Chicken Soup Recipe

So being sick, the first thing that comes to mind to eat is Congee. But I personally like my congee thick so...next thing that comes to mind to eat is chicken soup. Usually I am prepped with some chicken bones leftover from deboning whole chickens (cause its cheaper) but its the beginning of the school year. No Chicken Bones. So no Chicken Stock. Cry.

This is my last minute recipe for Chicken soup for the sick!


Ingredients:
1/2 Cabbage
1/2 Cup of Diced Carrots (put more if you want your soup sweeter)
1 Onion
1 Box of Mushrooms (or as much as you like)
2 Bay leaves
2 tsp of Parsley
2 Chicken Breast
Seasonings for Chicken: Sesame Oil, Salt, Garlic Powder, Sugar, Soya Sauce, Corn Starch, Vegetable Oil

1) Dice up all the Veggies, rinse then set aside to drain.
2) Cube Chicken Breast, then bash with knife for homemade mincing. This makes it possible to make chicken meat balls, yet still have textures and chunks of meat so you know its chicken.
3) Add in seasoning for the chicken. The Corn Starch will help the meat stick together.
4) Heat up the pot with some oil, saute onions to sweat them.
5) Add in remainder of Veggies and cook for 3 mins.
6) Top off the pot with water so that it is at least 2 inches above the top.
7) Simmer for 15 mins, with the 2 Bay leaves.
8) Roll chicken into little meat balls and drop them into the soup.
9) Cook for another 10 mins.
10) Finish off with a little parsley on top.

I just realized....I forgot the parsley in the pic!

In case you are curious, if you are better prepared, replace water with the chicken stock, makes it yummier. Then take the breast and you can simply shred it to make little strings of meat. For the stock:
1) Bring to bowl water with chicken bones. Add in Bay leaves here (then you can omit it from step 7) If you want you can put in other veggies. I usually don't since the soup itself has a ton and to me, its a waste if you can't eat it.
2) Simmer for 30 mins.
3) Strain out all the bones/veggies/leaves
4) Skim the fat off the top. Or if you have a Gravy separator, that works too!

Stock is ready!