Chicken consomme

You can make a real consomme yourself at home, but it will take a lot of time and effort. I learned a little trick that will greatly simplify our task. The famous chef Ilya Lazerson shared it. To prepare a chicken consomme, we will need only a few ingredients: chicken, onion, carrot, pepper and bay leaf. If you find a bouquet of garnia - great, but you can do without it.

We will free the chicken from the skin, fill it with cold water and put it on the fire. Let's wait for boiling and pour out the first broth. At the same time, we will wash the chicken, the pan too. This is the first step to a clear broth. Fill the chicken with cold water again and cook as usual, removing the foam that appears. There won't be so much of it anymore, but there will be. Let the broth cook over low heat, while we prepare the vegetables. Onions and carrots should be cleaned and cut into large pieces.

Now they need to be fried in a dry frying pan until scorched, turning over and making sure that they do not burn. This pre-processing of vegetables will give the broth a wonderful aroma and golden color. As soon as the vegetables are ready, we lower them into the broth, pepper and bay leaf are also sent there. It remains only to salt it well and leave it to cook on low heat for 45 minutes.

If you follow all the steps, then in the end you should already get a transparent broth, but for the final clarification we will freeze it. And we will defrost like this: take a colander, line it with gauze, put it in a saucepan and put our frozen broth in it. It will melt, strain and be clean as a tear. It remains only to warm it up and, if desired, refuel it.