Name: Chicken, cabbage and bread soup
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 100 min
Total time: 130 min
Yield: 6
Ingredients: 2 litres (8 cups) chicken stock (see note); 2 chicken breasts, bone in, skin on (520gm); 2 tbsp olive oil; 110 gm flat mild pancetta; 2 small onions, diced; 3 garlic cloves, finely chopped; 500 gm Savoy cabbage (about ½), ribs discarded, leaves coarsely chopped; 300 gm sourdough bread, sliced; 140 gm coarsely grated Gruyère

Chicken, cabbage and bread soup

Australian Gourmet Traveller recipe for chicken, cabbage and bread soup.

Serves 6

Prep

30M

Cook

1H 40M

Total

2H 10M

Ingredients

2 litres (8 cups) chicken stock (see note)

2 chicken breasts, bone in, skin on (520gm)

2 tbsp olive oil

110 gm flat mild pancetta

2 small onions, diced

3 garlic cloves, finely chopped

500 gm Savoy cabbage (about ½), ribs discarded, leaves coarsely chopped

300 gm sourdough bread, sliced

140 gm coarsely grated Gruyère

Method

Main

1.Bring chicken stock to the boil in a saucepan over high heat, season to taste, add chicken, return to the boil, reduce heat to low, simmer for 5 minutes. Remove from heat, stand in liquid until cooked through and cooled (1 hour). Remove chicken, shred meat (discard bones), reserve stock and meat separately.

2.Preheat oven to 180C. Heat oil in a large saucepan over medium-high heat, add pancetta and stir occasionally until golden (3-5 minutes). Add onion, stir occasionally until tender (10-15 minutes), add garlic, stir to combine, then add cabbage and reserved stock and meat. Bring to the boil, reduce heat to medium, cook until cabbage is tender (10-15 minutes) and season to taste.

3.Transfer half the cabbage soup to a 3-litre ovenproof dish. Arrange half the bread slices over and scatter with half the Gruyère, then repeat with remaining soup (reserve a little liquid to pour over bread), bread and Gruyère. Pour reserved liquid over and gently press bread into soup to absorb stock. Bake until golden and bubbly (40-50 minutes). Serve hot.

For this recipe and others for chicken soup, buy good-quality chicken stock or make your own: see step 1 of our
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This recipe is from the August 2012 issue of
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Drink Suggestion: Dry Sherry or vin jaune. Drink suggestion by Max Allen
Notes