Learn how to make your very own homemade Grace inspired cock soup mix using herbs and spices to add to your Jamaican chicken soup.
Have you ever wondered how or if it is even possible to make your own cock soup mix. Well the answer is yes, you can! I have a great solution for you, a DIY soup mix, that is made from scratch using flour/starch, herbs and spices. It all comes together in a matter of minutes.
What is cock soup mix
In short, cock soup mix is a dried chicken soup flavour enhancer and thickener. Many Jamaicans and other Caribbean depend on this mixture to finalise their meat based soup.
My family would also use this to finish off our soup and the soup would be full of flavour, texture with a unique colour to it. I must admit no Jamaican chicken soup would be the same without adding this.
However, as I got older I began to be more conscious of certain ingredients and how my body would respond to them. After reading the ingredients list of cock soup I knew it would be more beneficial to my health to make my own.
Making your own cock soup mix
Admittedly, I wanted to omit the cock soup mix and I actually tried making some chicken soup using chicken stock and adding the usual ingredients – chicken pieces, herbs, root vegetables and dumpling. The results wasn’t that great, first of all, the soup didn’t have any body to it plus it lacked that punchy flavour and there was no colour to the soup.
I knew straight away this wasn’t going to work and based on the feedback that I got from my family. I needed to head back to the drawing board and make my own chicken soup mix.
After doing some trial and error with herbs, spices, flour and starch. I came up with my own homemade chicken soup enhancer that works just as good as what is in the supermarkets.
The taste, texture and colour when added to soup really works so well. I’m happy and confident that you will love it as much as I do.
Reasons to make your own cock soup from scratch
- You know what ingredients are in the soup mixture
- Most of the ingredients are widely available and easy to source
- It’s cheaper to make your own from scratch
Ingredients that you will need
- Brown rice flour
- Cornmeal or tapioca starch
- A few strands of gluten free spaghetti/noodle
- Turmeric
- Onion powder/granules
- Thyme
- Parsley
- Garlic
- Black pepper
- Paprika
- Celery
- Chilli
- Pink salt
How to make Grace inspired cock soup mix
- Place all of the ingredients in a spice/coffee grinder (can mix by hand)
- Pulse into a fine powder like consistency then add the spaghetti/noodle strands
- Store in a glass jar and use accordingly
Notes and tips
- This cock soup mix makes 10 tablespoons in total
- Brown rice flour is gluten free, but you can use any other wheat free flour if you don’t have or want to use brown rice flour.
- Tapioca starch is a clean starch and a highly recommended starch to you use. Fine cornmeal also works just aswell if you don’t any to hand (organic if possible)
- For best results include both flour and starch as they will help to give texture to your soup
- Celery salt and chilli are optional, not a deal breaker if you don’t have them.
Grace inspired cock soup mix
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp Brown rice flour
- 2 tbsp cornmeal or tapioca starch
- A few strands of gluten free spaghetti/noodles broken into small pieces (see picture)
- 2 1/2 tsp turmeric
- 1 tsp onion powder/granules
- 1 tsp thyme
- 1 tsp parsley
- 1 tsp garlic
- 1 tsp black pepper
- 1 tsp paprika
- 1/8 tsp celery salt optional
- 1/8 tsp chilli optional
- 1/2 tbsp pink salt
Instructions
- Place all of the ingredients in a spice/coffee grinder (can mix by hand)
- Pulse into a fine powder like consistency then add the spaghetti/noodle strands
- Store in a glass jar and use accordingly
Notes
- Brown rice flour is gluten free, but you can use any other wheat free flour if you don't have or want to use brown rice flour.
- Tapioca starch is a clean starch and a highly recommended starch to you use
- For best results include both flour and starch as they will help to give texture to your soup
- Celery salt and chilli are optional, not a deal breaker if you don't have them.
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