Byenan's Recipe Series: CHICKEN SOPAS A LA ANNIE

I'm not the housewife kind of wife. My expertise is directed at other things, not at making or keeping the home. Thank God that we live at my mother-in-law's, and that she takes charge of the kitchen. Thank God for the blessing that is my mother-in-law! :-)

For now I'm safe, I have escaped the pressure of having to cook for my family, but I know I will have to face that "duty" someday eventually. And when that time comes I wouldn't want to disappoint my husband with my cooking, so I've begun to snoop around my mother-in-law's kitchen and take note of how she cooks her stuff.

Recipe for the day:
CHICKEN SOPAS a LA ANNIE

INGREDIENTS:
- elbow macaroni
- pounded garlic
- diced onions
- chicken breast and thigh
- diced eggs
- cheese
- evaporated milk
- carrot strips
- chopped cabbage
- fish sauce (patis)
- ground pepper
- butter

DIRECTIONS:
- boil chicken in water til cooked. set aside the water for later (as chicken broth).
- boil elbow macaroni in water til cooked.
- when boiled chicken cools, himayin into thin strips.
- sautee garlic, onions, and chicken strips in butter. then mix with chicken broth. set to a boil, keep fire low.
- while boiling, season with pepper and patis. add cheese. stir until the cheese has melted into the soup.
- add cooked  macaroni. stir.
- add pounded eggs and evaporated milk. stir for a few minutes.
- add carrot strips and chopped cabbage. stir until vegetables are cooked.
- add additional seasoning to taste.

I know the basics of cooking sopas, but the difference of the sopas i know with Mommy's sopas are the additional ingredients of cheese, diced eggs, and butter. My father also cooks a mean diet-breaker of a sopas recipe, so I'm marrying the two recipes with the following additional ingredients:

- quail eggs and thinly-sliced hotdogs (add last)
- chicken liver, heart, balun-balunan (sautee with the chicken, onion and garlic)

And for extra flavor, Papa adds the bones of the boiled chicken into the soup para sumama yung lasa nung bones sa sopas.

So there. sana mapangatawanan ko ang Byenen Recipe series kong ito. hehe. Yumyumyum! <3