Today's Case:

Italian Chicken Soup

Re: Recipe Request
From: Anthony
Date: 10/3/2023, 11:36 AM
To: Phaedrus 


On 10/2/2023 4:30 PM, Anthony wrote:

Hello. I am looking for a recipe that I THINK was from La Cucina Italiana magazine.  
We made it for a holiday dinner and are nostalgic for it. It was a brodo of clear 
broth, and FINELY diced vegetables and chicken that had been, I believe, made into 
a mousse, set and then it too was finely diced to match the vegetables. If I am not 
mistaken this issue had MORE than 1 brodo recipe in the issue.  It was NOT just 
poached chicken, I believe we seasoned the chicken, pureed it, let it set and then 
cut up into fine diced cubes to match the small veggies. Hope you can help or 
someone might have seen this recipe in the past.

Thanks so much!!!
Anthony

Hello Anthony,

I did not have any success searching for a particular issue of La Cucina Italiana magazine that contained multiple "brodo" recipes. Your description of making the soup is not very helpful. That procedure could be the beginning of many, many Italian soup recipes. Your soup probably had a specific name, not just "brodo." "Brodo" or "brodo di pollo" is just chicken broth or chicken soup, Italian Style. It's the base for a lot of soups, but most of them have various added ingredients, usually pasta or vegetables. Optimally, if you can recall the specific name of your soup, I might have some success. Without that, I'm not having any luck. There is a lot of variety - I can't identify it without specifics - the more, the better. "Finely diced" is just not enough.

I will post this, but unless someone has that issue of La Cucina Italiana with all of the brodo recipes and unless they can deduce which particular recipe you are describing, then I would not have much hope.

If there are no responses, then your best option might be to email La Cucina Italiana magazine. You can get their address from their website.They may not give you a recipe, but if you ask (beg), they might tell you which issue it was in. If they won't send you that back issue, maybe you can find it for sale on Ebay or one of the other sites that sell back issues of magazine.

La Cucina Italiana has a Facebook page here: La Cucina Italiana USA and a website at: La Cucina Italiana

Phaed

On 10/3/2023 11:39 AM, Anthony wrote:

thank you. After nearly 3 weeks, I found the actual menu I created in 2009 and it had 
the name of the soup so I found that and translated it into English. I appreciate you 
trying, thankfully I am all set.

Anthony

On October 3, 2023 at 11:31 AM, Phaedrus (phaedrus@hungrybrowser.com) wrote:

Hello Anthony,

What was the name of the soup? Where did you find the recipe? Please send me the recipe or the url.

Thanks,

Phaed

Re: Recipe Request
From: Anthony 
Date: 10/3/2023, 12:35 PM
To: Phaedrus 

Dadolata di Pollo 

AA

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Translated and transcribed:

Dadolata di Pollo 

Time: 35min
6 servings

Ingredients
peeled vegetables (celery, carrot and courgette) 40 g per type
clean chicken breast 100 g
100 g fresh cream
an egg white
butter
salt
pepper

Method
For the diced chicken, blend the chicken pulp with the cream, egg white, salt and pepper. 
Butter a baking tray, line it with baking paper, butter it too and spread the mixture to 
approximately 1 cm. Bake at 130°C for 25 minutes, then remove from the oven and cut into 
cubes. Cut all the vegetables into tiny cubes, add them to the broth with the diced and 
serve immediately.