Comforting homemade chicken noodle soup. So perfect for winter.
Course Soup
Cuisine American
Keyword chicken noodle soup
Prep Time 5 minutesminutes
Cook Time 1 hourhour20 minutesminutes
Total Time 1 hourhour25 minutesminutes
Servings 6
Ingredients
1wholechicken
12cupswater
2 ½tsp saltmore or less depending on taste
2bay leaves
2largecarrotschopped
½ oniondiced
2celery ribsdiced
2cupsnoodles of choiceany short cut pasta will do
1tbspolive oil or butter
½tspdried thyme
Instructions
In a large stockpot, place chicken, 12 cups of water, 1 bay leaf, and 1 tsp salt. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to a gentle boil, and simmer partway covered for about an hour.
When chicken is finished cooking, remove, allow to cool, and debone chicken and reserve two cups of chicken for soup. Set aside. The rest of the chicken can be used for another meal.
Strain broth and reserve eight cups for this soup. If you have any leftover, use for another meal.
In an empty stock pot, heat 1 T. olive oil or butter. Add carrots, onion, and celery and cook under crisp tender.
Add 8 cups broth, an additional 1-1.5 tsp salt depending on your preference, thyme, and a bay leaf.
Bring to a boil and add in noodles. Cook until noodles are al dente.
The last few minutes of cook time for the noodles, add in 2 cups chopped reserved chicken. Taste and adjust seasonings if needed.
Notes
The chicken and broth can be cooked ahead of time to make this a quick weeknight meal of around twenty minutes.