ISO: Chicken Noodle Soup

[joelsgirl]

I want to find a really good recipe for chicken noodle soup. Anybody got one?

[mariewilcox]

This is how I always made it for DH and DS (DD and I are vegetarians so we make it without the chicken and have vegetable noodle soup) I have no exact measurements since I just toss everything in.

CURRIED CHICKEN SOUP (if you hate curry then omit it and use poultry seasoning instead, but if you like curry give it a try - it's awesome!)

Start with a nice big heavy-bottomed pot. Add a couple tablespoons of oil (I use olive or canola). Add 1 chopped onion, 3 sliced carrots, 2 stalks chopped celery, and 1 red bell pepper chopped. Season with about 1/4 teaspoon salt and pepper. Cook until onions are translucent. (You can adjust the amount of these vegetables to your taste).

Add your chunks of chicken that has already been cooked - however much you want. Add about 1 tablespoon curry powder (just the regular kind - not the red curry or green curry). Stir to mix.

Add about 4 cups stock (chicken stock in this case; if you are using chicken from a whole roasted chicken the best stock is from boiling the carcass with some vegetable odds and ends such as celery tops and carrot ends and onion skins. If not then store-bought stock is just fine) and about 2 cups water. I don't measure the water - I just add it until it looks like enough. Cover and simmer on low until vegetables are tender.

Add some green beans (frozen or fresh) and some noodles of your choice - I use whatever is on hand - broken up spaghetti, egg noodles, alphabet noodles, other shapes. Add salt and pepper to taste. Cover and cook until noodles are done.

You can also use rice or orzo instead of noodles.

[hollyxann]

If I could give you my mother's without her killing me I would...I don't even have it yet. It's the best.

I know that chicken on the bone is the key for starting it. And that carrots, onions, celery (the holy trinity as she calls it) are the only veggies she puts in it. The noodles sometimes vary.

[joelsgirl]

We love curry Marie! That sounds yum!

LOL, Holly Ann. Can't you just tell her that your scrapbook friend needs the recipe so that her kids can experience the best chicken noodle soup ever???

[nesser1981]

This is seriously the best Chicken Noodle Soup I've ever had. Made it last night and its wonderful! I love Paula Deen.

Ingredients
4 bay leaves
3 chicken bouillon cubes
1 onion, peeled and diced
1 teaspoon Paula Deen Lemon Pepper Seasoning
3 cloves garlic, minced
1 2 1/2 to 3-pound fryer (chicken), cut up
1 1/2 to 2 teaspoon Italian seasoning
3 1/2 quart water
kosher salt and pepper to taste

For Step 2:
2 cups sliced carrots
2 cups sliced celery, with leafy green tops
2 1/2 cups uncooked egg noodles
3 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
1 cup grated Parmesan cheese
3/4 cup heavy cream
1 cup sliced mushrooms
Fresh parsley
2 teaspoons chopped fresh rosemary
Paula Deen Seasoned Salt to taste
freshly ground black pepper to taste
crusty french bread, for serving

Directions

For the stock: add all ingredients to a soup pot. Cook until chicken is tender, about 35 to 45 minutes. Remove chicken from pot and set aside to cool. Remove and discard bay leaves and onion. You should have approximately 3 quarts of stock. When chicken is cool enough to touch, pick bones clean, discarding bones, skin, and cartilage. Set chicken aside.

For the soup: bring stock back to a boil, add carrots, and cook for 3 minutes. Add celery and continue to cook for 5 to 10 minutes. Add egg noodles and cook according to directions on package. When noodles are done, add chicken, mushrooms, parsley,and rosemary. Add Parmesan and cream, if using. Cook for another 2 minutes. Adjust seasoning, if needed, by adding seasoning salt and pepper. Enjoy along with a nice hot crusty loaf of French bread.


Recipe Courtesy of Paula Deen

[mariewilcox]

Awesome Kellie - my DD and I would eat curry in just about everything - LOL. I am thankful every day that she has always liked whatever I like at a very very young age - I never did believe in "kid food" and "adult food" - food is food!

The soup is best if you roast a chicken and use the meat from that, and even bestest if you take the meat off the cooked chicken and then make your own stock from the bones and bits of meat that are left on the carcass. I make a homemade vegetable stock and that makes it really awesome too, so do what you want!

[MamaBee]

The way my family has been making chicken soup for generations... is that you take a whole chicken, put it in a large pot with water, just about covering the chicken... boil the heck out of it (until the meat pretty much falls off the bones)... remove the chicken. Put back in the meat... add carrots, celery, onions, parsley (my mom always used dried) and if doing rice, add a cup of rice or so... cook until veggies and rice are tender. If not doing rice - you can make dumplings which are then dropped into the hot soup to "cook"... and when they are done - soup is done. Add salt and pepper to taste.

[scrapperjade]

This is my go to chicken soup recipe - seriously the best I've tried!! This one calls for rice, but you can easily toss in noodles instead!

The only other thing I would watch is the boullion cubes. She uses 8-10 cubes for hers (she must have smaller cubes than I do). I have to used 5, otherwise it's too salty. I just follow the directions on the boullion box when I'm measuring the water into the pot.

http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2...eep-ya-honest/

[Ethereal_sheep]

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Quick-a...up/Detail.aspx This one is fabulous!

Follow the first commenter's suggestions

[MandaT]

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Awesome...up/Detail.aspx

This is the one I usually start with & modify it just slighty depending on what I have on hand.