Easy Chicken and Ginger Soup With Rice Cakes, Chives, and Quick-Pickled Garlic

Name: Easy Chicken and Ginger Soup With Rice Cakes, Chives, and Quick-Pickled Garlic
Prep time: 2 h
Cook time: 2 h
Total time: 2 h
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 118 milliliters yellow, Chines, or regular chives, cut into 2-inch pieces (see note above); 59 milliliters picked fresh cilantro leaves and fine stems; 4 servings Kosher salt; 946 milliliters roughly chopped napa cabbage; 237 milliliters Korean rice cakes (dduk); 4 scallions, pale greens and whites finely sliced, dark greens kept whole; 2 kilograms whole chicken, cut into 10 serving pieces, back and neck reserved (see note above); 4 cloves whole cloves garlic, smashed; 1 small yellow onion, peeled and roughly chopped

You can never have too many main course recipes, so give Easy Chicken and Ginger Soup With Rice Cakes, Chives, and Quick-Pickled Garlic a try. This recipe serves 4. Watching your figure? This gluten free and dairy free recipe has 501 calories, 42g of protein, and 33g of fat per serving. It will be a hit at your Autumn event. Head to the store and pick up regular chives, chicken, scallions, and a few other things to make it today.

Instructions

Place chicken, roughly sliced ginger, garlic, onion, and scallion greens in a large pot. Cover with cold water by 2-inches. Bring to a boil over high heat, reduce to a simmer, and cook, skimming scum and fat from surface regularly, until chicken breast pieces are cooked through, about 15 minutes.

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Green Onions

Chicken Breast

Whole Chicken

Garlic

Ginger

Onion

Water

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Transfer breast pieces to a small bowl, cover, and set aside. Continue cooking broth until leg pieces are fall-apart tender, about 1 hour longer.

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Broth

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Bowl

Remove leg pieces and add to bowl with breasts. Strain broth through a fine mesh strainer, discard solids, and return broth to a large pot (you should have about 2 quarts of broth)

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Broth

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Season broth to taste with salt. When chicken is cool enough to handle, roughly shred meat with fingers, discard bones, and return meat to pot.

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Meat

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Salt

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Add cabbage and rice cakes. Bring to a simmer and cook, stirring occasionally, until rice cakes are cooked through, about 8 minutes. Stir in julienned ginger, sliced scallion whites, chives, and cilantro. Ladle into warmed serving bowl and serve immediately, passing pickled garlic and chilies at the table.

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Pickled Garlic

Rice Cakes