Chicken Soup

Ingredients

• 1-2 kilo whole fresh chicken, cleaned and rinsed well
• 2-3 teaspoons olive oil
• Salt
• Fine ground black pepper
• 1 cup rough chopped onion
• 4-5 6” or more stalks of celery or 2 tbsp ground celery
• 1 medium head of cabbage, washed, cored, quartered
• 3-5 medium to large carrots, peeled
• 1 tbsp ground sweet basil
• ½ tbsp ground garlic
• Small can whole peeled tomatoes
• Small can of sweet peas

Instructions

1. In a large pot. Place the oil
2. Then salt, pepper, the chicken well, also garlic, basil and ground celery the chicken inside and out.
3. Put it in the bottom of the pot over the oil layer in the vegetables’, onions, carrots, celery if used, cabbage, canned tomatoes, peas, sweet kernel corn can be added if desired also.
4. Fill the pot with water just to barely cover the ingredients but on high heat, when it maintains a stiff boil reduce heat to simmer, cover the pot let simmer till veggies soft tender and meat is falling from the chicken bones.
5. Remove the chicken, let cool enough that you can remove all meat from the bones, returning the meat to the cooking pot. Complete salt and pepper seasoning to your tastes.
6. Can be served over Rice with Canton Pancit, or plain