Topic: the homemade chicken soup experiment (with base)

[Derek Dansak]

Thought my latest experiment should be posted as the results were promising.

initially made chicken soup as dad did when i was a nipper !

chicken carcus,   2 onion 2 celery  2 carrot   left whole

water to cover  salt  oil  knorr chicke stock cube

boil for an hour  then sieve  , so all that remains is soup

I then experimented adding 2 -3 tbs or more to a small portion of base  before making madras

the result was a very meaty savoury taste similar but not identical to illusive bir taste.
Next time i would make the soup more dilute and remove more fat from the soup.

my conclusion was that part of the missing 5%   has to be down to good chicken stock added to base.
Adding a little stock to the base during base prep would also seem the next step to try

[fried]

I really don't like the idea of adding stock cubes to a stock! although making a base with stock is definitely something I'm going to try soon.

[RubyDoo]

Likewise, what is the point of extracting all that goodness and flavour from the carcass and veg only to mask it off with a salty stock cube. Don't get me wrong, cubes are fine but not, imho, to add to a home made stock. One or tother for me. 

[Peripatetic Phil]

Yes and no.  I would not add a stock cube to home-made chicken stock, but I would, and do, as a matter of course, add a Knorr Chicken Stock Pot.

** Phil.

[StoneCut]

Hhhm, most stock cubes contain MSG and other flavour enhancers. IMHO, that might be a pretty good thing to try out.

[PaulP]

A lot of people (including me) think that MSG doesn't work well with BIR curries.

Check out the low salt Kallo stock cubes, no MSG:

http://www.planetorganic.com/kallo-organic-very-low-salt-chicken-stock-cubes.html

You are then free to add as much salt as you think necessary.

Paul

[Malc.]

Yes and no.  I would not add a stock cube to home-made chicken stock, but I would, and do, as a matter of course, add a Knorr Chicken Stock Pot.

Agreed, I find the Knorr Stock Pot range very good indeed.

[RubyDoo]

Yes and no.  I would not add a stock cube to home-made chicken stock, but I would, and do, as a matter of course, add a Knorr Chicken Stock Pot.

Agreed, I find the Knorr Stock Pot range very good indeed.

I agree but still do not see the point of adding to a home made stock which if done right should be bursting with flavour already.  if it needs a stock cube then you may as well save the effort and just use the cube.

[Malc.]

I agree but still do not see the point of adding to a home made stock which if done right should be bursting with flavour already.  if it needs a stock cube then you may as well save the effort and just use the cube.

I agree with that too, but from what I read of DD's OP was that his stock is not seasoned and does not contain a boquet garnie, so the stock cube would actually balance the finished stock in this case.

Just a thought.

[RubyDoo]

Ok.