Chicken & Rice soup

[deepseadiver]

Im just about to make a pot of chicken and rice soup.I took the chicken breasts out of the freezer yesterday.They are uncooked .Do I have to cook them first or just chop them up and put straight into the pot raw.

[puddicat]

I would cook them in the pot,will give xtra flavour!!

[heathfield]

Do as Puddicat says. But much of the flavour of chicken stock comes from the fatty bits of the chicken which your breast fillets won't have, so add a chicken stock cube or two.

[deepseadiver]

Thanks thats just what ive done and put a good spoonful of bouillon in as well

[nohorn]

Another tidbit: I read in a cooking magazine that ground chicken, w/water, and properly cooked makes good broth. It suggested adding commercial broth to it for a quickie