put the chicken (it calls for breast meat but I used b/s thighs), lemongrass stalks, onion and ginger together in a pot and boil for a half hour, removing the chicken breast half way through and then searing the chicken breast in a fry pan with a bit of oil after that. I figured the poster probably meant to say to add water to those first ingredients 'just to cover', so that's what I did. I'm not fond of boiling chicken in water, and I did salt the water although the recipe didn't say to do that. For ease next time, I'd just skip using the fry pan altogether and I'd just slice the raw chicken pieces and add to the chicken stock along with the enoki mushrooms and the egg noodles.

The lemongrass, onion, ginger pot had a great aroma and once it was done I strained the water and added it to my chicken broth (home made) and pepper flakes. It made a nice stock although perhaps next time I'd use more lemongrass as I couldn't really taste it in the final product.

I liked the addition of kimchi in this and overall the soup had a nice heat to it.

I didn't bother with the lime slice.

My picture isn't as pretty as the posters. I should have added my egg noodles first and then the kimchi, chicken and mushrooms on top so you could see them better. :)

Again, this was yummy and I will make it again. Thanks Oliviajasonkim!
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bakerme 7 years ago said:

Beautiful photo, Chuckie! It sounds like chicken soup with an Asian twist - yum!

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Cosmicmother 7 years ago said:

Beautiful photo Janet!
I agree, this recipe could be simplified a bit better. It sounds delicious though! :)

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gaspesiangal 7 years ago said:

I agree, beautiful photo. Wow, way too many steps and pots. It does look good though.

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mommyluvs2cook 7 years ago said:

I think your picture is wonderful Janet! You definitely could cut down on the pots with some adjustments. I'm with you, I don't like the thought of boiled chicken.

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LindaLMT 7 years ago said:

I too think your picture is great!! Happy you enjoyed it!

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