caldo de pollo

Categories
Mexican
Yield
8 Servings
MeasureIngredient
Chicken (3 1/2 pounds) or 3 pounds chicken wings and backs
1 medium Onion; unpeeled
Garlic cloves; unpeeled
Celery stalk or leafy tops of 3 celery stalks
Carrot; scrubbed, unpeeled
Bay leaves
1 teaspoon Black peppercorns
  Salt; to taste

The chicken can be left whole or cut up into 6 to 8 pieces. Combine all the ingredients in a medium-large pot or Dutch oven. Bring to a boil over high heat. Reduce the heat at once to low. Simmer, partly covered, until the meat is barely tender, about 30 minutes. Remove the chicken from the stock.

Strain through a fine sieve and skim the fat, discarding the solids in the sieve.

Can be stored, tightly covered, 4 to 5 days in the refrigerator, or indefinitely in the freezer.

Yield: 8 to 9 cups

Recipe by: CHEF DU JOUR ZARELA MARTINEZ SHOW #DJ9162 Posted to recipelu-digest Volume 01 Number 262 by Peg Baldassari <Baldassari@...> on Nov 16, 1997

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