My recipe of the day is for homemade chicken noodle soup made by poaching a whole chicken and using thin egg noodles as the pasta.
This is a joint event for national Soup Swap Day with Festive Foodies and Soup Saturday Swappers (which I am hosting this month). So make sure you get to see the recipes from both groups, one accessible by clicking the link to inlinks and the other listed on the page.
This makes a nice brothy soup- sort of like you might expect from canned chicken noodle soup, at least with the noodles, except they don't really put too much meat in theirs, do they? Plus the broth in this is much better tasting. And you know exactly what is going into this clean eating soup.
Perfect for nourishing your tribe on a cold snowy day or feeding them when they have the sniffles, colds, or flu. I hope not, but a bowl of Mom's chicken noodle soup goes a long way not only in keeping them healthy, but restoring their health if that has gone south.
I like to have this anyway, often as part of a lunch, with something like a turkey club sandwich on toast. Even a grilled cheese will hit the spot.
Stay warm this weekend! We are getting blasted with snow and ice today. But at least we have our snow day soup!
Season chicken and place in a stock pot.
Stuff the onion inside the chicken cavity.
Bring chicken to a boil, then reduce heat, cover, and simmer/poach for 90 minutes; then allow to cool in the broth.
Remove chicken meat from the carcass, discarding the skin; save the bones for making more stock later if desired (you can freeze), or add the bones to the stock and continue to cook and fortify.
Chill broth and then skim off any fat that surfaces.
Saute the onion, carrot, celery and garlic in the olive oil at the bottom of your soup pot until the onion is translucent.
Stir in the herbs and seasonings along with the broth- if you don't quite have enough, top up with water; stir in the chicken base.
Bring broth to a rolling boil and stir in the noodles.
Cook for 12-14 minutes, depending on the noodle size and type you use; they should be tender.
Stir in the chopped chicken and just heat through.
Adjust salt to your taste before serving.
There isn't a soup more satisfying than Chicken Noodle! It would be just what is needed on a cold and wet day.
Definitely! And we are under a winter storm warning here today!
Homemade chicken noodle soup is the absolute best comfort food for the winter, isn't it?
There is nothing better in this world than a hot bowl of good chicken noodle soup!
I can't wait to try this recipe. My son loves chicken noodle soup and I still haven't found a recipe that has wowed me. Thanks for linking up to the Celebrate 365 Soup Swap!
The perfect soup for warming up and staying healthy during a cold blustery winter.
Such a classic – it doesn't get better than this! Thanks for celebrating National Soup Swap Day with us!
This almost makes me wish I was under the weather…just so I'd have a really good excuse to make it!