Chicken Soup with Potato Gnocchi

A simple, budget-friendly, and delicious soup with chicken thighs or any other chicken portions. Italian gnocchi – an analog of our dumplings or dumplings, boiled pieces of potato dough. Gnocchi gives the first course an original look and additional filling.

Summary

Ingredients

• Chicken thighs – 2 pcs. (350 g)
• Potatoes – 5 pcs. (600 g)
• Carrots – 1 pc. (80 g)
• Bulb onions – 1 pc. (70 g)
• Egg – 1 pc.
• Flour – 80 g
• Salt – 1 teaspoon
• Ground black pepper – on the tip of a knife
• Vegetable oil (for frying) – 3 tbsp
• Parsley or dill to taste

Instructions

1. Prepare all ingredients. Any part of chicken will work for chicken broth, I used thighs.

   

2. Peel the potatoes. Leave two potatoes whole, cut the rest into medium pieces.
3. Boil 2 L of water in a saucepan.
   Place chicken thighs and two whole potatoes in boiling water. Cook for 20 minutes over medium heat.
4. Peel carrots and onions.
   Cut the onion into cubes and finely chop the carrots.

   

5. Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan and fry the onions and carrots over medium heat for 5-7 minutes, until soft.
6. Remove the boiled potatoes from the pan and mash them with a fork in the puree. Cool it down.
7. Add an egg to mashed potatoes, add flour, and 1 pinch of salt. Knead the sticky potato dough.
8. Send the chopped potatoes to the pan with the chicken. Remove the chicken pieces from the broth and cool.
9. Send the frying to a saucepan, bring to a boil and cook for 10 minutes.
10. Roll thin sausages from the potato dough on a surface crushed with wheat flour.
11. Cut the dough sausages into small pieces, about 1.2 cm thick. Press the wide, flat side with a fork, forming grooves characteristic of the gnocchi.
12. Place the potato gnocchi in the soup, bring to a boil, and cook for 5 minutes, until they float.
13. Remove the chicken meat from the bone, chop, and send it to the saucepan with the soup.
14. Add black pepper and salt, bring to a boil again and turn off the heat. Let the soup sit for 10 minutes.
15. Chicken gnocchi soup is ready. You can add fresh parsley or dill to the plate.