PacRakMG _ It's soooooooooo easy to make. I just salt & pepper the 2 chicken breasts & pop them into the frypan with a teeny bit of oil. While that is in, I dice up a few rashers of bacon, a spanish onion & 2 leeks. When it's time to flip the chicken, I add those things into the pan. The fat that the bacon lets off then coats my chicken to stop it sticking to the pan (KWIM?). So while that is all browning up in the pan, I add maybe 2L of water, some chicken stock powder, 2 grated carrots, one grated potato & 1 grated zucchini to a soup pot & turn it up high. Add the bacon, leek & spanish onion to the soup pot when that is done & then slice up the chicken when it's cooked right though. I find the chicken is so much nicer when I pre-cook it rather than adding it into the soup pot raw. & then just boil away for an hour or so - until you can't stand the smell anymore & want to eat it!!! bahahaha. I usually add a tin of creamed corn in right at the end - but that's hard to find here in Qingdao. I did find a tin, but then I don't have a can opener yet! Dammit! lol.
It's so easy & so delicious & my kids absoluetly love it. Jess doesn't eat potato (apparently), but being that all the veg is grated, the only real thing they see is chicken & bacon. Same with leek & zucchini, they would be like 'eeewww we don't like that' but because it's grated, it's there, but it's hidden. Works beautifully!
Hope you enjoy it, but it's Summer for you, so soup might not hit the 'spot'. lol.
Oh & I also managed to find wholemeal bread to go with the soup last night - perfect!!!
So my kids are on school holidays from now, this is the time when I struggle & end up eating all the little snacks they do. Stay strong Jayne, stay strong!!!
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