CHICKEN & SOUTHERN-STYLE NOODLES

Steps:

• Dice celery, carrots and onion and place in large stock pot.
• Add chicken breast, 6 cups chicken broth and 5 cups water, basil, salt and pepper to taste and 2 TBS butter.
• Bring to a boil then turn to medium to medium high heat and boil for 1 1/2 hour.
• While chicken is boiling make noodles.
• In large mixing bowl add 2 cups flour, parsley, eggs, 2 pinches of salt and 1/2 tsp ground pepper, shortening and stir.
• Once dough starts to form flour both hands and knead. Keep adding additional flour a little at a time until the dough quits sticking to your hands.
• Turn dough onto floured surface and with a floured rolling pin roll to 1/8 inch thickness.
• Using a pizza cutter cut noddles into thin 1 - 1 1/2 inch strips
• Lightly dust with flour.
• Sprinkle with onion powder.
• Cover with paper towels and let dry.
• Take chicken out of pot and let cool then de-bone and shred using two forks to shred
• Add chicken back to pot and bring back to a boil.
• Add the additional chicken broth and water and bring back up to a boil.
• Add noodles one at a time quickly to pot.
• In a small dish mix the cornstarch and cold water and make into a slurry then add to stock pot.
• Stir noodles every couple minutes to keep noodles from sticking to each other and cook for 20-30 minutes.
• Take one noodle out and taste to see if it's done which you can tell by it's firmness and less floury taste.