Chicken soup with noodles

Ingredients

Directions

1. 1

   Wash the chicken thoroughly inside and out. Put it in a sufficiently large pot and cover with 3 1/2-4 litres of warm water. Halve the onions and fry the cut surface in a pan without fat.

2. 2

   1 bunch of soup greens clean or peel, wash and roughly dice. Put onion halves and soup vegetables into the pot. Season the water with salt, laurel, juniper and cloves. Bring to the boil and simmer at low heat for about 2 hours.

3. 3

   In between remove protein foam with a skimmer. Clean or peel and wash the remaining soup vegetables. Cut leek into thin slices, celery, parsley root and carrots into thin strips.

4. 4

   Prepare the pasta in boiling salted water according to the instructions on the packet. Remove chicken from the stock. Pour broth through a fine sieve. Measure out 3 litres of stock and heat. Use the rest of the stock for other purposes.

5. 5

   Cook the prepared vegetables and peas in the broth for about 10 minutes. Remove meat from the bones, remove skin. Cut meat into small pieces. Add meat and noodles to the soup. Season to taste with salt, pepper and a little nutmeg.

6. 6

   Serve the soup. Herb bread crôutons taste good with it.