Easy Homemade Chicken Soup
When the weather gets cold and the days get shorter, a warm bowl of homemade chicken soup is perfect. This classic chicken soup recipe is a true comfort food. It's great for when you're feeling under the weather or just want something cozy.
Equipment
- 1 soup pot
- 1 skillet
Ingredients
- 2 cups chicken broth
- 5 medium potatoes
- 3 carrots
- 1 onion
- 3 celery sticks
- water
- 3 chicken breast or thighs
- 1 bag of cauliflower rice ( regular rice or egg noodles) optional
- salt, garlic powder, black pepper to taste
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 2 stems parsley
- 1 clove of garlic
Instructions
- Fill soup pot with 2 cups of chicken broth and add 2-3 cups of water, bring it to boil.
- Peel potatoes, carrots and onion. Cut potatoes to medium square pieces. Shred carrots, and dice onion into a small pieces.
- Cut chicken breast into a small pieces and put it with some oil to the frying pan, season with salt and pepper and powdered garlic. Let it sauté there covered with lid until almost done.
- Chop Celery sticks to the small pieces and put to the pot with boiling broth.
- Cut garlic clove in half and put it to the broth. Remove it when soup is ready to be served.
- Add chopped potatoes to the broth and cooked chicken breast from skillet.
- Heat butter in the frying pan than add diced onions and shredded carrots. Let them become caramelized. Than put them to the soup pot.
- Cauliflower rice should be added when everything is boiling in the soup pot. Let it boil together for 10 min on medium heat.
- Turn off the heat and add fresh chopped parsley.
- Serve and Enjoy!
Notes
- 1. If you do not have chicken broth on hand, You can make one with 3-4 chicken drumsticks. Boil them for 30-40 minutes with 1 stick of celery and onion.
- 2. Substituted cauliflower rice with regular white rice (better to be cooked before adding to the soup), or egg noodles.
- 3. Chicken breast can be substituted with thighs, or tenderloins.