Chicken stock powder - without the chicken (Alyce Alexander)

[JulieO]

Thought this sounds interesting.  Has anyone made it?

https://www.alycealexandra.com/thermomix/2020/5/1/alyces-thermomix-chicken-stock-powder-without-the-chicken

[judydawn]

I’ve almost made it LOL.  I haven’t got any celery seeds and I haven’t been able to find them in Woolies or Drakes.  Everything else is in a bowl waiting for that ingredient.  My DD is vegetarian so I wanted to make a chicken soup with some to see if it tastes like chicken, it would be so handy for her to add flavour to her food.

[Cuilidh]

I also saw this recipe and plan to make it.  Like you, Judy, I couldn't find celery seeds but I see that Alyce now stocks this item.  I actually got my hands on some celery salt at Vic market so will substitute with this and see how it tastes.

[JulieO]

Yes Coles and Woolies don't seem to stock the celery seeds any more.  On spice sites I see they are a product of India, so maybe if you have any Indian grocers nearby you might find them there? Otherwise the place below sells them and their postage is only $3.50 regardless on how many things you buy.  I've bought from them quite a few times, so if you need any flours, grains, seeds etc it's a good time to stock up at only $3.50 delivery.  They are based in WA so will take a couple of weeks at the moment to get to you, so I'd certainly try Indian grocers first. 

https://2brothersfoods.com/spices/celery-seeds?zenid=RmJDBFWyTrnaSsWqtYafh2

[judydawn]

Thanks Julie, I had a quick look before I went for my haircut (finally) and I saw several things on the list that I need and cannot buy at local supermarkets at the moment so later I’ll send an order through.  No hurry for the celery seeds so delivery time is OK by me.

[JulieO]

That's good to hear Judy. They seem like a good mob. 

[cookie1]

I saw this too and was wondering about it. I actually have some celery seeds so can go ahead.

[Cuilidh]

I'll be interested in hearing what you think, Cookie.

[judydawn]

I’ve just finished making this stock powder as Katie brought some celery seeds around for me prior to my order being delivered.  I haven’t anything to cook to use it at the moment so I put 2 tsp in a mug of boiling water and it’s so full of flavour as I expected.  A great one for our vegetarians although anyone can use it, I certainly will be trying it when chicken stock is called for.

[JulieO]

That's great to hear Judy, I will make up a half a batch in the coming days as I have everything ready to go.  I'm thinking it may be nice to add a tsp or 2 to things just as a flavour boost too.  You can usually rely on AA's recipes.
Nice of Katie to give you some seeds too instead of having to wait. 

[judydawn]

I agree Julie, a flavour boost like Tenina’s umami paste.  It does make a lot so half quantity makes sense.  I’ll give some of mine away.  2 minutes seemed a long time to grind all the herbs etc down to a powder.

[cookie1]

I set out to make this a couple of days ago and although I have celery seeds I didn’t have nutritional yeast. 🙄🙄🙄🙄

[judydawn]

Would you like me to post some over to you cookie, my packet is large enough to share.

[Cuilidh]

I made this at the weekend as well, but didn't have celery seeds ... I used something called Australian chicken salt instead so I will end up with an entirely different product.  Will try it next weekend.

[judydawn]

I’m quite happy with this stock powder after using it to make my Potato & Sweetcorn soup today         https://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=911.msg4917#msg4917 instead of liquid chicken stock. I did have to add some salt at the end though.