Chicken Soup w/ Apples & Leeks
1 Chicken -- quartered Salt & Pepper -- to taste 2 tablespoons Butter 3 Leeks, w/ 1" green -- sliced 2 Granny Smith apples -- peeled 1 cup Apple juice 1/2 cup Vinegar 3 cups Chicke...
Ingredients
- 1chicken -- quartered
- 3leeks, w/ 1" green -- sliced
- 2granny smith apples -- peeled
- 1cupapple juice
- 1/2cupvinegar
- 3cupchicken stock
- 3tablespooncalvados
- 1/2cupheavy cream
Directions
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1 Chicken -- quartered Salt & Pepper -- to taste 2 tablespoons Butter 3 Leeks, w/ 1" green -- sliced 2 Granny Smith apples -- peeled 1 cup A
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Melt the butter over medium heat in a saute pan just large enough to hold the chicken
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Add the chicken, skin side down, and cook for about eight minutes over medium heat
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If the butter in the pan starts to brown, lower the heat slightly
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Turn the chicken and light saute in the same way for five minutes more
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Remove the chicken from the pan and place it in a bowl
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If the butter in the saute pan has burned, pour it out and replace it with two tablespoons fresh butter
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Add the leeks and cook them for 10 minutes over medium heat