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Chicken Soup

1 - 3 to 5 pound chicken, quartered
12 cups of water
3 carrots
1 stalk celery
1 to 2 parsnips
1 onion
1 Tbsp. Salt
¼ tsp. Pepper

Optional:
1 parsley root
1 clove garlic
Several sprigs of fresh dill
1 sweet potato
1 zucchini

Clean chicken and remove excess fat. Fill an 8-quart pot with the 12 cups of water. Bring to a boil. Place chicken and vegetables in pot. Add salt and pepper. If using optional ingredients, chop parsley root; peel garlic, leaving it whole, pierce with toothpick in order to remove easily. Add both to soup with the dill. Dice the sweet potato, slice zucchini and add to soup.

Simmer covered for about 2 hours. Remove garlic. Serve hot.

NOTE: To remove excess fat, prepare soup in advance and refrigerate for several hours or overnight. Fat will congeal on top. Remove, and heat soup before serving.

USE: 8-quart pot
Yields: 8 to 10 servings

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Note: The laws of Shabbat rest mandate that all cooking and baking be done before Shabbat, and regulate food preparation done on Shabbat in other ways as well. For more information, see Food Preparation on Shabbat.

Excerpted from Spice and Spirit, The Complete Kosher Jewish Cookbook, published by Lubavitch Women's Cookbook Publications

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Posted By susan, huston, USA

Posted: Sep 28, 2011

Chicken soup not!!!!

This is not russian that's for sure!!!

Posted By Anna, Los angeles, Ca

Posted: Dec 14, 2010

chicken soup

This looks fabulous, I love a good chicken soup! Nice thanks

Posted By Anonymous, manila, philippines

Posted: Sep 22, 2010

'Russian chicken soup'

In response to Anonymous, I would like to point out that nowhere in the recipe were string beans mentioned. And since Russia occupied (until 20 years ago) an area of 8,604.000 sq. miles from longitude 22 degrees E. by Baltic sea and Ukraine to 170 degrees W by Bering Sea near Alaska and latitudes from 82 degrees N in the Arctic Circle as far south as 38 degrees N by the South Caspian Sea and Afghanistan ....(same latitude as N. Carolina, Arkansas and Oklahoma)...just maybe in all that area you might find a sweet potato....
On the other hand, just maybe some Russian Jews who came to the USA decided they wanted to sweeten up their chicken soup for the holidays...along with honey cake, apples and honey and raisins in their challah. Try it, you might like it. Hag Sameach

Posted By Bubbie, Gainesville, FL

Posted: Sep 12, 2009

russian recepies: chicken soup

where in russia could you find a sweet potato? string bean?
why call a recipe something it is not.
it is not a chicken soup it is a shame for a chicken soup, sadly.
Speaking with knowledge, a jew from USSR

Posted By Anonymous, new york, USA

Posted: Sep 29, 2008

chicken soup

some people remove all fat beforehand and the flavor suffers!!

Posted By Anonymous

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