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Homemade chicken soup is the best comfort food! It’s the perfect healthy recipe to make when someone in the house is sick.

Chicken soup is one of the best comfort foods around. It’s an easy, one-dish meal that warms you up and makes you feel better when the winter chill sets in.

This homemade chicken soup recipe is the perfect thing to make when you have leftover chicken. You can use brown rice, whole wheat noodles, or any type of grain to make your chicken soup hearty. I’ve been using a quinoa-rice blend that I got at Costco, and it adds a great texture. You can include other vegetables like green beans or broccoli if you have them on hand.

Try this soup the next time someone in your house is sick, or freeze it ahead of time for a day when you really need it.

Check out my chipotle tortilla soup or my ratatouille casserole for another easy comfort food meal.

Prep Time:15

Cook Time:30

Total Time:45

Recommended Equipment

large pot

Ingredients

2 tbs olive oil
1 onion diced
2 carrots chopped
2 celery stalks chopped
3 cups shredded cooked chicken
8 cups chicken broth
1 cup quinoa/rice blend or brown rice

Instructions

Heat the olive oil over medium heat in a large pot. Add the onion, lower the heat to medium low, and cook with the cover on for 3 minutes. Add the carrots and celery to the pot, and cook with the cover on for another 5 minutes, or until the carrots and celery are beginning to get tender.
Add the chicken, broth, and rice (or rice quinoa blend) to the pot. Bring to a boil, and then reduce the heat to low. Simmer gently for 20 minutes, or as long as it takes to cook the rice blend.
If the soup is thicker than you prefer, add a cup or two of water to make it thinner. Also, taste the soup to see if it needs a little salt. This will depend on how much salt is in your broth.

Approximate Nutrition Info

Servings:

Calories: 176kcal

Author: Annemarie Rossi

Cost: $.78 per serving

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