Cook's Illustrated

Boosting Soup Flavor

Published January 1, 2009. From Cook's Illustrated.

The usual method for making chicken soup is to cover chicken parts with water and bring it to a boil. In our Hearty Chicken Noodle Soup recipe, we found that using ground chicken rather than parts gave our soup significantly more flavor. Could we back up these subjective results with empirical evidence?

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