Healthy chicken noodle broth turned into a cold, tasteless and very awkward to eat dinner...
For many weeks I have been looking forward to this chicken broth with its cinnamon, star anise and Thai basil flavours: expecting to feel healthy and cleansed after. Only the surprisingly tasty Daylesford Organic chicken softened this disaster. Another silver star to Daylesford for producing quality produce (there eggs were really tasty too).
Not sure how Nigel does it, but meat on the bone in a watery broth was never going to be easy to eat. Maybe my choice of chicken pieces wasn't correct (he did say wings though which I included), and/or my spices were not quality enough or too old. I admit I only had thick rice noodles rather than thin ones, but surely that's a minor detail and its not going to affect taste is it?
He said to take the broth off the heat and leave to sit whilst you cook the noodles and greens, which meant it went cold. Not helped as the noodles asked to be cooked by soaking in hot water for 15 mins by which time the water was cold.
Hmmm... I might try again, but would take meat off the bone to serve and mix the greens with the broth, reheat and serve OVER the noodles. I will try this with the leftovers.
Otherwise, all I can think is I'm not meant to serve the meat, just use it for flavour, but what a waste!
Perhaps I should ask Nigel.
However all was not lost today as Hetti and Stuart came over for tea. In opposition to last week they brought the goodies - wholesome butternut squash soup which we had with some sourdough bread I had, lightly toasted with lashings of unsalted butter, finished Hetti's signature chocolate chip cookies🍪. We ate them all, of course.
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