Chicken Soup

Nothing is better than real good homemade chicken soup :) and today I did just that, made myself some good chicken soup :))

Everyone cook soup but soup comes in many consistency when you ask some individuals, but my thing is a soup can not be a soup without dumplings :)) that is the best ingredient of the soup :)

As I was saying; some individuals do broth and call it soup which it is not, broth is just water in a pan with ingredients cook a few minutes to get a taste.

Soup on the other hand is sweet, mellow, creamy, tasty, it's filled with ingredients and that is boiled down to a semi-thick consistency that makes it not only look but taste like soup.

I did chicken soup and the ingredients I used were vegetable ground provisions and chicken, these ingredients gave me five servings.

Ingredients for Soup...

Half of a chicken is cut into small pieces.

Four English Potatoes.

1 Medium Sweet Potatoe.

Half Cup of Split Peas.

1/2 lb of Pumpkin.

8 Medium Okras Slice.

1 Onion Slice.

1 Sweet Pepper Slice.

5 Garlic Pods finely dice.

Marjoram

Basil.

Chives.

Thyme.

Salt to taste.

For the Dumplings.

Whole Wheat or all-purpose flour can be used.

1/2 Cup of flour.

Pinch of salt

1/4 teaspoon of baking powder.

1/4 teaspoon of cinnamon.

1/4 teaspoon of spice.

1Tsp of sugar.

Water to mix.

Mix all ingredients in a bowl add water to get dough, make sure that the dough is not too wet if it just adds a bit of flour to dry it out to maintain the thick dough texture.

You can the dumplings however you want, I like to do little dumpling balls as it's easier to handle in the soup as to eat, and presentation-wise they look good :)

For the soup, all ingredients are added to a saucepan with medium water, place on the heat, and let it cook for 15 minutes.

 After 15 minutes the soup's consistency should be a semi-thick fusion consisting of all the ingredients which by now you will see soften and break away to make up the soup.

At this stage, you can add the dumplings and leave them to cook for another 10 minutes that will allow the dumplings to cook through and fuse with the ingredient's taste.

Serve Hot.