Chicken soup

Chicken soup (kotosoupa in greek) is the soup that drives crazy my kids especially when their grandmother cook it, using a chicken brought from a friend of her village. It's a soup that warms your heart during cold winter days, when you are ill, or when you are a kid :)
Some friends cook it using also vegetables, but I will give you today the original recipe, the way that my mother is cooking that I consider traditional greek, as she comes from a small village in the middle of Greece.
I won't tell you that it was delicious today, as I was out of table salt and I added "gros sel"/large salt and apparently I added too much... imagine the result!


Ingredients

1 chicken (bio and of good quality)
1 cup of rice (round and also of good quality)
salt, pepper, olive oil (1/2 cup approx.)
some butter
lemon juice
1 eggs

Procedure

Wash and prepare the chicken. Put it in a big casserole and fill with water up to the middle. Add salt, pepper and olive oil.

Cover and boil for about 45 min or 15min in the pressure cooker if you are in a hurry.

Take the chicken out and put it in an oven dish adding some of the chicken broth. Using a brush, cover the chicken with some butter and put it in the oven (200/fan) for about 15min.



TIP: If you do not have a whole chicken, once the meat is boiled cut it in small pieces and put it back in the casserole.
Put the casserole with the chicken broth to boil and add the rice. Leave it to boil slowly for about 15 min.

Get the juice of a lemon and a cup of the chicken broth. Beat an egg well with a fork and continue adding slowly and alternatively some broth and some lemon juice.

When you finish mixing them, add also this lemon-egg mixture to the rice in the casserole, mix well and cook for 5 more minutes. Your soup is ready! Serve it with some fresh ground pepper and the roasted chicken.