Filipino Chicken Soup Recipes

CHICKEN NOODLE SOUP (SOPAS)

Steps:

• Boil chicken breast in water with a little salt and pepper. Once cooked, remove from the stock and shred meat into smaller pieces using two forks.
• In a pot, sauté garlic and onion in butter until tender. Add the chicken meat and noodles and cook for 5 minutes stirring from time to time to avoid burning the noodles.
• Add the chicken stock to the pot and cover. Once it starts to boil add carrots, bell pepper, and celery and cover again.
• Once the noodle is cooked al dente, add the milk and sausages. Add more salt and pepper if needed. Let it simmer for a few more minutes until the noodles are completely cooked and soup starts to thicken. Add water or milk if soup becomes too thick.
• Add cabbage before turning off the stove and cover. Let the cabbage cook for at least 5 minutes from the residual heat. Transfer to serving bowls.

FILIPINO CHICKEN SOPAS

Steps:

• Combine water and onion in a pot and bring to a boil. Add chicken, garlic powder, and onion powder. Bring back to a boil and reduce heat to medium-low. Simmer broth until chicken thighs are tender, about 30 minutes.
• Remove chicken and add carrots to the broth. Stir in 2 tablespoons fish sauce, chicken bouillon, and black pepper.
• Shred chicken meat and discard bones; return meat to the broth and simmer until carrots are tender, about 10 minutes. Add macaroni; cook until tender, about 20 minutes, adding more water if needed. Stir in evaporated milk and butter; simmer until butter is melted. Add more fish sauce and season with salt and pepper to taste. Pour soup into serving bowls.

ARROZ CALDO (FILIPINO CHICKEN AND RICE SOUP) RECIPE

Steps:

• Place 1/2 cup oil and 2/3 of the garlic in a small saucepan over medium heat. Cook, stirring occasionally, until garlic turns light golden brown. Transfer garlic to fine-mesh strainer and drain. Spread garlic out on a paper towel-lined plate and set aside.
• In a large Dutch oven or soup pot, heat remaining 3 tablespoons oil over medium-high heat until shimmering. Add chicken and cook, stirring occasionally, until browned, about 6 minutes. Add onion and cook, stirring and scraping, until onions soften and release their liquid, about 3 minutes. Stir in ginger and remaining garlic and cook until onions begin to brown, about 3 minutes. Stir in fish sauce and pepper and cook for 1 minute. Add rice and stir until well coated.
• Stir in chicken stock, running spoon along bottom of Dutch oven to release any browned bits. Bring to a boil, then reduce to a simmer, cover, and cook until rice is completely tender and stock has thickened, about 30 minutes. Stir in lime or calamansi juice and season with salt and pepper to taste.
• Ladle arroz caldo into bowls. Top with scallions, fried garlic, and egg slices, if using. Serve immediately with additional lime or calamansi wedges on the side.

TINOLA (FILIPINO GINGER-GARLIC CHICKEN SOUP)

Steps:

• Heat oil in a large pot over medium heat. Add onion, ginger and garlic; cook, stirring, until the onion starts to turn translucent, about 3 minutes. Add chicken and broth; cook, stirring, until the chicken is just cooked through, about 5 minutes. Add papaya (or chayote), malunggay (or bok choy), fish sauce, salt and pepper; continue simmering until the vegetables are tender and the flavors have melded, about 5 minutes more.

CHICKEN SOUP (PHILIPPINE STYLE)

Steps:

• Cut the whole chicken in pieces. This will help it to cook faster! Boil chicken until cooked, then take them out and place them in a large bowl to cool. SAVE THE CHICKEN STOCK! (You will need this!)
• As you're waiting for the chicken to cool down, start preping your veggies.
• Slice the carrots in 3, dice the celery, dice the onion, and shred the cabbage. Set these all aside.
• Now that the chicken is cooled down, shred it.
• In a large stock pot, place 3/4 of a stick of butter into the pot to melt. Add the onions and cook until transparent, and then add the chicken and garlic powder to saute. When the chicken is all nice and aromatic with the onion and garlic --
• POUR the stock into the pot. (I told you that you would need this!).
• When it comes to a boil, add the carrots, celery, cabbage, macaroni (or shells) and chicken bullion. Mix it good!
• Add the remaining butter to the soup. It will look like OIL, but it is not. This brings out the flavor of the soup!
• Let simmer and when the macaroni (or shells) are all done, you're ready to eat it!
• We always add CARNATION EVAPORATED MILK for a creamer soup, but it's all up to you. Most people don't like to do that becuase they THINK it will spoil. It's NOT fresh milk! So you can add it!
• We usually serve this with GARLIC BREAD topped with Parmesan cheese!
• This will become a favorite in your house too!

FILIPINO CHICKEN SOUP WITH COCONUT RICE

Steps:

• Place a heavy-bottomed pot over medium-high heat. Add olive oil to coat the bottom of the pot. Sprinkle the chicken on both sides with salt and pepper and add to the pot, skin-side down. Cook until deeply golden brown, 3 to 5 minutes per side, then mix in the garlic, ginger, coriander, turmeric and cayenne. Briefly saute, then add 8 cups chicken stock. Bring to a simmer, then cook until the chicken is cooked through, 20 to 30 minutes. Remove from the heat and strain, reserving the chicken. When the chicken is cool enough to handle, pull the meat and discard the skin and bones. Add back to the broth along with the fish sauce and bok choy. Keep warm.
• Place a medium saucepan over medium-high heat. Add the jasmine rice and remaining 2 cups chicken stock and season with salt and pepper. Bring to a strong simmer, then reduce the heat to low, cover and cook until the rice is tender, about 15 minutes. Remove from the heat and let stand for 5 minutes.
• Meanwhile, scrape the coconut cream off the top of the coconut milk. (If there is no separation, refrigerate the can of coconut milk for 1 hour; save the remaining coconut milk for another use.) Fold the coconut cream into the rice, then place quenelles (small oblong dollops) of rice in serving bowls.
• Garnish the rice with the sliced scallions, chiles and torn Thai basil. Ladle the chicken around the rice along with the broth. Serve with squeezes of lime.

CHICKEN AND CHAYOTE SOUP

Steps:

• Cut up chicken into serving size pieces.
• Heat oil in a large pot or Dutch oven. Brown chicken, ginger and garlic. Be careful not to burn garlic.
• Add broth, salt, and pepper.
• Cover; simmer for 2-1/2 hours or until chicken is tender.
• Peel chayote and remove seed. Cut chayote into one inch cubes. Add chayote to pot and cook until chayote is fork tender. (10-15 minutes).
• Serve over hot rice in a bowl. Makes six servings.
• Fish sauce can be substituted for salt or 2 green papayas can be substituted for chayote.