Semi-Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup – With this easy weeknight recipe, you can have all the delicious flavor and healing benefits of homemade chicken noodle soup in a quarter of the time!
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It’s officially cold and flu season. I work at a hospital and let’s just say that business has been booming! By obsessively washing my hands and disinfecting EVERYTHING at work, I’ve managed not to catch anything from my patients.
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My 3-year-old, however, is an entirely different story. Preschoolers get lots of colds, but what they don’t get is standard precautions. All that to say, I’ve had three colds so far this season and I anticipate that there are more to come. I just can’t say “no” to my son’s snotty hugs, kisses, and cuddles. Seriously though, I literally found boogers in my hair the other day. BOOGERS! In my HAIR! That’s so gross!
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When the snotty nose strikes, aside from some hard liquor to knock me out (from a medical perspective I don’t actually recommend this approach), one of my greatest comforts is Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup. I used to make it from scratch from a whole chicken with the bones and all. A few hours later I had a perfect bowl of comforting chicken noodle love.
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The thing is, over the years I’ve become lazier. Also busier… I’m a working mom, you know… So I’ve adopted the semi-homemade approach to my chicken noodle soup. By using a rotisserie chicken and store-bought chicken broth, this soup takes me a quarter of the time to make.
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The end result is a flavorful, warming, comforting, (and I’d like to think healing), Semi-Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup. My whole family slurps this up and they even ask for seconds. It’s so good that’s it’s good enough to eat even when you’re healthy!
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Semi-Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup
With this easy weeknight recipe, you can have all the delicious flavor and healing benefits of homemade soup in a quarter of the time!
Ingredients
- 4 tsp butter
- 2 1/2 C carrots, chopped*
- 2 C celery, chopped
- 1 1/2 C sweet onion, chopped
- 1 Tbsp dry parsley
- 2 1/2 tsp garlic powder
- 1 1/2 tsp dried thyme
- 1/8 tsp dried rosemary
- 1/4 tsp paprika
- 1/4 tsp salt (optional)
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
- 3 32 oz boxes chicken broth**
- 3 chicken bouillon cubes
- 1 cooked rotisserie chicken, 2 C chopped
- 2 1/2 C durum wheat pasta
Instructions
- In a large pot melt the butter over medium heat and sauté the carrots, celery, and onions until the onions are translucent (about 5 minutes). Next, add all of the spices to the pot and cook for an additional minute.
- Add the 3 32 oz boxes of chicken broth and the 3 bouillon cubes to the pot. Bring to a boil over high heat and then reduce to a simmer. Simmer for 10 minutes to soften the carrots and the celery.
- After 10 minutes have elapsed, bring the pot back up to a boil over high heat. Add the noodles to the pot and cook per the higher of the package instruction times (for a softer noodle). Stir occasionally to prevent the pasta from sticking to the bottom of the pot.
- Once the noodles are done cooking add the chicken to the pot. Bring the pot back up to a boil and then remove it from the heat. Serve immediately, or store in the refrigerator and reheat for up to 5 days.
Notes
*To cut even more time use crinkle cut carrots, found in the produce or freezer section at the grocery store.
**Use regular boxed chicken broth, or consider purchasing boxed bone broth.
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