Chicken noodle soup is a classic winter warming soup that’s packed full of flavour. It is easy to make and tastes amazing with only a few easy ingredients. The best thing about a chicken noodle soup is it can be used as a base soup, just add your favourite soup ingredients to change the whole meal! Today we make chicken noodle soup 2-ways, firstly, a stock standard chicken and noodle soup and secondly, a chicken noodle and vegetable soup.
What You Need for a Basic Chicken Noodle Soup
If this is your first time making a chicken noodle soup, start with the basics, from this recipe you can add your favourite ingredients to completely change the soup to your liking!
Basic Chicken Noodle Soup Recipe
Serves: 4 people
Preparation: Time 15min
Ingredients
1L Chicken stock – Homemade is best
300g Poached chicken (Roast chicken is also great)
150g Pandaroo thin egg noodle
1 bay leaf
3 cloves garlic
3 shallot stalks
1 onion fine diced
2 stalks celery fine diced
1 drizzle of olive oil
Method – Basic Chicken Noodle Soup
1. Dice onion and celery, peel, and crush garlic
2. Gently cook onion and celery with olive oil until soft, add garlic, cook 30 seconds
3. Add stock & bay leaf, bring to simmer, add noodles, cook 5min, add remaining ingredients.
4. Let rest off the heat for 5 min – This gives time for the noodles to soak up the stock whilst allowing the flavours to develop
5. Serve
Nutritional Information – Basic Chicken Noodle Soup
Per Serve – Approximately 400g
Energy – 1361kJ, 314cal
Protein – 31g
Fat – 9g
Saturated Fat – 2.4g
Carbohydrate – 28g
Fibre – 2.2g
Sodium – 538mg
(Nutritional information calculated using nutritional analysis software, Foodworks. Nutritional information should be used as a guide and may vary)
A nice filling serve of this soup is about 400g or a little under 2 cups. To make the soup more nutritionally valuable, consider adding more vegetables, legumes, and beans to increase the vitamin and mineral content, as well as adding all-important fibre to the dish. The recipe below is great for boosting the nutrition in this soup
The Healthy Chicken, Noodle, and Vegetable Soup
Chicken, Noodle, and Vegetable Soup
Serves: 6 people
Preparation: Time 15min
Ingredients
1.5L Chicken stock – Homemade is best
300g Poached chicken (Roast chicken is also great)
150g Pandaroo thin egg noodle
1 bay leaf
3 cloves garlic
3 shallot stalks
1 onion fine diced
2 stalks celery fine diced
1 drizzle of olive oil
Additional Extra’s
2 cups of your favourite vegetables, legumes, and herbs – (Recommended) – Pumpkin, potato, broccoli, cauliflower, swede, turnip, peas, corn carrot.
½ tin 5 bean mix
½ cup red lentils
Method – Chicken noodle and vegetable soup
1. Gently cook onion, celery, and a dash of olive oil until soft
2. Add all your hard vegetables (turnips, swede, sweet potato etc), garlic and shallots with any dried lentils and cook for 2 min
3. Add chicken stock and bring to simmer (small bubbles and only a little stock movement)
4. Cook for about 15min
5. Add remaining softer vegetables (broccoli, cauliflower, tomatoes etc), herbs, 5 bean mix and noodles
6. Cook for about 5min at a simmer
7. Add cooked chicken that is shredded
8. Check to make sure all vegetable and lentils are cooked
9. Let stand for 5 min and serve with crusty, warm wholemeal bread!
Nutritional Information – Chicken Noodle and Vegetable Soup
Per Serve – Approximately 500g
Energy – 1800kJ, 314cal
Protein – 35g
Fat – 7.8g
Saturated Fat – 2.3g
Carbohydrate – 47g
Fibre – 11g
Sodium – 700 mg
(Nutritional information calculated using nutritional analysis software, Foodworks. Nutritional information should be used as a guide and may vary)
Alternative Serving Suggestions – Freezing for a Quick Healthy Meal
Having trouble eating all that soup? There is a solution; this soup freezes down wonderfully making for a quick and easy meal that can be defrosted in a couple of minutes. You can place any leftover soup into takeaway containers and place in the freezer. This assists in portion control and makes for easy stacking in the freezer. The container in the photo below is about 600ml and can be purchased at most supermarkets, they can be washed and reused and are great to control portion size. The perfect meal to keep you warm in winter, from your freezer to your plate in minutes!
