Cookbook Stand – Hot & Spicy Chicken Soup from Cook Yourself Thin

This is the third recipe I’ve tried from the Cook Yourself Thin book and so far the record has been a bit mixed; the french beans were delicious but the chocolate truffles a complete disaster, so how would the Hot & Spicy Chicken Soup turn out? Well it was fairly straight forward to cook, quite a long list of ingredients but you don’t have to do anything harder really than put them in a saucepan. I added noodles to this recipe (cooking them separately and adding it in the end) as I was hungry and knew I wouldn’t be satisfied with just chicken in broth. So when it came to the tasting? Well I’m very glad I included the noodles because after I’d finished the chicken and the noodles the soup just became boring. It did have a nice flavour, although certainly wasn’t what I’d call ‘hot and spicy’ but after a while it was a case of “Can I be bothered to eat this anymore?” and it was a resounding no. I think there are some far better spicy chicken soup recipes out there, Jamie Oliver does a gorgeous one in one of his earlier books where its chicken and noodles with just a bit of broth and Nigel Slater’s spicy chicken soup is guaranteed to be just that, spicy.

So far the record is not looking good for the Cook Yourself Thin book; one delicious, one disaster and one so so, but there are plenty more recipes I want to try out, a coleslaw recipe and several aubergine recipes, so I’ll be reporting back!