Recipe for Chicken Soup

This is a traditional soup of Bulgaria. It’s the poor man’s food because its good value for money.

Ingredients

1 onion, chopped small

1 tablespoon of oil (to fry onions, but may be spray oil.)

1 potato, diced small (into pieces a little bigger than the size of a pea).

1 carrot, diced.

1 garlic clove, crushed.

1 chicken leg (this will feed 2 people).  Take the skin off.

2 bay leaves.

1 tablespoon oregano.

1 tablespoon basil.

1 teaspoon chilli flakes (to taste).

2 stock cubes dissolved in water (about 300 ml per person)

Small amount of spaghetti

1 egg yolk

Milk

Vinaigrette for dressing on top of soup

1-2 teaspoons of vinegar

A good pinch of chilli flakes

One crushed garlic clove

Mix these three ingredients together.

Preparation

Sweat the onion in a pan with the oil (spray oil can be used)

Heat the water with the dissolved stock cubes then add it to the pan.

Add the skinless chicken leg (leave the bone in).

Add bay leaves, carrot, potato, oregano, basil, garlic and chilli flakes.

Break the spaghetti into 1 inch pieces and add this to the stock.

Boil for about 20 minutes, then take the chicken out and with 2 forks and shred the meat off the bone.  Be careful, its hot!

Then add the chicken meat back to the stock and boil for about 2 minutes more.

In a separate bowl, mix the egg yolk with a little milk to make a watery liquid.

Allow the stock to cool slightly then add the egg mixture to this.

When it’s cooling down, it’s the best time to eat.

Sprinkle the vinaigrette on the soup before eating.