Wonder Soup
If you haven’t made Wonder Soup you’ve missed a treat.
What’s Wonder Soup?
My sister calls rotisserie chicken Wonder Chicken. I think because these readily available, already-cooked, chickens make a quick and easy dinner. Thus, a wonder! I was at her home once and couldn’t believe how after dinner she just pitched the leftover bones along with the packaging. She missed the chance to get another meal out of her Wonder Chicken… Wonder Soup.
I guess you have to be a little obsessed with saving money and eliminating food waste to want to make Wonder Soup. Also, you need to take a little time to cook, which you may not have if you’ve just grabbed a Wonder Chicken for dinner. But I think one of the best parts of a rotisserie chicken is the Wonder Soup.
Several years ago I wrote a series of articles for this blog on rotisserie chicken:
- Rotisserie Chicken What's The Tradeoff
- More Than A Simple Chicken
- Tale of Two Chickens Cost Comparison
- Seduced By A Chicken
- these chickens are usually sold by the “piece” not by the pound—it may look like they are all the same size, but the starting weights (and thusly the net weights) of rotisserie chickens vary.
- costs also vary from store-to-store and the cost does not appear based on the size of the chicken.
- one chicken usually feeds 4-6 people. On the average, a 3 pound roasted chicken should yield 1 ½ to 1 ¾ pounds of boneless meat.
- seasonings and added ingredients on rotisserie chicken also vary from store to store.
- the nutritional basics of protein, fat, calories and cholesterol in a rotisserie chicken are similar to a home-roasted chicken. The major difference is in the sodium content in a rotisserie chicken. A 4-ounce serving of rotisserie chicken contains about 750 mg of sodium (compared to 72 mg in a home-roasted unsalted chicken).