Uploaded February 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago
Get the recipe for Somali Chicken Soup here: bit.ly/3Qb0LFR
This is the only chicken soup recipe you’ll ever need—it’s our moms’ favorite chicken soup, and it’s the soup we make for our ailing friends. It’s also a master class in chicken soups.
Taught to us by our friend Nimco Mahamud-Hassan, it’s based on the Somali soup maraq cad, known for its finishing touches—here, heaps of crisp-crunchy radishes and cabbage, and perked up with a cut of lime juice and two kinds of spicy berbere sauce. You’ll learn why hot sauce belongs on soup! And how to build a flavor base from aromatics and spices; how to build a broth from water; and how to use your herb leaves and your stems.
Milk Street Cooking School director Rosie Gill is here with one of Milk Street’s all-time best recipes.
0:00 How to flavor broth with onions and browning
2:47 How to create chicken broth from water
3:25 How to make homemade hot sauce
5:43 How to toast spices (and why you should)
8:27 How to garnish chicken soup
Get the recipe for Somali Chicken Soup here: bit.ly/3Qb0LFR
This is the only chicken soup recipe you’ll ever need—it’s our moms’ favorite chicken soup, and it’s the soup we make for our ailing friends. It’s also a master class in chicken soups.
Taught to us by our friend Nimco Mahamud-Hassan, it’s based on the Somali soup maraq cad, known for its finishing touches—here, heaps of crisp-crunchy radishes and cabbage, and perked up with a cut of lime juice and two kinds of spicy berbere sauce. You’ll learn why hot sauce belongs on soup! And how to build a flavor base from aromatics and spices; how to build a broth from water; and how to use your herb leaves and your stems.
Milk Street Cooking School director Rosie Gill is here with one of Milk Street’s all-time best recipes.
0:00 How to flavor broth with onions and browning
2:47 How to create chicken broth from water
3:25 How to make homemade hot sauce
5:43 How to toast spices (and why you should)
8:27 How to garnish chicken soup
