Easy As 1-2-3 Chicken Soup
When you’re a cook as gifted as my friend Sangeeta, you don’t need a long list of ingredients to stir up a sensation. You take 5 simple ingredients, give them 3 strokes of the spatula, a few seconds in the blender, and pour out the world’s steamiest chicken soup.
- 6 pieces skinned chicken with bones
- 1 tsp each garlic and ginger minced
- 2 onions finely chopped
- 1 tsp butter
- Salt and black pepper to taste
Fry the onions, ginger and garlic in butter
Slide in the chicken pieces, and break them lightly with your spatula
When the vegetables and chicken are nicely coated with butter, salt and pepper, add 21/2 cups water and cook until the chicken is tender.
Sieve the broth, reserving and shredding the chicken pieces. Blend the rest of the ingredients in a mixer.
Return to the pan of water, and cook the paste again. Add the shredded chicken. Stir in a little white vinegar before serving.