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Cream of Chicken Soup
Ingredients
Cream of Chicken Soup 10 Servings – Portion Ingredients Required: 1 kg Chicken or Turkey also could be used Pepper Corns 15 g. Carrots-2 Leeks-1 no. Celery –1 no. Onions 2 nos. Bay leaf – 4-5 nos. Butter 100 g. Refined flour or all purpose flour 100 g. Cream 200 ml. Chicken Stock/Water – 02 lts. S Salt to taste.
Method
Method : Wash the Chicken thoroughly & place in cold water (or) cold stock. Add to it Pepper Corns, finely chopped Celery, Carrots, Leeks & Onions. Bring to a boil & simmer gently till the flesh from the chicken falls apart from the bone. Strain the liquid & keep aside. Melt Butter over very low heat & add refined flour, cook with discolouring. Remove when the smell of flour disappears. Add this to the liquid & whisk nicely so that no lumps form. Bring to a boil till the soup thickens. Remove from fire, add Cream, butter & mix well. Check for Seasonings & serve Hot garnished with cooked Chicken pieces, chopped parsley & Cream. ** For Vegetarians –Cream of Mushrooms; Cream of Palak, Cream of Potato Soup. Etc. Instead of Chicken or Turkey use Mushrooms; Palak Potato, Broccoli etc., all other ingredients & method is the same.

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