Chicken with Asparagus Soup

Nothing beats recipes that cultivate the simple taste of natural ingredients. Among these recipes, I think the plain old chicken with asparagus soup is a special mention. A comfort food which is nice especially in rainy days... In this recipe, I used white asparagus spears. They look nice with the chicken. It maintains the simple colour of the dish. Also, I recommend using free range chicken (in the Philippines, we call them native chicken) for this recipe. Using this type of chicken imparts special taste qualities that is not attainable with ordinary dressed chicken you normally come across supermarket

Ingredients:

1 pc. Dressed free range chicken cut to serving size.

1 can White asparagus spears

¾ tsp. Iodized salt

½ tsp. Black pepper (powder)

2 cups Water

1 pc. Onion (medium sized, peeled and sliced thinly)

5 cloves Garlic (minced)

3 pcs. Ginger (sliced thinly about 1 tsp.)

Cooking Instruction:

Place in a pressure cooker the chicken, water drained from the asparagus, black pepper, onion, garlic, ginger, and water. Pressure cook for about 25 minutes. After 25 minutes, turn off the heat and allow cooling normally. Do not vent the steam from the pressure cooker as the cooling time which takes about 10-15 minutes is also used for additional cooking of the contents. When it is already safe to open the pressure cooker, open and skim off excess fat from the broth to lower the fat content of the dish further and then fold in the white asparagus spears. Serve hot with your choice of bread...