Vegetable Stew "Dragon Festival"

Prep: 20min
| Servings: 4 | Cook: 1h 15min
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A hearty vegetable stew with chicken and pasta that delivers the daily niacin requirement. The B-vitamin is involved in the breakdown and synthesis of fats, proteins, and carbohydrates.

Ingredients

  • 1 kg small soup chicken (1 small soup chicken)
  • Salt
  • 1 bundle mirepoix vegetables
  • 250 g small cauliflower (0.5 small cauliflower)
  • 100 g carrots (1 carrot)
  • 150 g alphabet pasta
  • 150 g peas (frozen)
  • 0.5 small lemon
  • Pepper
  • 1 bundle parsley

Instructions

  1. 1.

    Wash the soup chicken, pat dry and split in half with a large knife or poultry scissors. Bring 1.7 L lightly salted water to a boil in a large pot.

  2. 2.

    Clean, wash, and roughly chop the mirepoix vegetables. Add the chicken halves to the pot, cover, and simmer for 1 hour over medium heat.

  3. 3.

    Meanwhile, clean the cauliflower half, cut into small florets, and wash. Peel and dice the carrot.

  4. 4.

    Remove the soup chicken with a slotted spoon from the pot and let it cool. Strain the broth through a fine sieve into a second pot and bring to a boil.

  5. 5.

    Add the cauliflower florets and carrot cubes, simmer for 15 minutes; add the pasta after 5 minutes, then peas after 10 minutes.

  6. 6.

    While this cooks, remove the skin from the chicken, separate the meat from the bones, and cut into small pieces.

  7. 7.

    Squeeze half a lemon. Add the meat and 1 tablespoon of lemon juice to the soup. Season with salt and pepper, bring back to a boil. Wash parsley, shake dry, pluck leaves, chop, and sprinkle over the stew.