Easy, Classic Chicken Noodle Soup

paula

11 years ago

Easy, simple homemade chicken noodle soup is great on a cold day and/or when you have a cold.

If you have cooked chicken and homemade stock/broth in the freezer, you can easily have truly made from scratch chicken soup whenever you want. If not, you can either cook it all that day or supplement with store cooked chicken and quality commercially packaged stock.

Recipe: Easy, Classic Chicken Noodle Soup

Ingredients:

1 tsp. olive oil
1 tsp. butter
1 onion, diced
3 carrots, sliced
2 celery. sliced thin
1 tsp. thyme
1 bay leaf
1 quart chicken stock or broth (homemade or low soduim)
1 – 2 c. chopped or shredded cooked chicken (about 1/2 of a 3 -4 pound whole chicken)
6 +/- oz. egg noodles
salt, to taste
pepper, to taste

Instructions:

Add olive oil and butter to a pot or dutch oven over medium high heat.
Once butter is melted add onion, carrots, and celery.
While cooking vegetables, add thyme and about 1/2 tsp. salt.
When vegetables have softened, add stock and bay leaf.
Taste for seasoning and add more salt.
After stock boils, add noodles and chicken.
Taste again for seasoning when noodles are almost cooked and make additions as necessary.
Remove bay leaf before serving.

Enjoy!