The Best Chicken Soup Ever

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Prep:
Cook: 2 hr.
Ready in: 2 hr.

Serves:

Ingredients

1 (2 to 3 pound) whole chicken
3 stalks celery with leaves, chopped
1 pound baby carrots
2 onions, chopped
2 cubes beef bouillon, crumbled
1 packet chicken noodle soup mix
2 (14.5 ounce) cans low-sodium chicken broth
1 pinch dried thyme
1 pinch poultry seasoning
1 pinch dried basil
5 black peppercorns
2 bay leaves
1 pinch dried parsley
1 (8 ounce) package farfalle (bow tie) pasta

Cooking Instructions

Place chicken in a large pot and cover with water. Place celery leaves in pot and bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer until chicken is cooked through, 30 to 40 minutes. Remove chicken from pot and place in a bowl until cool enough to handle.

Meanwhile, place celery, carrots, onion, bouillon, soup mix and chicken broth in pot and let simmer. Season with thyme, poultry seasoning, basil, peppercorns, bay leaves and parsley.

Bone chicken and cut up meat into bite-size pieces. Return meat to pot. Cook until vegetables are tender and flavors are well blended, up to 90 minutes.

Stir pasta into pot and cook 10 to 15 minutes more, until noodles are al dente. Serve hot.

Nutritional Information per Serving

calories 497cal total fat 24g cholesterol 115mg sodium 760mg carbohydrates 35g fiber 3g

Recipe Categories

Soups/Stews

Recipe Location

This recipe has been added to the following public cookbooks:
Food I Want To Make, Michelle's Cookbook, MyCookbook, Bee L, Kim's Cookbook

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★ ★ ★ ★ ★	Swin100 05/06/08 12:28 PM	Best Chicken Soup Ever I have to agree. the soup is great. Wait until the end to add the Chicken noodle soup though.
★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆	Patrick Elevator 04/11/08 06:44 PM	co let soup cool in fridge then take as much fat off that you want
★ ★ ★ ★ ★	DTaylor888 02/27/08 10:02 AM	soup Great soup, I've made it several times and it's always wonderful. Here's a tip, try using the left overs from a baked chicken include the droppings...yum
★ ★ ★ ★ ★	Dilly22 02/22/08 05:24 PM	Delicious! I've made this recipe several times now tweaking it each time. I add twice as many spices and cook the noodles separately. My family loves this soup, great with dinner rolls.
★ ★ ★ ★ ★	marionskibba 02/12/08 09:04 PM	Making a less fatty chicken soup It is easier to cut up the chicken before cooking and after it is cooled then pull off the fat and cut chicken into smaller pieces. Add all other ingredients and cook till veggies are tender. Cool over nite and then skim off the fat. Cook the noodles separately and add to soup when ready to eat.