Name: Chicken and Chestnut Soup
Ingredients: cooked (boiled tends to be best) and shelled chestnuts - try not to eat too many!; Chicken (i tend to use the bones of a cooked chicken I've bought plus some extra meat); onions; Chicken stock; any veg for extra bulk and flavour - carrots etc

Ingredients

cooked (boiled tends to be best) and shelled chestnuts – try not to eat too many!

Chicken (i tend to use the bones of a cooked chicken I’ve bought plus some extra meat)

onions

Chicken stock

any veg for extra bulk and flavour – carrots etc

Instructions

Step 1:

gently fry the onions in the bottom of a big pan

Step 2:

add the extra veg and cook untill a little soft

Step 3:

pour in the stock and add the chicken and chestnuts

Step 4:

simmer for an hour or so, stirring occaisionally

Step 5:

blend together

Step 6:

you should end up with a really thick broth – my favourite for the winter!