Recipe#12910

Title: Chicken Soup

From: "Lise Houle" jldhoule@vianet.on.ca 
 Newsgroups: rec.food.recipes 
 Subject: Quick Simple Soup 
 Date: 2 Nov 1997 07:36:48 -0700 
 Message-ID: <199710310525.AAA29251@vianet.on.ca> 

14 cups of water
 10-14 tbsp chicken soup base
 1 or 2 chicken breasts    
 1 small onion (optional)
 1/4 cup rice
 1/4 cup barley
 1/4 cup alphabet pasta ones
 1-2 potatoes cut into bite-size cubes
 19 oz can tomatoes
 Fill pot (I use the 5 qt. one) with water and get it boiling. While
 waiting for the water to boil, I microwave a chicken breast until
 cooked.
 Cube the chicken and place in water. Then add the chicken soup
 base. This must go according to your taste. I like it to just start
 looking the color of chicken bouillon and still not too salty. Then
 add the rice, barley, alphabets, potatoes and tomatoes.  Let it
 simmer gently for about 1/2 hr.  I don't put any salt or pepper or
 spices. We add that when we eat it.
 If you put more rice, barley or alphabets than is called for, it
 will get too thick. Still good,  but more like eating a bowl of 
 macaroni.
 Freezes well.