Hey everyone, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, cock-a-leekie soup. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Remove chicken, discard the bones and skin, chop meat into bite size pieces and return to the pot. Place a large Dutch oven or soup pot over. As with many time-honored recipes, this soup has several variations—and none are wrong—although all are commonly served with big chunks of vegetables and chicken. This porridgelike soup has Scottish roots.
Cock-a-leekie Soup is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Cock-a-leekie Soup is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have cock-a-leekie soup using 11 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Cock-a-leekie Soup:
- Take 1 2 - 3 lb whole chicken
- Prepare 5 cups water
- Get 1/2 onion , chopped
- Make ready 3 tbsp barley
- Get 1 (10.5 ounce) can chicken broth condensed
- Get 3 leeks , sliced (make sure to wash really, really well to get all the grit out from between the leaves!)
- Get 1 celery stalk , thickly sliced
- Take 1 carrot large , thickly sliced
- Get 1 tsp thyme fresh , chopped
- Make ready 1 tsp parsley fresh , chopped
- Prepare to taste Salt Pepper &
A nut-brown sausage, of course, is rarely an unwelcome thing to come across at the bottom of the bowl, but unless you are making cock-a-leekie from a carcass that has been picked entirely clean,. Heat all ingredients except leeks to boiling in large stockpot or Dutch oven. Cock-a-Leekie soup is a traditional choice for the soup course on Burns Night, but you can make this Scottish chicken, leek and rice soup anytime of year. If you're having a Burns Night supper, you'll probably have to make some decisions on the menu.
Steps to make Cock-a-leekie Soup:
- In a large pot over high heat, combine the chicken, water, onion and barley. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to low and simmer for 1 1/2 to 2 hours, or until chicken is tender.
- Remove chicken, and shred meat from bones, returning to pot. (Save carcass and use for homemade stock!)
- Add the chicken broth, leeks, celery, carrot, thyme, parsley, salt and ground black pepper. Simmer for 30 more minutes, or until all vegetables are tender.
Cock-a-Leekie soup is a traditional choice for the soup course on Burns Night, but you can make this Scottish chicken, leek and rice soup anytime of year. If you're having a Burns Night supper, you'll probably have to make some decisions on the menu. For example, for the soup course, you can make Cock-a-Leekie soup or Cullen Skink. Typically its main ingredients are meat or chicken, leeks, and prunes - with variations on the spices and extras. Cock-a-leekie soup is a Scottish soup dish consisting of leeks and peppered chicken stock, often thickened with rice, or sometimes barley.
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