25th Dish Ciorba De Pui (Spring Chicken Soup) from Romanian

This has to be the worst dish I’ve cooked so far! I’m not sure where I went wrong if at all, I followed the instructions to the letter. Maybe the chicken pieces were a little too big but it totally lacked flavour. 

Ingredients

2 lbs. chicken (approx.)

1 tbsp. butter

2 tbsp. flour

2 small cloves garlic

1 egg yolk

1/2 cup sweet cream

1/2 lemon juice

salt and pepper to taste

Instructions

Place pieces of cleaned chicken in cold water to cover.

Slowly bring to a boil and simmer, covered, adding salt and very little pepper.

Melt butter, add flour, blend well and brown very lightly.

Add about a cup of cold water slowly, stirring until smooth.

Add this to the soup when chicken is almost done.

Crush garlic to paste consistency, add cold water to dissolve it and add the water to the soup and simmer a few more minutes,

Put aside when done.

Beat egg yolk, add cream and stir well and add to soup only after it was removed from flame.

Add lemon juice.

Serve with toasted bread cubes, crackers, croutons and the pieces of chicken in the soup.

There’s not much else I can say about this apart from we gave it a poor 3 out of 10. Won’t be cooking this again in a hurry.