World’s Best Chicken Soup recipe by Joe Conlon

Good for the body — Good for the soul. Also known as Jewish penicillin or cure for the common cold.

First of all, soup to me is an attitude rather than a specific recipe. What follows is the way I do it. Don’t be afraid to get creative. I usually throw in most of the leftover veggies in the refrigerator and cast spells over the pot as it simmers.  Ingredients:

Stock

2-3 Tablespoons olive oil Lawry’s seasoned salt (about 1 ½ tsp)

2 cloves of garlic crushed ½ tsp pepper

1 chicken 2 carrots chunked

1 large can chicken stock 2 stalks celery chunked

1 medium onion 2 –3 ozs. Creme Sherry wine

several slices fresh ginger root water

Cut up the chicken. Put the olive oil and garlic in the bottom of the pressure cooker and fry for a minute. Add the chicken and fry for a minute or two. Add all the other ingredients to the pressure cooker. I peel the onion and leave it whole but run a knife through the center of the onion to keep it from falling apart in the pot. Place the jiggler on the pressure cooker and cook on high until it starts jiggling. Turn down heat to low and cook for 30 minutes. Place pot under cold running water to release pressure. When the thing hisses and releases pressure, take off the top and remove the chicken and bones and onion and veggies and ginger root. Throw away the veggies and let the chicken cool while you continue the next step. Return the open pot and stock to the flame and add the veggies below.

4 medium potatoes, cut into ½ cup uncooked rice

bite size cubes 1 cup noodles

1 can sliced water chestnuts ½ cup chopped celery

1 can mushrooms pieces & stems 1 small can corn or ½ cup frozen corn

or fresh mushrooms sliced 1 medium onion chopped

½ red pepper chopped (Any good looking leftovers)

Simmer for about ½ hour until veggies are tender. While the soup is cooking, remove the meat from the chicken and add it to the pot. Taste the spicing and adjust as necessary, adding seasoned salt, pepper, garlic powder, ginger as necessary. Be careful to not add any bones. Enjoy. This soup gets better the next day and it freezes well. Keep some in the freezer for when you’re feelin’ poorly and it’ll fix you right up. Serve with fresh bread hot from the oven. Mmmm good!

Chicken Soup Stories

“I’ve won several cooking contests from newspapers and ribbons at the county fair with this recipe. Whenever anyone in the family had a cold, I made chicken soup. Scientific research has showed that chicken soup really does help you feel better — they don’t know why, but it works. That’s why the chicken really crossed the road. He wanted to be famous and heard I was the guy that could make it happen. I invited him for dinner and the rest is history.

There are lots of caves in the area around Bloomington, Indiana. When I was in college at I.U. one Saturday I had gone caving. On returning to my room — tired and extremely muddy, I opened my closet door to get a towel planning on heading to the shower. There was a terrible squawk and a blur of white hit me about knee level. I screamed and jumped backward into the hall buck naked. I peaked back into my room to see a terrified chicken running around the room.

One of the pledges of the fraternity had found a chicken wandering around in the back yard and had decided it would be a good prank to put it in my closet and see what happened. Needless to say, he was quite pleased with my reaction. I got an egg from the kitchen and told the pledge the chicken had laid it in my closet and it was his duty to hatch it. I showed all the brothers my parlor trick of how I could hypnotize a chicken (which my great Aunt Marg Reutter had taught me how to do as a boy on her farm in Fowler, Indiana ). A few days later we got tired of the chicken and gave it to our fraternity’s cook who I assumed made soup out of it. A day later a little girl showed up looking for her lost chicken. We lied and said we hadn’t seen it since we didn’t want to break her heart by telling of its true fate.”

Joe Conlon

Story #2: “The first food I ever made for Joyce was my famous chicken soup. It was on the day I met her. She and her roommate Margaret had come over to see my roommate Tom. While Margaret and Tom went into the rear of the apartment to talk, I was left to entertain Joyce. I thought she was the most beautiful creature I’d ever seen and I thought she was a dead ringer for Olivia Hussey who starred in a movie of Romeo and Juliet that I had just seen about eight times in the week before I met her. I’d been cooking that day and dearly wanted to impress her. So I offered her a bowl of my chicken soup. It must have worked because we had two great kids together and the rest is history.”

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