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A serving bowl full of chicken foot soup.

Chicken Foot Soup

Chicken foot soup is a delicious soup with a split pea and pumpkin base then filled with chicken feet, dumplings, root vegetables and fresh herbs and spices.
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 40 minutes
Resting time 7 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 2 minutes
Servings: 32
Course: Soup
Cuisine: Caribbean
Calories: 185

Ingredients
  

  • 1 pound of chicken paws
  • 1/2 cup split peas
  • 10 cups water
  • 1 stalk corn cob cubed up
  • 1 pound pumpkin cubed small
  • 1 pack of pumpkin soup
  • 1 large carrot sliced up
  • 1 celery stalk sliced up
  • 1/2 large onion chopped up
  • 4 cloves garlic
  • 1 small christohpene/cho cho cubed
  • 1 small sweet potato cubed

Method
 

  1. Soak the split peas in water over night if possible.
  2. Remove nails from chicken feet, and remove any discoloring if any.
  3. Place in a bowl with water and about a tablespoon of vinegar or lime juice and some pepper sauce. Let that soak for about 10 minutes.
  4. Throw that water off the chicken and give it another rinse.
  5. In a large pot, add the chicken feet, split peas, cubed pumpkin, onions, garlic, peppers, thyme, soup pack, scallion, celery, all spice, black pepper and 6 cups of water.
  6. Boil this for for 25 minutes until the pumpkin and split peas are tender.
  7. Make your dumplings while the chicken is boiling.
  8. Once tender you can use your immersion blender to blend up the soup. Or remove 3/4 of the broth and add it to a blender. Return the blended broth to the rest of the mixture.
  9. Add 2 more cups water and add the corn, christophene, and sweet potato and let that come to a boil.
  10. Add dumplings once boiling and add salt.
  11. Test for salt and pepper.
  12. Once dumplings are floating to the top they are cooked.
  13. Soup is ready to be served.

Nutrition

Calories: 185kcal

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