CHICKEN OR BEEF SOUP

Main ingredients:

3 or 4 carrots                  

2 root parsley                          you can buy all vegetables together

½ stalk of celery                     in a pack called: “włoszczyzna”

1 leek

1 onion

1 chicken leg or 1 beef flank

1 stock cube (if it’s based on chicken you can use just any cube, but if it’s made based on a beef then use veal or beef cube only)

4-7 teaspoons of salt

a bit of pepper (1/2 -1 teaspoon)

4 liters of water

Additional ingredients (not obligatory):

1 spoon of oil/olive oil

1 bucket of parsley leafs

Preparation:

Just clean and scrapp/rind the vegetables, put them in the pot with a meat and fill the pot with water. Only the onion mustn’t be rinded, because the main reason of using onion is to get more yellowish colour of the soup. Boil it all together for less then 1 hour (around 40 minutes) and then add a stock cube, salt and pepper (additionaly you can add 1 spoon of oil/olive oil) and keep boiling soup for another quarter. After that it is ready to serve.

Polish serve this soup with pasta or small dumplings with meat called “uszka z mięsem”. Usually we spread some chopped parsley leafs on the top.