Chicken Soup (Nigella Lawson) Recipe

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Chicken Soup (Nigella Lawson)
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Ingredients
8
Count
Nutrition
95
Calories
Total time
200
Minutes
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Ingredients:

Directions:

  1. 1 recipe Matzo Balls, recipe follows
  2. Put all the ingredients, except the matzo balls, in a large stockpot, cover abundantly with water, and bring to a boil. Skim to remove all the gray scum that will float to the surface, then let cook at a simmer for about 3 hours. Just keep tasting: when the broth tastes golden and chickeny, it's ready. Remove the chicken and, if you like, leave the soup to get cold to you can remove any fat that collects on the surface. That way you can accrue some schmaltz, too.
  3. Reheat the stock, and serve it as a plain soup, or add a few carrot sticks - from about 2 carrots, say - and cook in the soup, adding some torn-up pieces of chicken to warm through at the end. I like to add freshly chopped parsley. (You can also cook the Matzo Balls in the soup as well while it's heating up again.)
  4. Matzo Balls:
  5. 1 egg
  6. 2 tablespoons schmaltz, margarine or butter, melted
  7. 3 tablespoons water or soup stock
  8. Scant 1/2 cup medium matzo meal
  9. Pinch salt and a grind of pepper
  10. Whisk the egg in a large-ish bowl, then whisk in the melted schmaltz (or whatever). Carry on whisking as you add the water or soup stock, the matzo meal and salt and pepper, and mix together into a rough paste; if it's too stiff to feel that it might be malleable later, add a little more water. Put in the refrigerator to chill for 1 hour (or leave overnight if you wish) then dip out small lumps of paste and roll them into walnut-sized balls between the palms of your hands. Cook the dumplings in boiling, salted water and simmer for about 40 minutes (you can just cook them directly in the soup, but I'll do anything to preserve its unstarchy clearness). They are cooked when they rise to the surface. Add to the soup, and ladle out generously into waiting bowls.
  11. Yield: makes about 20
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Nutrition Facts

Per ServingPer 100 g
Amount Per 1 Serving
Calories 95.49 Kcal (400 kJ)
Calories from fat 25.48 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 2.83g 4%
Cholesterol 133.34mg 44%
Sodium 1809.78mg 75%
Potassium 266.76mg 6%
Total Carbs 6.15g 2%
Sugars 2.63g 11%
Dietary Fiber 1.48g 6%
Protein 10.76g 22%
Vitamin C 11.1mg 19%
Vitamin A 2mg 67%
Iron 2.9mg 16%
Calcium 23.7mg 2%
Amount Per 100 g
Calories 80.2 Kcal (336 kJ)
Calories from fat 21.4 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 2.38g 4%
Cholesterol 111.98mg 44%
Sodium 1519.86mg 75%
Potassium 224.03mg 6%
Total Carbs 5.16g 2%
Sugars 2.2g 11%
Dietary Fiber 1.25g 6%
Protein 9.03g 22%
Vitamin C 9.4mg 19%
Vitamin A 1.7mg 67%
Iron 2.4mg 16%
Calcium 19.9mg 2%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
Find out how many calories should you eat.

Tastes

  • salty
  • savory
  • bitter
  • sweet
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Recipe Tags

Weightwatchers Points

  • 1.8
    Points
  • 2
    PointsPlus

Good Points

  • low fat,
  • saturated fat free

Bad Points

  • High in Sodium

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