Ingredients
Units Scale
- 4 - 5 lb. whole fresh chicken (see notes)
- 1 medium onion (finely chopped)
- 1/2 cup chopped celery
- 4 quarts water
- 6 cups fresh corn (frozen may be substituted)
- 1 tablespoon dried parsley
- salt and pepper to taste
- 3 hard boiled eggs, peeled and chopped
For Rivels:
- 2 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 large eggs
Instructions
- Place chicken roaster, onion and celery in a Dutch oven
or stock pot and cover with water. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat, cover and cook for about 1 hour or until chicken is cooked through. - Remove chicken from the broth. Allow to cool to touch and cut into desired size pieces.
- Meanwhile, shuck corn and cut corn off the cobs. Here’s a tool similar to what I use.
- With heat on medium add corn kernels to the broth and cook for about 5 minutes until corn is tender. Add chicken back into soup. Stir in the parsley, season with salt and pepper to taste. Bring to a low boil.
- Meanwhile, in a small bowl, combine flour, raw egg, and salt to make rivels. Using a fork, mix by hand until it is the consistency of crumbs. Add a little extra flour if the dough is too sticky.
- Slowly add the rivels to the boiling soup, crumbling them in by hand while stirring constantly. Cook for about five minutes.
- Stir in hard-boiled eggs. Ladle into bowls and enjoy.
Notes
Your store or butcher may refer to it as a whole chicken, young chicken, roasting chicken or frying chicken. Look for one about 5 lbs.
The rivels are stress free. If you make them small they will need less time to cook. If you make them larger they will need a little extra time.
Don’t crowd them in all at once. Make sure to slowly add them bit by bit, so they can cook throughly. Be sure to stir continuously.
- Prep Time: 30 minutes
- Cook Time: 1 hour 15 minutes
- Category: Dinner, Lunch, Soup
- Cuisine: Lunch or Dinner


