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Dad’s Sunday Afternoon (Guyanese) Chicken Soup

Ingredients
For Soup
3 large chicken bouillon cubes (if you have small ones, use 6 cubes)
1 tsp black pepper
1 tsp salt
5 cloves of garlic
1 onion
1 gallon of water (16 cups)
1/4 cup yellow split peas (not pictured)
2 skinny cassava chopped into 2 inch pieces (I say skinny b/c the thicker ones are just harder to peel)
4-5 edoes chopped in half or quarters if you bought large ones (4-5 is about 1/2 lb)
1/2 lb pumpkin chopped into 4 in pieces
2 cups chopped fresh spinach (1 cup if using frozen spinach)
1 green plantain chopped in 1 1/2 inch pieces
2 bay leaves
2 red scotch bonnet peppers or 3 wiri wiri peppers
 
For Chicken
2 lbs chicken cleaned and chopped in medium size pieces
1 tsp black pepper
1 tsp cayenne pepper
1 tbsp casareep or browning sauce
 
For Dumpling
3/4 cup flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp black pepper
1 tbsp butter
1/4 cup whole milk
Method
  1. Clean, chop, and season the chicken, set aside
  2. Pour 16 cups of water into a large deep pot and bring to a boil.
  3. After peeling, wash cassava, edoes, and plantain, set aside.
  4. Rinse and chop spinach, pumpkin, onion garlic and scotch bonnet then put into boiling water with 1/4 cup washed split peas. Cover with lid, reduce heat to medium, and continue to boil for 40 minutes.
  5. Use pot spoon to mash the pumpkin on the side of the pot to see if it is soft. The peas should also be soft, if it is not, continue to boil until it is almost disappearing into the soup.
  6. Once peas are soft add the plantains, cassava, and edoes along with 3 bouillon cubes, and bay leaves.
  7. If you feel this needs more water you can add another 2 cups at this point.
  8. Turn the heat to low-medium and let the vegetables cook for another 20 minutes until they are medium-soft.
  9. While the vegetables are cooking, make the dough for the dumpling (it will be a stiff dough which is okay.
  10. Cook the chicken in a separate pan in 1 tbsp of oil. Saute until the chicken is cooked and browned.
  11. Once the edoes, cassava, and plantains are cooked through, add the chicken to the soup. Let the flavors simmer together on low heat for 15 minutes. Give it a good stir.
  12. Break small pieces of dumpling dough and drop it into the soup. The dumplings will cook in approximately 5 minutes. Stir the soup as your drop the dumplings in.
  13. Let it simmer for an additional 10 minutes.
Carribean
Comfort food
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