Recipe for Jewish chicken soup?

I decided I need this to make me feel better. I looked it up and there are a variety of recipes but they start with boiling a chicken with veg for about 3 hours then leaving it to cool overnight to skim off the fat. I want it quicker than that and I don't want to boil the carcass, I tried that once and the result looked yucky so I threw it out!

I am starting with cooked chicken and some jelly from the bottom of the roasting tin, and the recipes so far that I have found online have carrots and celery (apart from one that only had carrots) and either: turnip, swede or parsnips depending which site you go to. It also has parsley which I have just about growing in a container so I can do that and the carrots and celery but not the turnip/swede/parsnips. I do have celeriac which has got to be vaguely similar though.

So I am off to make my version of Jewish chicken soup in the pressure cooker to eat tonight, and now I am feeling hungry!

Oh I forgot to say onions too.

So in 25 mins (how long is 3 hours cooking in pressure cooking terms? I decided 25 mins should be plenty) my soup will be ready, my onions were all growing apart from one and a tiny one so I added some leeks, have a lot of them and haven't been eating much since Saturday so they want using.
Added Celeriac, the parsley was only 1/2 " or 2.5 cm high so didn't get much of that but found a tiny bit in a jar that was so old it was nearly colourless and added that. I could have added lots of nice fresh basil, or rosemary, sage or thyme, but I didn't think that would be the right flavour.

It was supposed to be two sticks of celery, but the organic celery I bought Saturday morning was looking past its best and I had to lop a lot off so I added 4 sticks! I was looking at the non organic celery that DH bought Sat - he gets cheapest I get organic, he eats cheapest I eat organic!

Seriously Saturday morning was a great time to go shopping in Tesco the size of a small country because there was actually food on the shelves, and being open 24 hours is not a lot of good to me if the fresh food is all gone or no longer being served! The downside is the amount of people with the same idea, pushing and shoving and queuing and I got rammed up the backside by a disabled motorised scooter thing, painful. I know they don't go very fast and I wonder if it was deliberate! I had to stop, the peeps in front of me had stopped but the scooter kept going!

Well whatever it ended up as it is delicious. I did add some rice flour to thicken it, like my soup thicker rather than thinner! As soon as it cools down I will begin the medication with soup!
Anyone for altered Jewish chicken soup?

Sounds good Carol.......... I like hock soup. Put veg in and boil until the meat is cooked. Remove the hock and remove meat from the bone, then dice and add back to the pot. Simmer again......... delish...
Also like homemade broccoli and stilton soup. Anyone want the recipe for it?????

No thanks Dee, don't like stilton!

I felt better after eating the soup, but not quite so good this morning. I had the rest of the soup for lunch so I hope it works its magic again. I am not in as much pain as I was yesterday though.

Oooh it sounds lovely Cazzy. I could just eat some now.

I love making home-made soups but I don't follow a recipe very often. I just throw in whats in the fridge or cupboard & a fresh bayleaf & milk or cream at the end.

Hope your soup works.x

Same here but because I have heard that it has been scientifically proved that Jewish Chicken soup to an authentic recipe does really make people better I thought I should have some! I usually chuck all the herbs in the garden in and whatever is in the fridge, well it did sort of end up like that, leeks weren't in the recipe, or celeriac, or rice flour come to that!

this all sounds very very yummy!!!

Sounds wonderful Cazzy. Maybe you should bottle it and sell it as medicine?!