Recipe - Chicken And Noodles

1 4lb chicken
Water
2 teaspoon Salt
Pepper to taste
1 teaspoon Parsley flakes
1 teaspoon Onion flakes
Noodles

From: Julie Sterchi sterchi@WABASH.NET

Date: Sun, 11 Aug 1996 15:25:15 0700
Place chicken in a large pot or dutch oven. (You can cut up the chicken if
it fits better.) Add water to cover. Add seasonings. (I put the parsley
and onion flakes in a coffeemaker filter, tie it closed, and throw it in,
because my family thinks they don't like these. When the chicken's tender,
I discard the bag.) Bring the water to a boil, turn down heat to the point
that the water will barely boil with the lid on loosely. Cook 1 One half or 2
hours, until chicken is fork tender. Add water during this time if too much
of the chicken becomes uncovered. Remove chicken from broth, let cook till
you can handle it, then skin the chicken and tear off the meat. Taste broth
and adjust seasoning, then bring broth back to a rolling boil and add egg
noodles. Every basic cookbook has a recipe for these if you want to make
them from scratch or I'll email you mine if you want, but in the frozen
food section of the grocery store, there are bags of frozen egg noodles
that are wonderful. You just throw them in still frozen. Add enough noodles
to almost fill the water space. Don't pack them in, but noodles don't get 2
or 3 times as big when cooked like rice and pasta does. I consider that
I've filled the water 2/3 full. Boil for about 5 minutes, then turn the
heat back down so noodles simmer more than boil. The secret to really good
noodles is to cook them alot longer than directions usually say. I usually
cook fromscratch noodles or the frozen ones about 45 minutes to 1 hour.
(Even dry bagged noodles from the shelf are pretty good if you cook them
about 40 minutes instead of the 68 min. the package says.) Add the torn
chicken meat back into the broth for the last 15 minutes to heat through.

EATL Digest 10 August 96

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