Lentil Soup (with homemade chicken stock)

Never throw a chicken carcass away after a baked dinner. Freeze it, if you don't have time to pop it into a crockpot with some onion and carrot and water to simmer away.

After a baked dinner, strip all the meat off the carcass and toss it into a crockpot with and onion, peppercorns, a celery stick and and a small carrot. Cover the carcass with water and leave it overnight to extract all the flavour and goodness out of those bones. In the morning, strain the stock and pour it into sandwich size snap lock bags. I freeze them flat on the freezer floor and, once frozen, stand them up in the draw where they can be easily viewed and accessed for all sorts of dishes. No need to buy that powdered stock ever again.

Gather

Chicken stock | 1 litre of homemade chicken stock

Lentils | 1 cup

Onion | 1, sliced

salt & pepper | to taste

Bay leaf | 2 large

What to Do

Place all the ingredients into a saucepan and let it simmer for at least an hour and until the lentils are tender. Test for seasoning.

Serve with some parsley and the best sourdough bread you can get your hands on.

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