Quick Chicken Noodle Soup

Submitted by JillAZ

"From "The Best Freezer Cookbook". This is a very simple soup. My kids actually prefer it with no carrots or peas. Just chicken and noodles. I find the noodles I use in the kosher section of my supermarket."

 

• Ready In: 30mins
• Ingredients: 9
• Serves: 4

ingredients

• 2 tablespoons butter
• 1 cup diced carrot
• 4 green onions, sliced
• 5 cups chicken broth
• 1 bay leaf
• salt and pepper
• 4 ounces very thin egg noodles
• 1 cup diced cooked chicken
• 1⁄2 cup frozen peas

directions

1. In a large saucepan, melt butter over medium heat.
2. Add carrots and cook for 3 minutes.
3. Add green onions then broth, bayleaf, salt and pepper.
4. Bring to a boil, reduce heat, cover and simmer for 5 minutes or until carrots are almost done.
5. Bring back to a boil and add noodles, chicken and peas.
6. Simmer for 5 minutes or until noodles are tender.
7. Remove bay leaf and taste for seasoning.
8. Serve.
9. To freeze: I freeze this by adding the chicken and peas in step 5 but not adding the noodles until I reheat it. They tend to absorb a lot of the broth. You can add them before freezing, just add more broth upon thawing and heating. Cool, ladle into freezer containers. Seal, label and freeze for up to 3 months.
10. Thaw in microwave or overnight in the fridge.

Reviews

[Shahana]

Very nice - I made a few changes such as using 2 teaspoons of margarine instead of 2 tablespoons of butter; I did not add more salt and I used thinly sliced celery instead of frozen peas, the noodles I used were spaghettini. I also let the finished soup sit on very low heat for about 1 hr. after cooking and before serving. Having said all that - is it the same recipe??? I believe it is and the changes were in part my taste/health and in part an experiment (that worked)

 

[Chef de Sucre]

Thanks for a quick recipe. I made this at the last minute upon the request of my hubby who was fighting a cold and it turned out great. Very nice flavor. I did not add the green onions, since I didn't have any on hand and used whole wheat angel hair spaghetti, but other than that, followed the recipe.

 

[Beckster1496]

Very good! My DH is fighting a bad cold and requested some chicken soup. Since he's not a campbell's fan, I knew I could find a good one at zaar...And that I did. Quick, easy, and delicious. I didn't have peas so I didn't add them. To make the process quicker, I shredded the carrots in my food processor. thx for a qreat, quick recipe!!!

 

[Loves2Teach]

I made this tonight for my dh who recently had dental surgery. I have to say that it was very easy to throw together, but I had 2 problems with the recipe (which is why I did not give the recipe 5 stars). First, it took closer to 10 minutes for my carrots to get tender. Second, there was not near enough chicken broth for all of my other ingredients. I ended up adding an additional cup (and could have possibly added more). Thanks for sharing though, it was verrry easy!