As I looked through the recipes for Peru I wasn’t noticing something that was jumping out at me, then I saw Peruvian Chicken Soup, and that looked good. Very good, especially on that cold January morning as I looked out at a layer of frost while the rest of the country was looking at 2 feet of snow.
Supplies for Easy Chicken Soup:
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3-4 chicken breasts, 2 Chicken Broth,32-Ounce
How to make easy chicken soup
1. Set your poor over-worked kids to peeling the potatoes, one a kid in my case. (We like this OXO Good Grips Swivel Peeler
2. Meanwhile chop up the chicken and grill it (picture turned out blurry, waaaahh).
3. While chicken is grilling chop up potatoes.
4. Start simmering the chicken broth, add the potatoes, and rotel. When the potatoes are starting to get soft add the chicken. If you are adding rice, now would be the time.
* Jeff and I got into a discussion about the rice after the fact, he would leave out the rice and just do the potatoes, I would put in the rice and leave out the potatoes, which reveals our various feelings on potato vs. rice, more than the meal. We discovered we had too much “stuff” not enough broth, so it was a big discussion how to best rectify this.
5. Add in chicken a few minutes before eating.
In the end the kids enjoyed it, but thought it might be a little spicy at times. We got a lot of these faces as it was cooking. On the other hand Jeff and I really enjoyed it, and were thinking of different ways to make it again, only BETTER, BIGGER, okay not really bigger. But, we were thinking some HEB chicken fajita meat would be wonderful in this.
We’re traveling around the world in 12 Dishes. Each month we make a dish, learn about the country, and maybe, just maybe make a craft……
This month was not the month for the craft or extra lessons, every time I set out to work on that, someone got sick, or hurt, or something else.
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We love Peruvian food, so we will have to try this one. We try to have soup once a week, too, so this will be great for us.
I’d love to have soup once a week, but the kids aren’t a big fan of it.
This soup sounds quite delightful- and my kiddos would ALSO make faces if it was in any way spicy!
It just cracked me up so much because it really wasn’t all that spicy.
How interesting – our dish also had a mixture of rice and potatoes. It must be a Peruvian “thing”. And we also had a bit of a problem with spice levels. I want to try this chicken soup recipe using your “lessons learned”.
I saw that in your post, made me wonder if that’s a “thing” they have.
How about just cooking the chicken in water/broth instead of taking the step to grill it…if you have the time?
Rice vs. potatoes… 🙂 Us too.
Yes, I’d think you could. Grilling it, just seemed to change the texture slightly, but before I read the instructions I’d started by boiling it.
Glad to see it all went well this month for the recipe, also glad to see Jeff in the mix, love that it was a whole family affair 🙂 The recipe sounds yummy too. Thanks for participating again.