Homemade Condensed Cream of Chicken or Mushroom or Celery Soup

AngieME's Note:

You have these ingredients already. So save yourself a trip to the store, some money, and some sodium. Here's a flavorful condensed cream of chicken soup base recipe for use in dishes that call for canned creamed soups. Use instead of condensed canned cream soups in recipes. Just add the ingredient that forms the basis of the soup. Chop mushrooms, sauté in a bit of olive oil and add for cream of mushroom soup. Add chicken for cream of chicken soup. Chop & sauté celery for, you guessed it, cream of celery. (As found at tammysrecipes.com/homemade_cream_chicken_soup ) Yields 3 cups -- about 2 (10.5 oz) cans of condensed cream of 'whatever'.

• Total Time: 20 mins
• Prep Time: 10 mins
• Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients:

Serves: 6

Yield: 2.0 cans

• 1 ½ cups chicken broth
• ½ teaspoon poultry , seasoning*
• ¼ teaspoon onion powder
• ¼ teaspoon garlic powder
• 1⁄8; teaspoon black pepper
• ¼ teaspoon salt (or less, taste to test)
• ¼ teaspoon parsley
• 1 dash paprika
• 1 ½ cups milk
• ¾ cup flour

Directions:

1. 1. In medium-sized saucepan, boil chicken broth, 1/2 cup of the milk, and the seasonings for a minute or two (longer if using fresh onions or garlic).
2. 2. In a bowl, whisk together the remaining 1 cup of milk and flour. Add to boiling mixture and continue whisking briskly until mixture boils and thickens.
3. 3. Add the ingredient that forms the basis of the soup. Chop mushrooms, saute in a bit of olive oil and add for cream of mushroom soup. Add chicken for cream of chicken soup.
4. *Don't have poultry seasoning? Make your own like I did -- try the recipezaar Homemade Poultry Seasoning - Homemade Poultry Seasoning.
5. This is awesome in my posted recipe "Easy Chicken & Noodles -- the Best" Easy Chicken & Noodles -- the Best. It makes that recipe not quite as easy, but less salty and more delicious. I would double this recipe and freeze extra if using it for that purpose.

Reviews

[ame589]

This recipe is great! I had to use soy milk and it still turned out awesome! This is definitely going to be made again! Thank you!

[LightEra]

Wow! Honestly, I'm really surprised at how well it turned out - really flavorful with all those spices. I think next time I might experiment with cornstarch for thickener instead of the flour because it was a tiny bit grainy, but it was great for Thanksgiving green bean casserole. I've used cream of X soup recipes several times before, but never have I been so pleased with the results. I think my search for a go-to recipe is over.

[Andi of Longmeadow Farm]

Holy cow! This is perfect, and I hope to keep making this in the future. Perfect, I had my own chicken broth and went from there! I also used skim milk, and it worked great! I added mushrooms to mine and also minced garlic for a garlic/mushroom soup. I didn't even put the mushrooms in the olive oil, just dumped em' in, and they cooked absolutely into perfection. Great recipe! Thx!