Top Rated Chicken Noodle Soup

This recipe came from a Southern Living cookbook. It was so perfect the way the cookbook said to make it, that I kept it just that way.

• Ready In: 2 hrs 35 mins
• Yields: 10 cups

Ingredients

• 1 (3 -4 lb)  broiler-fryer chickens
• 8 -10  cups water
• 1  bay leaf
• 1  tablespoon  chopped fresh parsley
• 1 1⁄4 teaspoons salt
• 1⁄4 teaspoon pepper
• 1⁄4 teaspoon dried basil
• 1⁄8 teaspoon celery seed
• 1⁄8 teaspoon garlic powder
• 4  medium carrots, chopped
• 1  small onion, chopped
• 1  cup  uncooked  fine egg noodles

Directions

1. Combine first 9 ingredients in a large Dutch oven. Bring to aboil, cover, reduce heat and simmer 1/2 hours or until tender. remove chicken from broth, discard bay leaf. remove skin, bone chicken, and dice meat; set aside.
2. Add carrot and onion to broth; cover and simmer 30 minutes. Add chicken and noodles, cook an additional 15 minutes.