If you want to enjoy a restorative and delicious soup, I recommend the best creamy chicken soup recipe, with sour cream and garlic, a delight. I’ll show you from scratch, how to cook one of the most famous recipes in Romania.
Table of Contents
- Let’s Start With the Ingredients
- Preparing the Ingredients
- How to Cook the Best Creamy Chicken Soup Recipe?
- How to Make Thickening Cream for Soup?
- Finishing the Chicken Soup
- Serving the Soup
Usually, chicken soup is a soup obtained by simmering chicken and vegetables. This recipe, which is very similar to Greek Lemon Chicken Soup, has in addition to the simple recipe, a thickening cream made from sour cream, egg yolk and garlic.
This recipe is known in Romania as “ciorba Radauteana” (Radautean Soup) and is in high demand in restaurants.
Let’s Start With the Ingredients
Because it’s about chicken soup, we need a whole chicken. If you want the soup to be tastier, I recommend using all parts of the chicken, especially the bones.
It is a small chicken, about one kilogram, but enough to get about 8 servings of soup.
We also need vegetables, of which I used about 300 g carrots, 100 g parsley root, 150 g celery root, a medium-sized onion and half a red bell pepper.
And for the whipping cream, I needed four egg yolks, about 300 ml of sour cream and a few cloves of garlic.
Preparing the Ingredients
We start with the chicken, which we cut into pieces. We will use all parts of the chicken, both the chest and thighs and the wings and back of the chicken.
We wash the vegetables and peel them, but we leave them whole, so we will boil them.
How to Cook the Best Creamy Chicken Soup Recipe?
The chicken soup starts with boiling chicken. To do this, place the chicken pieces in a soup pot.
Add two bay leaves, a teaspoon of peppercorns and a tablespoon of salt, then fill the pot with cold water and bring to a boil.
After it boils, reduces the heat to low and cook for about 15 minutes. With a whisk, gather the resulting foam from the soup to make it clearer.
Now we can add the whole vegetables, which we cook together with the meat, over medium to low heat.
Boil everything for about 45 minutes, until the meat comes off the bones.
After they have boiled, take out all the meat and vegetables in a bowl, and let them cool a bit.
The remaining soup, which is a chicken and vegetable stock, we strain through a sieve to obtain a clean soup, without impurities.
After the meat has cooled a bit, so that we can work with our hands, we detach it from the bones.
Then cut it into cubes or it can be left in broken strips by hand, as you wish.
From the vegetables, we will use only the carrots, which we cut into cubes.
Put the minced chicken and carrots back in the soup and bring the soup back to the boiling temperature, then thicken the soup.
How to Make Thickening Cream for Soup?
Compared to other thicknesses, it is made without wheat flour, just with egg yolks and sour cream. For this prepare four egg yolks in a bowl.
On top, grate or press, how do you like it, about 4-5 garlic cloves.
In order to incorporate it as well as possible, it is important not to chop the garlic.
Mix well until you get a paste, then add sour cream and mix well again.
Stir further until you get a homogeneous cream.
With this cream, we will thicken the chicken soup.
Finishing the Chicken Soup
When thickening the soup, we must be very careful not to coagulate eggs in the soup. To do this, turn off the heat under the soup, and wait for the boiling to stop.
Then we have to bring the thickening cream to the soup temperature. For this, pour over the cream two ladles of hot soup and mix.
Pour another 2-3 tablespoons of soup over the cream, mix, and now we can pour everything back into the pot. Season with sea salt, to taste, a teaspoon of freshly ground pepper and lemon juice.
And that’s it, that’s is the best creamy chicken soup recipe, which I recommend you try.
Serving the Soup
Serve hot, with fresh bread and pickled hot peppers.
If you want, you can also add sour cream and lemon juice or vinegar, according to your preferences.
I also recommend other soup recipes such as:
- White Bean Soup With Smoked Ribs
- Best Fish Soup Recipe
- Traditional Hungarian Goulash Recipe
- Best Cabbage Soup Recipe
- Smoked Sausage Potato Soup
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Best Creamy Chicken Soup recipe
Equipment
- 1 Soup Pot
Ingredients
- 1 kg whole chicken
- 300 g carrots
- 100 g parsley root
- 150 g cellery root
- 1 piece onion medium size
- ½ piece red bell pepper
- 300 ml sour cream
- 4 pieces egg yolks
- 5 pieces garlic cloves
- 1 tbsp sea salt
- 1 teaspoon peppercorn
- 2 pieces bay leafs
- 1 teaspoon ground pepper
- 1 piece lemon juice
Instructions
- We start with the chicken, which we cut into pieces. We will use all parts of the chicken, both the chest and thighs and the wings and back of the chicken.
- We wash the vegetables and peel them, but we leave them whole, so we will boil them.
- Place the chicken pieces in a soup pot. Add two bay leaves, a teaspoon of peppercorns and a tablespoon of salt, then fill the pot with cold water and bring to a boil.
- After it boils, reduces the heat to low and cook for about 15 minutes. With a whisk, gather the resulting foam from the soup to make it clearer. Add the whole vegetables, which we cook together with the meat, over medium to low heat. Boil everything for about 45 minutes, until the meat comes off the bones.
- After they have boiled, take out all the meat and vegetables in a bowl, and let them cool a bit. After the meat has cooled a bit, detach it from the bones and chopped it. From the vegetables, we will use only the carrots, which we cut into cubes.
- Prepare four egg yolks in a bowl. On top, grate or press, 4-5 cloves of garlic. Mix well until you get a paste, then add sour cream and mix well again. Stir further until you get a homogeneous cream.
- Bring the thickening cream to the soup temperature. For this, pour over the cream two ladles of hot soup and mix. Pour another 2-3 tablespoons of soup over the cream, mix, and pour everything back into the pot. Season with sea salt, to taste, a teaspoon of freshly ground pepper and lemon juice.
