cock-a-leekie

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Anyone know a good recipe for cock-a-leekie soup?

I used to have a great one, but lost it.

And for you pervs, lol, this isn't an STD, but a Scottish soup with chicken and leeks.

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Good grief I was wondering....

[Suluby]

Cock a Leekie Soup

Cock a Leekie Soup is a peasant dish with many regional variations, some which goes back as far as the 16th century. Some cooks add chopped grilled bacon, some use beef stock, some add Jamaican pepper and many suggest offering stewed prunes with the finished dish. Talleyrand, the French gourmet, recommended cooking prunes in the soup. Whichever choice you make this easy recipe from Ronnie Clydesdale of the Ubiquitous Chip in Glasgow is a sure-fire winner.

Prep Time: 1 hour, 30 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour, 30 minutes
Serves 4

Ingredients:
1 x 2lb 12oz/ 1.25k fresh, whole chicken
12 medium sized leeks, well washed and chopped to ¾"/2cm lengths
4 oz/ 100g long grain rice, washed
3 - 4 medium sized carrots, peeled and grated
Salt and crushed black pepper

Preparation:
Put the chicken in a pot with enough water to more than cover. Add ½ of the leeks
Cover the pot and simmer gently for 1 hour or until the chicken is falling off the bone Remove the chicken and reserve.
Strain the stock into a fresh pot, add the rice and cook in a covered pot for 10 minutes Add the grated carrots and the remainder of the chopped leeks and continue cooking for 20 minutes.
Taste for intensity of flavour and, if necessary, reduce further to increase the taste. Season with salt and pepper.
Chop a little of the reserved chicken and add to the finished soup.


Note: The reserved chicken is sometimes served as a separate course with mealie or boiled potatoes and a very strong sauce or perhaps yellow mustard.

Some people use pearled barley instead of rice.[/size]

britishfood.about.com/od/starte2/r/cockleekie.htm

[Suluby]

Cock a Leekie soup


Ingredients:
One whole chicken or several pieces of uncooked and boned chicken wings, legs or quarters
400g of leeks
100g of precooked prunes that have had their stones removed
25g of rice
2 litres of water or soup stock
One teaspoon of brown sugar
Seasoning of salt and pepper, one bay leaf and some thyme
Parsley for the garnish

Optional ingredients: Three rashers of chopped streaky bacon


Directions:
Place the chicken into a large pot and add the soup stock or water. Bring to the boil. As any fatty scum appears at the top of the pot of Cock a Leekie remove and discard.

Wash the leeks and roughly chop into about 2cm pieces, using the green and white pieces, though some cooks prefer just to use the whites of the leeks. Once the chicken or chicken pieces have been boiling for about one hour add the chopped leeks and the herbs of bay leaf and thyme and bring back to the boil and then simmer for two hours. The salt and pepper if used can be added at this stage of the recipe. If used the bacon should be thinly chopped and added to the Cock a Leekie soup pot.

During the simmering of this recipe for Cock a Leekie soup if the water goes down and the fowl or leeks are exposed then top up the water or soup stock.

Test to see if the chicken has cooked by piercing the skin with a fork. No blood should come out and the fork should pierce the flesh easily.

Take out the chicken, giblets or chicken pieces and the bay leaf. Set aside and save some chicken pieces to serve with the Cock a Leekie soup. The rest of the chicken can be used for other recipes, such as a Cock a Leekie pie or even given to the dog as a treat which us what the www.scottishrecipes.co.uk team do!

Add the rice, there is no need to cook it separately as it will cook during the simmering. If you are using the traditional way to cook Cock a Leekie soup then drain the prunes of their juice and add the sliced prunes. Simmer for about thirty minutes. Once all the ingredients have cooked then add some thin chicken strips to the pot. Simmer for about ten more minutes and then serve with your favourite bread and garnish with some chopped parsley.[/size]




www.scottishrecipes.co.uk/cock_a_leekie_soup.htm

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Thanks, I might try one of those. It is quite tasty for anyone curious about it.