Chicken & Beer Soup

• This is my second Polish soup which uses beer.
• It is quite different from my first recipe – more savoury.

INGREDIENTS 

• 4 rashers of smoked bacon
• 250g of cooked chicken (roast or poached) – shredded
• 500ml of chicken/vegetable stock (from powder or cube is fine)
• 400ml of light larger type Polish beer (I used Tyskie)
• 2 tablespoons of butter
• 1 tablespoon of plain flour
• 1 teaspoon of hot paprika or cayenne pepper
• 2 teaspoons of paprika
• 125ml of Greek style yoghurt
• I doubt if any extra salt will be needed

METHOD

• Cook the bacon in a frying pan or grill.
• Chop the bacon into small pieces.
• Add this to the stock.
• Melt butter and add the flour and the 2 types of paprika.
• Stir well till combined.
• Add this to the stock.
• Bring to boil then simmer for 10 minutes,
• Add the beer
• Bring back to the boil and simmer for another 10 minutes.
• Add yoghurt
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• Serve with rye bread croutons.