A bowl of hot, creamy chicken sopas makes anyone feel at home. The soup also warms you up on a cold day, especially during the chilly season. For this reason, we’re sharing our easy chicken sopas recipe.
This chicken sopas recipe helps you create a delicious, hearty soup. You can serve it to your loved ones or restaurant customers.
What Is Sopas?
But before we dive into this beloved recipe, let’s take a look at what sopas is first.
You’ll likely see the word soup if you Google “What is sopas?”.
Of course, Google is correct. Sopas is a Spanish word that translates to soup.
Sopas is a staple in Filipino cuisine. While Filipinos call many dishes sopas (e.g., pancit lomi and chicken sotanghon), the word commonly associates with chicken soup with macaroni, vegetables, and milk broth.
While flaked chicken is the most popular ingredient, you can use other meats. These meats include diced pork, ground beef, sliced ham, or corned beef. Some cooks add hotdogs and small meatballs to their sopas.
In addition, sopas is rich, delicious, and one of the best ways to warm yourself up. For many Filipinos, sopas holds the title of the ultimate comfort food.
Chicken Sopas Recipe Cooking Tips
- To add more flavor to your sopas, start by sautéing a mirepoix. It’s a combination of onions, celery, and carrots. Doing this helps create a flavorful base for the soup. While adding more vegetables to your sopas makes it tastier, please don’t overdo it.
- The broth serves as the central element in any good soup recipe. Using chicken bones helps give your soup a full-bodied taste. While boneless chicken may be more convenient, the extra flavor from the bones can be worth the extra effort. As an alternative, you can use chicken stock when cooking your soup.
- The recipe involves carrots, pechay, and other optional ingredients like celery and cabbage as vegetable add-ons. However, feel free to add or swap diced potatoes, green peas, and kinchay (Chinese celery) if you like.
- To enhance the broth’s and chicken flavor, gently simmer chicken with bones in aromatic ingredients until cooked. After flaking the meat, return the bones to the pot and simmer them for at least 30 minutes to an hour to extract their flavor. While this step may take a bit more time, this leads to a more flavorful soup.
- A lot of Filipinos add hotdogs to sopas. You can do the same thing. But if you don’t want to add hotdogs, consider using cubed ham, Vienna sausages, or liver.
- Cook the macaroni directly in the soup if you prefer. The extra starch will thicken the broth nicely. If you want a thinner consistency, add water and adjust the seasonings as needed.
- You can add butter to the soup. Just sauté the garlic and onions in butter instead of oil.
- Cooks sometimes use chicken breasts instead of meat with bones because they can easily shred them. However, they have less flavor than the boney parts.
- Some cooks prefer to use the legs and wings since they have more flavor. To add more flavor, you can sauté the boney parts in butter before adding them to the soup.
Chicken Sopas Recipe
Chicken Sopas Recipe
This delicious and hearty sopas recipe keeps you warm during cold and rainy days. So what are you waiting for? Grab your kitchen tools now and start rocking that sopas!
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Prep Time 10 minutes mins
Cook Time 1 hour hr 30 minutes mins
Total Time 1 hour hr 40 minutes mins
Course Soup
Cuisine Filipino
Servings 6
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp cooking oil
- 1 stalk celery sliced crosswise
- 2 tbsp White Onion chopped
- 200 grams chicken breast fillet cubed
- 2 cloves Garlic chopped
- 3 cups Water
- 2 pcs chicken broth cube
- 100 grams elbow macaroni
- 1 cup Potatoes diced
- 2 cups Baguio Pechay or Pak-Choi shredded
- 1 cup Carrots diced
- 1 pinch white pepper ground
- 1 pinch Salt
- 1 cup Evaporated Milk
- hearty ingredients optional: spinach, kale, mushrooms, malunggay leaves
Instructions
In a huge pot or pan, put oil over medium heat.
1 tbsp cooking oil
Next, add the onions and garlic. Sauté them until soft.
2 tbsp White Onion, 2 cloves Garlic
Then, add celery and sauté for one more minute.
1 stalk celery
Put in the chicken and cook until it turns white.
200 grams chicken breast fillet
Next, drop the chicken broth cube, and mix well until dissolved.
