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Slow cooker chicken soup served in a bowl

Slow cooker chicken soup

Name: Slow cooker chicken soup
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 8 h
Total time: 8 h 15 min
Yield: Serves 6-8
Ingredients: 1 onion finely chopped; 2 celery sticks, finely chopped; 2 carrots chopped into 1.5cm pieces; 2 leeks halved and sliced; 1 bay leaf and 3 thyme sprigs, tied together; 1 whole medium chicken (about 1.4kg); 2l chicken stock; 1 lemon juiced; ½ small bunch of dill or parsley, finely chopped; crusty bread to serve (optional)

Esther Clark

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Serves 6-8

Easy

Prep: 15 mins

Cook: 6 hrs - 8 hrs

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Pop the ingredients for this chicken soup into the slow cooker in the morning, and it will be ready by dinner time. Add noodles at the end, if you like

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Ingredients

Nutrition

Units:

MetricUS

1 onion

finely chopped
2 celery

sticks, finely chopped
2 carrots

chopped into 1.5cm pieces
2 leeks

halved and sliced
1 bay leaf

and 3 thyme sprigs, tied together
1 whole medium chicken

(about 1.4kg)
2l chicken stock
1 lemon

juiced
½ small bunch of dill

or parsley, finely chopped
crusty bread

to serve (optional)

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Nutrition: Per serving (8)

kcal352
fat21g
saturates6g
carbs4g
sugars3g
fibre3g
protein35g
salt1.6g

Method

step 1

Set your slow cooker to low. Tip in the onion, celery, carrots and leeks and nestle in the bunch of herbs. Sit the chicken on top of the veg and pour over the stock. Cook for 6-8 hours.
step 2

Remove the chicken from the slow cooker and transfer to a board. Shred the meat from the bones using two forks, then return the meat to the slow cooker, discarding the bones. Season to taste and stir through the lemon juice.
step 3

Remove and discard the bunch of herbs. Ladle the soup into bowls and top with the dill or parsley. Serve with crusty bread, if you like.

RECIPE TIPS

ADD NOODLES, IF YOU LIKE

Add spaghetti broken into short lengths or noodles to the soup 1 hr before the end of cooking, if you like.

EASY EGG-DROP NOODLE SOUP

Bring any leftover chicken soup up to a simmer, season with soy sauce and add some shredded ginger, if you have any. Stir in 1 beaten egg. Simmer for a minute until set in strands, then add cooked noodles.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, May 2020

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