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Spanish Chicken and Rice Soup

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TOTAL TIME: 2 hr 5 min
Prep: 20 min
Inactive Prep: 45 min
Cook: 1 hr
 
YIELD: 4 servings
LEVEL: Easy

ingredients

  • 1 large Spanish yellow onion, chopped
  • 2 carrots, peeled and chopped
  • Few ribs celery from the heart, chopped
  • 1 red chile pepper, thinly sliced
  • 4 cloves garlic, chopped or very thinly sliced
  • 1/4 to 1/3 cup diced piquillo pepper or drained pimiento peppers
  • Salt and freshly ground black pepper
  • Pinch saffron threads (about 20)
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons smoked sweet or sweet paprika
  • 1 (15-ounce) can fire-roasted diced or crushed tomatoes or 1 (15-ounce) can diced tomatoes with green chilies
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Directions

Place the butter in a small pot over medium heat. Melt the butter and toast the pasta 2 to 3 minutes or until golden in color, add the rice and stir to coat. Add 1 cup stock to the pot and bring the mixture to a bubble, reduce the heat to low, cover the pot and cook 15 minutes. Stir in parsley; turn off the heat and cover. Let stand to cool. Fluff the rice with a fork then place in container and store in the refrigerator.

Meanwhile, place the rinsed trimmed chicken pieces in a shallow pan with the onion and bay leaves and cover with just enough water to come up to the top of the chicken, bring the mixture to a boil and reduce the heat to a simmer and gently poach to cook through, about 12 to 15 minutes. Place the chicken in a bowl and shred the meat with 2 forks. Reserve the stock.

While the chicken poaches start the soup by heating a Dutch oven over medium-high heat with a turn of the pan extra-virgin olive oil, add the chorizo and brown a couple of minutes. Add the onions, carrot, celery, chile, garlic, and piquillos to the pot and season with a little salt and some black pepper. Cook for 7 to 8 minutes to soften, then stir in the saffron threads and paprika to combine. Strain the chicken cooking liquids, about 2 cups, into the pot then add 3 cups stock-in-a-box, chicken, chorizo, and tomatoes. Bring the soup to a bubble, simmer a few minutes to combine flavors then cool completely, cover and place in the refrigerator for make-ahead meal.

To reheat and serve, place the soup over medium to medium-high heat covered, stirring occasionally until heated through. Add the rice to the soup and return the soup to a bubble. Serve in shallow bowls.

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  • on June 22, 2011

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    Delicious, not too spicy for me but enough for my husband, who loves Tex-Mex. Our grocery stores carry Mexican ingredients, so I substituted 4oz (half a tube Mexican chorizo, one jalapeno in place of the red chile, and half a 4 oz jar of sliced pimientos, drained and chopped. I also added the kernels from one ear of corn, since it's in season right now.

    I was using up leftovers, so I made the soup with half a rotisserie chicken instead of poaching from scratch, and used plain leftover white rice with parsley stirred in. I'll definitely make this soup again!

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