Savvy Mailbag: Chicken Soup with Yucca

Posted in Food Recipes, Health Archive, Savvy Mailbag | Saturday, April 10th, 2010

I don’t know about you, but here in New York, we’ve gone through about 3 seasons this week, and now it seems to be fall here again for some reason?! I thought it would be a perfect day to share this recipe straight from the mailbag! (Note: If you’re vegetarian just leave the chicken out of this one..)

This one comes from Andrea, who sent me this recipe for chicken soup with a twist. If you can’t find yucca where you live you can always substitute potatoes in this recipe.

Chicken Soup Recipe

raw yucc

Ingredients
2 or 3 scallions, chopped
3 or 4 cloves of garlic, minced
2 tbsp olive oil
2 pounds of chicken, cut into cubes (use free-range chicken for better flavor)
poultry seasoning — to taste
salt and pepper to taste
4 cups of organic free-range chicken broth (or vegetable broth)
4 cups of water
1/2 pound of carrots, chopped
1 pound of yuca, cubed (yuca is very hard to cut so see if you can get it roughly chopped)

Directions:
Heat the olive oil in a heavy soup pot. Fry the scallions and the garlic in the oil until the scallions are a little transparent and the garlic is fragrant. Add the chicken and the seasoning and the salt and pepper and fry all that until the chicken is a little browned. Pour in the broth and the water. Let this simmer for some time. Then add the chopped vegetables. Let that simmer until the yuca is soft and absorbs the flavor of the broth. The chicken should come apart easily when you go at it with a spoon. I serve it over brown rice or cous cous.

Thanks Andrea!

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3 Responses to “Savvy Mailbag: Chicken Soup with Yucca”

Erica says:

April 10, 2010 at 3:21 PM

I’ve never thought of using yucca in a soup, but they make delicious fries! I’ll have to try this soup without the chicken, sounds interesting!
Melissa W. says:

April 14, 2010 at 1:19 PM

this recipe looks yummy! I’m never cooked with yucca before. I’ll have to try this. Thanks for the recipe.
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