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Marmaduke Bannerworth

17th November, 2007. 5:41 pm. Soup day...

I just made a big potfull of purple chicken soup. It's mellowing out now and should be perfect in about 2 hours. I upped the lemon and lowered the salt and I think I've got a really healthy soup on my hands here.

For those that care, here's the recipe:
1 large package of drumsticks and thighs
3 large potatoes
5 bulbs garlic
3 large onions
1/2 lb turtle beans (this is where the purple comes from)
1/2 lb split green peas
1/2 lb navy beans
4 tsp salt
3 tsp woman scorned
3 tsp louisiana hot sauce
500ml lemon juice
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp ginger
3 tsp dill weed
3 tsp red chilli flakes
3 tsp oregano
4 large cans mushrooms
10g peppercorns
1 tsp lard

The trick to this is to first boil the chicken in the pot with the peppercorns, then pull all the skin off the chicken and discard it, deflesh the chicken into the pot and discard the bones. Then add the potatoes, onions, and garlic. Then add everything else. It's light on the salt, but that's for health reasons - adding as much as a double dose of salt will improve the flavour. If you're going to add salt, go lighter on the lemon juice. 500ml is a lot, but it's filling the salt void. 300ml is more appropriate if the soup is saltier.

Total volume of this soup should be between 12 and 16 litres so make sure you're preparing it in at least a 4 gallon stock pot.

The soup is savoury, tangy and with a mild-medium spice.

Make sure to add the peppercorns while the broth is brewing, as they need to cook for a very long time to become palatable ... the longer they cook the milder they will be to eat and the more of their falvour will disperse throughout the soup.

Potatoes are chopped into thumb sized chunks or smaller, onions are diced and garlics are chopped into pencil-eraser sized chunks. The chicken should be left fairly chunky as cooking for a long time will break it up as it continues to cook. You want long chicken-strands to persist after this happens.

Now I just wish there was somebody here to actually eat my soup.

Current mood: lonely.

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17th November, 2007. 6:49 pm. It's a good soup

In retrospect, I'm calling it medium-spicy. It really can't be called mild.

Also, as a point of clarity, the turtle beans leave the chicken purple, not the whole soup.

Current mood: recumbent.

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