Ingredients for Homemade Chicken Soup Recipe

Series Summary

Nothing satisfies like a bowl of hot homemade soup after a long, mind-numbing day at work. Food has, for some reason, the ability to give us more than simple nutrition: sometimes it can just make us feel better, feel like the world is just a little bit easier to deal with than it was twenty minutes ago. And homemade cuisine is especially important in a society that does everything on the go, including eating. Getting back into the kitchen can help remind us what fresh, hot meals taste like. We might find that we never go back to fast food again.

In these free cooking classes on video, learn how to make recipes for chicken soup and potato soup. Our expert will show you what ingredients and seasonings you need and how to prepare them, as well as the step-by-step process for putting these dishes together. When you’re finished, you should have two gourmet soups to use as a main course, side dish, or even a snack. Try these recipes out—your taste buds will thank you.

Video Transcript

"Hi on behalf of Expert Village my name is Andrea Spano and I'm going to show you a couple of soups today from my new book Not Just Desserts. The very first soup we are going to work on today is a tortellini soup with chicken and scallions. Our ingredients are chicken, scallions, tortellini. In this case I picked cheese tortellini you can pick meat tortellini they are beautiful, try color pasta tortellini with it has 3 different colors in it and that makes a very festive type of seasonal dish. But today we/you can actually use can chicken broth which is perfectly okay but I took the liberty of making my own chicken broth all I did was take breast meat chicken on the bone. I took 2 of these breast just like this and put them in 4-5 quarts of water, I boiled them with salt and pepper and just let that boil for about 30 minutes to 40 minutes and I made my own chicken broth. "