Recipes from Spain

With winter getting close it’s a good time to start preparing hot dishes, like this chicken soup. Chicken soup will bring you a nice dinner at night, but also stock chicken which can be used as another ingredient in some recipes.

Ingredients:

• 1 Onion
• 2-3 brances of celery
• 1 leek
• ½ pumpkin
• 1 chicken carcass
• 1 garlic head
• Thyme
• Rosemary
• Pasta

We will start placing a chicken carcass in a big pot. Then we will cut vegetables to add to the pot:

An onion in about 8 pieces, a garlic head just cut in half, 2 or 3 celery branches, one leek, half pumpkin. On the pot wi will aslo add salt, rosemary and thyme, and then cover the vegetables and chicken carcass with cold water.

You can also add other ingredientes like carrot, bay laurel leaves, pepper, chili (if you like it spicy), patatoe, artichoke, parsley …

Once water starts to boil let the stock on the fire about forty five minutes.

Use the stock to cook pasta, add more salt if needed and you have ready this chicken soup.

If you replace the chicken carcass with some prawns heads, the rests of some other fish you can make a fish stock, and cooking the pasta with the stock and the prawns you will get a really nice fish soup.

Finally once you test the recipe for first time you will prefer your soup to be more flavour concentrated or less, just increase the amount of vegetables if you want stronger flavour or decrease if you want it lighter.

Hope you like this recipe, see you soon!