Cockaleekie Soup
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Cooking:
30 min.
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Servings per container:
12
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Ingredients for - Cockaleekie Soup

1. Water - 20 cups
2. Whole chicken - 1 (2 to 3 pound)
3. White onion, chopped - ½
4. Carrots, chopped - 2 large
5. Celery ribs, chopped - 2
6. Leeks, cut into 1-inch chunks, or more to taste - 6 large
7. Pearl barley - ⅔ cup
8. Celery seed - 1 teaspoon
9. Ground cloves - 1 teaspoon
10. Salt - 1 teaspoon
11. Ground black pepper - 1 teaspoon

How to cook deliciously - Cockaleekie Soup

1. Stage

Bring water to a boil in a large stock pot; cook chicken in the boiling water until fully cooked, about 1 hour. Remove chicken, keeping water in stock pot, and cool; discard skin, pull meat from bones, and put bones back into water for stock. Add onion, carrots, and celery to water and boil, about 1 hour.

2. Stage

Soak leeks in a bowl of water, about 10 minutes; drain.

3. Stage

Remove bones and vegetables from stock using a slotted spoon. Add chicken meat, leeks, barley, celery seed, cloves, salt, and black pepper to stock and simmer until barley is tender and flavors have blended, about 1 hour.