Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup
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4.6
Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup
Description
This soup starts by simmering a whole chicken with peeled carrots, onion, and celery in water, producing a rich broth as the chicken cooks through slowly. Removing the foam during boiling avoids cloudiness in the soup. After cooking about an hour, the chicken is removed to cool and the vegetables discarded, leaving a clear broth infused with chicken flavor.
Egg noodles are added to the strained broth before serving, providing body and texture. Fresh chopped parsley adds a mild herbal note and color. Salt and black pepper season the soup, adjustable to personal taste. The result is a classic comfort food with a balance of savory broth, tender meat, and soft noodles.
Leftover cooked chicken from the recipe can be repurposed into chicken salad. For storage, the soup can be refrigerated for several days or frozen without noodles to preserve texture. Reheating is best done gently on the stove. The recipe captures a traditional approach to a homemade chicken noodle soup with rich flavor and clear broth.
Ingredients
- 4 pound chicken with skin and bones, whole
- 2 medium carrot peeled
- 1 medium onion skin removed
- 2 talks celery
- 4 quarts water
- 2 cups egg noodles dry, about 4 oz
- 1 chicken bouillon cube or 1 tbsp vegeta
- 1 teaspoon salt or to taste
- 1 teaspoon black pepper or to taste
- ¼ cup parsley fresh, chopped
Instructions
- Remove the bag of gizzards from the inside. Place the chicken in a big soup pot, you'll need at least a 5 qt pot, and add enough water to cover the chicken. Add the whole onion, whole carrots and celery sticks to the pot. Make sure there's enough water to cover the vegetables. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat.
- Once it comes to a boil, you will notice a dirty foam floating around the top of the pot, use a skimmer to skim that out. This will ensure that you get a clear soup. Keep skimming the foam until there's no more left. Reduce the heat to medium-low, cover with a lid and cook for about 1 hour, the carrots should be fork tender and the chicken cooked through, and almost falling off the bone.
- Carefully remove the chicken from the soup pot and let it cool for a few minutes until it's cool enough so that you can pull the meat from it. Remove the carrots, celery and onion from the soup pot as well. If you have too much broth in the pot you can now ladle some out to a jar or airtight container for later use and store it in the fridge.
- Chop up the carrots and celery and add it back to the soup. Shred some meat from the chicken, I used the meat from half the chicken, but feel free to use all the meat, especially if you have a lot of broth, then add the shredded chicken back to the soup pot.
- Add the dry noodles to the pot, and the chicken bouillon or vegeta. Taste for seasoning and adjust with salt and pepper as needed.
- Cook for another 5 to 10 minutes until noodles are cooked through. Be careful to not add too many noodles because as the soup sits they will expand and soak up a lot of the broth.
- Garnish with parsley and serve.
Notes
- Store homemade chicken noodle soup in the refrigerator for 3-4 days in an airtight container.
- Freeze soup without noodles to prevent them from becoming mushy during thawing; freeze up to 4-6 months.
- Use leftover chicken from the soup to make chicken salad or other dishes.
- Skim foam during boiling to keep the broth clear and appealing.
- Remove vegetables after cooking to avoid bitterness and cloudiness in the broth.
Nutrition Information
Show DetailsNutrition Facts
Serving: 6Serving
Amount Per Serving
Calories 183 kcal
% Daily Value*
| Serving | 1bowl | |
| Calories | 183kcal | 9% |
| Carbohydrates | 13g | 4% |
| Protein | 12g | 24% |
| Fat | 8g | 12% |
| Saturated Fat | 2g | 10% |
| Cholesterol | 50mg | 17% |
| Sodium | 492mg | 21% |
| Potassium | 272mg | 6% |
| Fiber | 1g | 4% |
| Sugar | 2g | 4% |
| Vitamin A | 3740IU | 75% |
| Vitamin C | 7.2mg | 8% |
| Calcium | 30mg | 3% |
| Iron | 1mg | 6% |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
User Reviews
Overall Rating
4.6
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