Canja ( brazilian style chicken soup)

1 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
1 Stewing chicken
8 cups Water
2 Onions
1 Clove garlic
2 Carrots; finely diced
1 cup Long grain rice
1 Tomato; peeled , seeded and diced
1 tablespoon Parsley leaves
1 tablespoon Chopped cilantro or chopped mint
Freshly ground pepper
Salt
Chicken gizzard

Directions

Recipe By : Miriam Podcameni Posvolsky This is a very simple but tasty soup, which is sure to keep you ,in the Northern Hemisphere, warm this winter.

1. Cut chicken into 4 pieces

2. Wash chicken well with salt and lemon 3. Rinse, and season with salt and pepper 4. Place chicken,gizzard, onions, carrots and water in a stockpot and simmer 2 hours

5. Add the garlic ( peeled whole)tomato, salt, pepper and cook another 30 minutes or until chicken is very tender.

6. Remove bones and skin,and shred chicken .

7. Return shredded chicken to pot, add the rice and cook until rice is very soft, almost creamy. Stir in parsley and cilantro.Check seasonings 8.Boil a few minutes and serve very hot.

Note: I like to add a tiny pinch of curry to this soup Miriam Posted to TNT - Prodigy's Recipe Exchange Newsletter by Leon & Miriam Posvolsky <miriamp@...> on Nov 25, 1997

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