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Sherry Chicken Soup

Ingredients
  

Chicken for soup

  • 3 chicken breasts skin-on, bone-in (2½ to 3 pounds total)
  • olive oil
  • Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper

Soup

  • 6 tablespoons butter
  • 3 chopped leeks white and light green parts
  • About 5 carrots peeled and diced
  • 3 cloves garlic minced
  • ¼ cup Wondra flour
  • ¾ cup cream sherry divided
  • 7 cups good chicken stock homemade is best!
  • 2 x3-inch piece of Italian Parmesan rind
  • ¼ cup minced fresh parsley for garnish

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 425
  • Drizzle olive oil on chicken, sprinkle with salt/pepper and roast on a foil lined pan until reaches internal temp of 165.
  • Remove skin and cut chicken into bite size cubes for the soup.

Soup

  • In a dutch oven or pot, melt butter over medium.
  • Add the leeks and carrots, and sauté over medium-high heat.
  • Stir a bit here and there for 10 minutes.
  • Leeks should be tender, not brown.
  • Add garlic for one minute.
  • Sprinkle on the Wondra flour and cook, stirring constantly, for 2 more minutes.
  • Add ½ cup of the sherry, the chicken stock, 4 teaspoons salt, 1½ teaspoons pepper, and the Parmesan rind.
  • Bring this up to a boil.
  • Then lower the heat and simmer, partially covered, for 20 minutes.
  • Add the chicken and heat for 5 minutes in the soup.
  • Remove from the heat and discard the rind.
  • Add the remaining ¼ cup sherry and the parsley.
  • Serve! Mmmm!