Chicken Barley Soup

Chicken Barley Soup

(4 servings)

6 C Water

4 chicken thighs with skin removed

3 C sliced carrots

1 C sliced celery

1 C diced onion

1/2 C barley

2-3 garlic cloves

1 bay leaf

1/2 bunch parsley (chopped)

1 tsp. dried rosemary

Salt and pepper to taste

Combine all but last three ingredients in large pot and bring to boil. Simmer for about 40 minutes or until chicken is tender.

Remove chicken from bones and slice into strips and return to soup.

Add last three ingredients.

Optionally:

Use instead slices of rotisserie chicken at time of last ingredients

Could use cayenne and cumin to spice up.