Spaghetti in Chicken Soup

This is quite a simple meal, especially good as a toddlers’ or children’s meal. 

Ingredients (serve 2)

1. 4 stalks of celery
2. 2  carrots
3. 1 big yellow onion
4. 2 potatoes
5. 1 chicken breast meat
6. 1 chicken bone (only the backbone and the rib bones left, after all the parts has been cut out and sold separately, you get this for less than S$1 here)
7. 3-4 cups water
8. Salt
9. small handful Spaghetti (note, it will expand 4 times in volume)

Method

1. Boil the spaghetti till soft, and drain dry.  Optional (for children), using scissors, cut into short sections (about 3 cm)
2. Peel and dice the potatoes into small cubes of 1 cm.  Dice 1 of the celery into small cubes of ½ cm.
3. Wash and drain dry the chicken breast.  Rub with some ½ teaspoon salt.
4. Pan fry the chicken breast till brown and just cooked. (about 10 mins).  When done, leave to cool and cut into slices.
5. Wash and cut the remaining of the celery into sections that can fit into a pot.  Remove the skin of the carrot. Remove the skin of the onion and cut into chucks.  Wash the chicken bone.
6. Put all into a pot with 3-4 cups water, and allow to boil.  When boil, simmer for 20 mins to get the chicken vegetable stock.
7. Remove the all the ingredients from the soup.  Discard away the onion, celery and chicken bone.  Dice the carrots into cubes of ½ cm.  Put it back into the soup, and together with the diced potato and celery, let it simmer for another 20 mins until the potato is soft.
8. Add in chicken breast and salt to taste.
9. Lastly add in the spaghetti and allow to boil for 1 mins.
10. Serve.

illustration of pan fry chicken breast meat.