2 pcs chicken broth cube
Pour in the water. Let the soup boil before adding the macaroni.
3 cups Water, 100 grams elbow macaroni
Leave the soup under medium heat until the macaroni looks cooked halfway.
Put in carrots and potatoes. Continue to cook until the macaroni and potatoes get fully cooked.
1 cup Carrots, 1 cup Potatoes
Pour in evaporated milk. Let the soup simmer.
1 cup Evaporated Milk
Add Baguio pechay and other optional vegetables. Cook for two more minutes.
2 cups Baguio Pechay or Pak-Choi, hearty ingredients
Season with salt and pepper as needed.
1 pinch white pepper, 1 pinch Salt
Serve. Enjoy!
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Course: Main Dish
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 1 hour and 30 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour and 40 minutes
Servings: 6
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp cooking oil
- 1 stalk celery, sliced crosswise
- 2 tbsp chopped white onion
- 200 grams chicken breast fillet, cubed
- 2 cloves garlic, chopped
- 3 cups water
- 2 pcs chicken broth cube
- 100 grams elbow macaroni
- 1 cup diced potatoes
- 2 cups shredded Baguio pechay or Pak-Choi
- 1 cup diced carrots
- pinch of ground white pepper
- 1 cup evaporated milk
- hearty ingredients (optional): spinach, kale, mushrooms, malunggay leaves
Instructions
- In a huge pot or pan, put oil over medium heat.
- Next, add the onions and garlic. Sauté them until soft.
- Then, add celery and sauté for one more minute.
- Put in the chicken and cook until it turns white.
- Next, drop the chicken broth cube, and mix well until dissolved.
- Pour in the water. Let the soup boil before adding the macaroni.
- Leave the soup under medium heat until the macaroni looks cooked halfway.
- Put in carrots and potatoes. Continue to cook until the macaroni and potatoes get fully cooked.
- Pour in evaporated milk. Let the soup simmer.
- Add Baguio pechay and other optional vegetables. Cook for two more minutes.
- Season with salt and pepper as needed.
- Serve. Enjoy!
How to Serve Chicken Sopas
Another question most people ask when cooking sopas is, “How do you serve chicken sopas?”.
If this question lives in your mind rent-free, we got your back.
- First of all, you must serve chicken sopas while it’s hot.
- When the soup is ready, transfer it to a big bowl or crockpot to keep it warm throughout the afternoon or evening.
- You can also serve the sopas in individual small bowls or mugs. Doing this makes it easier for your guests to enjoy the soup.
- In addition, you can add sliced hard-boiled eggs, chopped spring onions, and fried garlic bits to the sopas. You can put these condiments in separate bowls, so your guests can put as much as they like on their soup.
- The sopas is filling on its own. However, you can add side dishes such as puto with cheese, ube cheese pandesal, and bread rolls.
- Keep an extra pot of creamy chicken broth in the kitchen under low heat. Doing so lets you replenish the soup since the macaroni absorbs a lot of soup over time.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the English term of sopas?
The English term for sopas is soup. The term came from the Spanish plural word sopas, which means soup.
What type of soup is macaroni soup?
Macaroni soup is a type of chicken noodle soup. In the Philippines, the common macaroni soup is called sopas, which means soup. The inspiration for the dish came from American chicken noodle soup. The soup contains macaroni, milk, vegetables, and meat (usually chicken).
Is sopas a merienda?
Yes, sopas is a merienda dish. In the Philippines, merienda refers to snack. You can also serve sopas for breakfast. Additionally, you can easily find sopas in karinderias and canteens.
What is the difference sopa or caldo?
The difference between sopa and caldo is their main ingredients. Sopa means soup, while caldo means broth. In the Philippines, sopas refers to chicken soup, while caldo refers to rice porridge.
How do you keep sopas from getting soggy?
You can keep sopas from getting soggy by adding less macaroni. You can add as little as a quarter cup of uncooked macaroni for every one-liter chicken broth. Additionally, you can separate the macaroni from the soup after cooking. The macaroni absorbs a lot of liquid, so separating it means getting less soggy sopas.
Conclusion
This delicious and hearty sopas recipe keeps you warm during cold and rainy days. So what are you waiting for? Grab your kitchen tools now and start rocking that sopas!
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