Its getting colder now that Fall has arrived. I love a great soup but haven’t tried too many. Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup is one of favs but I wanted to spice it up and make it hot! I saw this recipe on SeriousEats.com and its suppose to be a schezuan type soup. I had to alter mine because I was missing a few ingredients. Also this is my first time using Leeks! I wanted to give them props however and go check out their site for other soups! Here is my version:
-In a big pot boil water for noodles while you also do steps below
-wash, trim off ends and thinly slice a leek
-thinly slice about 6 shiitake shrooms
-in saucepan cook leeks and shrooms in a tablespoon of EVOO until softened
-add 5cups of Chicken stock
-add 2 Tblsp of Soy Sauce
-you are supposed to add 1tblsp of Rice wine but I didn’t have any SOOOOO I used a half shot of VODKA & half shot of Rice Vinegar
– I didn’t have schezuan pepper so I mix together a tsp of cayenne pepper and a Tblsp of regular black pepper and add to saucepan
-I also threw in a couple shakes of Jamaica Me Crazy Pepper(you don’t need to tho)
-throw in a cinnemon stick
-add a couple turns of fresh ground sea salt
-Bring to boil and then reduce and simmer for about 8 min
-cook desired noodles (I used egg noodles)
-shread a rotisserie chicken(easy buy at the store)
-after noodles are al dente, drain and add to saucepan of Chicken Broth
-add chicken and simmer for about 5min.
You have Spicy Hot Chicken Noodle soup! Yippppeeeeee! It was really good
*** you can control the heat with the cayenne pepper***
