Polish Chicken Soup Recipes

ROSOL (POLISH CHICKEN SOUP)

Steps:

• Gather all your vegetables. Peel carrots, parsnip, and celery. Clean and trim your leek and wash your parsley. Heat up a skillet and add unpeeled onions in to get some burn marks.
• Place chicken pieces, beef bone, allspice, and bay leaves into a large pot.
• Add vegetables and fill the pot with water. Add vinegar and about 1-2 tablespoons of salt (you will finish seasoning once the broth is cooked)
• Set it on medium to low heat. Do not boil it! Let it simmer for two hours. A few times during the cooking, skim off anything that accumulates on the surface.
• Check for seasoning, add salt and pepper to your liking or chicken cubes, magi or Vegeta (see recipe notes).
• Boil the noodles separately, according to instructions. Once cooked, rinse with cold water to remove starch. Add noodles to a bowl.
• Remove a carrot and piece of chicken from the broth, cut it up and add it to your bowl. Ladle the broth into your bowl; first letting it pass through a meshed strainer. Add chopped parsley and serve. Enjoy!

TRADITIONAL POLISH CHICKEN SOUP ROSOL RECIPE

Steps:

• Wash the chicken and put it into the big pot (cut into smaller parts if necessary).
• Cover the chicken with cold water and bring to an almost-boil (the soup CANNOT start boiling otherwise it will lose its taste).
• If you notice white/dark foam gather at the top of the soup, collect it with a tablespoon and throw it away. It's called szumy and it's completely normal that you have it in your soup.
• When there is no more szumy left, peel or wash all the vegetables and put them into the rosol soup.
• Add herbs and spices (without salt and pepper).
• Let the soup simmer for 2-10 hours. The longer you cook, the better the soup will taste.
• When the rosol soup is ready, strain all the ingredients out of the broth.
• Add salt and pepper.
• Cook noodles (or other add-ons) separately and put them in the bowls.
• Pour the rosol soup into the bowls and sprinkle with chopped parsley.

POLISH CHICKEN SOUP

Steps:

• Cover the chicken with water in a stock pot and bring to a boil; reduce the heat and simmer, uncovered, for about 30 minutes, skimming the protein foam that forms.
• After the foam has subsided, add the bouillon, curry powder, allspice and bay leaf; simmer uncovered, for 2 hours.
• Remove the chicken and allow to cool.
• Remove the allspice and bay leaf with a slotted spoon and discard.
• Add the onion, carrots and celery to the stock and simmer for another hour or until the vegetables are tender.
• Once the chicken is cooled, remove skin and bones and discard; add the meat to the stock.
• Season to taste with salt and pepper.
• Add the parsley; stir.
• Serve with egg noodles.
• Note: I like to serve the noodles seperately and let each person ladle the soup over their noodles, for I find that if you mix the noodles into the soup, it eventually sucks up all the broth.

AUTHENTIC POLISH PICKLE SOUP (ZUPA ORGORKOWA)

Steps:

• Place chicken legs in a large pot and cover with water. Add cabbage, carrots, celery, onion, bay leaves, parsley, garlic, thyme, marjoram, salt, and black pepper.
• Cover pot and bring to a simmer over medium heat. Cook for about 1 hour. Transfer 1 cup chicken and vegetable broth to a saucepan. Heat broth and pickles over medium-low for about 15 minutes. Return pickle broth to large pot.
• Mix flour and sour cream in a bowl. Stir into soup; bring to a boil until thickened, about 5 minutes. Serve immediately.

POLISH CHICKEN AND DUMPLINGS

Steps:

• Place chicken, onion, and celery in a large pot, and then fill pot with water. Season with poultry seasoning, whole allspice, basil, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon pepper, and seasoning salt. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat, and simmer for approximately 2 hours, or until chicken is done.
• Remove chicken from broth, and strain broth to remove seasonings and any bone. Return broth to pan, stir in cream of chicken soup, and continue simmering. Set chicken aside to cool.
• In a medium bowl, stir together eggs, olive oil, 1 tablespoon salt, and 1 teaspoon pepper with 2 cups water. Gradually add flour, and stir until thick.
• Using a large spoon and knife, scoop a spoonful of the dough and cut small pieces into the broth. Repeat until all the dough has been used. Stir, cover, and simmer for about 15 minutes.
• Meanwhile, skin and debone the chicken. Cut the meat into small pieces, add to the broth, and heat through. Serve.

POLISH CHICKEN NOODLE SOUP

Steps:

• In a large saucepan, sauté celery, carrots, and parsnips in oil until softened.
• Stir in chicken broth and simmer until vegetables are tender.
• Add noodles, chicken, and gravy; heat through.
• Season with dill and salt and pepper to taste.