This recipe is a standby for me. It's easy. It's tasty. It's adaptable. When I get home after a long day and I'm a bit peckish, I make the basic version. When I get home and I want a quick hot meal, I add quinoa. When I'm starving, I add chicken.
Ingredients:
1 cup chicken broth*
1 green onion chopped**
1 egg
salt & pepper to taste
Optional:
1/3 cup cooked quinoa***
2-3 chicken meatballs
Instructions: Put all ingredients except the egg into a pot (with a bit of water since these ingredients are all frozen) and bring to a boil. The best way to add the egg is to crack it into a bowl, beat it and then add it to the boiling pot while stirring vigorously When I'm lazy and saving on dishes, I just crack the egg right into the pot while stirring but that does lead to a few large egg bits rather than those nice long noodle-y bits. Stir for a minute (at this point, boiling over is a very real danger - do not walk away). And, you're done. That easy.
*Chicken Broth: I make my own and freeze it in one cup moulds (ziplock makes little one-cup plastic containers and I use those and then pop the blocks out and keep them in a large freezer bag... I've also in the past used muffin tins to freeze chicken broth as standard ones are all 1/2 cup). Even if you buy broth, you can still freeze it like this to have on hand both for recipes on cooking weekend and for this soup.
**Green Onion: for several months this was something I kept fresh in my produce drawer of my fridge but there's nothing worse than coming home, wanting soup and finding that the onions have turned into tasteless slimy things while you weren't looking. So, this past weekend, I cut green onions up and filled an ice cube tray with them. Then, I poured water over them, froze them and popped them out to store in a freezer bag. So far, it seems to be a good solution.
***Quinoa: I make this during cooking weekends. I make 2 cups of dry and then portion it into 8 servings in little zipper bags and freeze.
Calories (without quinoa): 96 Calories, Fat 6.2 (Saturated 1.9g, Polyunsaturated 1g Monounsaturated 2.5g) Cholesterol 211mg, Sodium 149mg, Potassium 104mg, Carbs 2.3g, Protein 7.7g
Calories with quinoa: 178 calories, Fat 8g, Carbs 17g, Fiber 2g, Protein 10g
