How to make Albanian Chicken Noodle Soup

Instructions

1. Make the broth

   • Use a soup pan to boil the chicken.
   • Add water until the chicken is completely covered.
   • To give it a better taste, combine with 2 celery stalks, 1 tbsp olive oil and ½ onion.
   • Let the pan boil on low heat for approximately 1 hour.

   Don’t wash the raw chicken first. USDA doesn’t recommend it, and the questions below say why.

   • You need
   • 1 whole chicken
   • water
   • 2 celery stalks
   • 1 tbsp olive oil
   • ½ onion

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2. Shred the chicken

   • After the chicken is fully cooked, separate the meat from the bones and shred it.
   • The shredded pieces should be the size of a bite.
   • Save the broth, as we are going to use it for the noodle soup later.
   • Do not forget to remove the celery from the broth, because we are going to add some new celery later.

3. Fry the vegetables

   • Using the same pan as before, fry the chopped onion until it gets a brown color.
   • If the onion gets burned, do not use it to continue further.
   • Later, add the chopped celery and the chopped carrots.

   • You need
   • 1 tbsp olive oil
   • ½ onion
   • 1 celery stalk
   • 5 carrots

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   Start a 5 min timer

   Brown, not burned.

4. Simmer in the broth

   • Approximately 5 minutes later, pour the broth that we made with the meat and the vegetables.
   • Cover the pan and boil it for another 10 minutes.
   • It is very important to use low heat, because it helps the ingredients to maintain their shape and their deliciousness.

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5. Add the noodles

   • When the carrots are boiled, add the noodles to the broth.
   • The noodles will not take more than 10 minutes to get cooked.
   • If we had added them before, they would have pretty much dissolved in the broth.

   • You need
   • ½ cup noodles

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6. Finish and serve

   • At the end, add the shredded chicken, salt & pepper.
   • Grill some bread to use it for dipping.

   • You need
   • salt and pepper
   • 6 slices bread