Whole chicken / slow cooker / chicken soup

[cornishone]

I've bought a chicken

The end result I'm after is a load of chicken soup in the freezer I can take to work.

We could have the chicken for dinner tonight and use leftovers for soup, or use all the chicken in the soup (grab bits off for risotto etc).

I've seen recipes for slow cooked chicken soup, but there seem to be a lot of complaints about the bones getting through.

Give me your best whole chicken / soup combinations.

I cook the chicken on a layer of chopped onion/carrot/celery and add 500ml of chicken stock.
When cooked I strip the meat from the bones, chop it and add to the stock, topping up with more water as necessary. Add seasoning.
It’s my absolute favourite soup. Sometimes I add a tin of sweetcorn or a teaspoon of curry powder.
I don’t blend it or anything else 😋

Chicken parmesan soup
this is delicious, I don't have a slow cooker so used the hob. It says serves 4, and I got 4 generous portions plus an extra 600ml of beautiful stock, and 300g of shredded chicken which I felt was overkill to put in the soup, and having eaten the finished article I was right to not add in!

Do you use a slow cooker or just the oven/hob?

Tom Kerridge is cooking chicken soup using a whole chicken on This Morning right now

Ooh. I'll try to find it on catch up.