The Coziest Chicken Noodle Soup
This recipe for chicken noodle soup is wholesome, homemade and nourishing. Using the whole chicken to extract the nutrients needed to cure and comfort whatever ales you.
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 4 carrots sliced or diced
- 3 celery stalks sliced or diced
- 2 parsnips sliced or diced
- 1 large yellow onion diced
- garlic cloves minced
- 1 whole chicken
- fresh parsley and rosemary bunch
- 1 tbsp salt or to taste
- ½ tsp pepper or to taste
- 2 tbsp apple cider vinegar
- 8 oz wide egg noodles half the bag
Instructions
- Chop and dice vegetables. Heat large stockpot and add olive oil. Add vegetables to saute' for 5 minutes.
- Remove packaging from whole chicken and discard giblets. Rinse chicken under cold water
- Transfer bird to cutting board, measure amount of cheese cloth needed to wrap chicken up with tie at the top and cut to appropriate size. Place fresh herbs on chicken, sprinkle meat with salt and pepper, and wrap the whole bird and herbs inside the cheese cloth. Tie with butchers twine to secure.
- Place wrapped bird inside stock pot with sauteed veggies add about 5 quarts of water, salt, pepper and vinegar. Bring to boil and then set to low heat cover and simmer for at least 1 hour and 30 minutes. When it's ready you will know! Water will look like golden broth.
- Using tongs and large spoon, to remove from stock pot. Place chicken in large mixing bowl. Cut string to remove twine and open cheese cloth. Let cool off for a few minutes before using fork remove the meat and place in separate mixing bowl. Decide if you want to use both white and dark meat, discard of bones and skin.
- If necessary skim off any impurities from the top of soup, however you may have none if bird was wrapped securely. Return meat to soup and taste broth, adjust salt and pepper according to preference.
- Boil egg noodles in separate pot and divide noodles into bowl and ladle hot soup over top. Garnish with fresh parsley and serve.
Notes
Nutrition Facts are estimates.
Recipe can be made in slow cooker or instant pot:
For slow cooker, follow all directions but heat on low for 6 hours or high for 4
For Instant pot, follow all directions but cook on "soup" setting and let it natural release.
Nutrition
Serving: 12ozCalories: 474kcalCarbohydrates: 63gProtein: 22gFat: 15gSaturated Fat: 3gCholesterol: 84mgSodium: 1846mgPotassium: 789mgFiber: 8gSugar: 9gVitamin A: 10286IUVitamin C: 19mgCalcium: 80mgIron: 2mg
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