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Homemade Chicken and Vegetable Soup


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April 7, 2017

Homemade Chicken and Vegetable Soup in bowlThis is an easy chicken soup recipe. It can be made stove top or in the crockpot for those busy days. Our soup varies each time I make it based on ingredients on hand and which kids are home to eat it; as some don't eat corn, some don't eat peas.

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Prep Time: 45 minutes

Cook Time: 4 hours

Total Time: 5 hours

Yield: 1 gallon

Ingredients:

  • 1 whole chicken
  • 1 can corn
  • 1 onion, diced
  • 3 stalks celery, diced
  • 4 carrots, grated
  • 1 can peas
  • pepper
  • salt or seasoning salt
  • water
  • noodles or rice

Steps:

  1. Boil chicken in water until well done. You can cook on the stove or in the crockpot, whichever suits your time schedule.
  2. chicken cooking in a pot
     
    chicken cooking in a crockpot
     
  3. When chicken is done, skin and debone chicken. Save the water it was cooked in, which is now your chicken broth. Set bones and skin aside to freeze for soup stock for future soup. Cut or shred chicken into small pieces.
  4. cut and shredded chicken
     
  5. Skim any skin and fat off the top of the remain broth. You can set the broth in the refrigerator to allow fat to harden and remove the fat, or you can skim it off with ice cubes.
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  7. Dice and add your choice of vegetable ingredients. Suggestions are carrots, corn, onion, celery, and peas.
  8. diced onion
     
    grater and grated carrot
     
    diced celery
     
  9. Add your pepper and other chosen seasonings here. I wait to add salt if I am using any commercially canned foods, as often salt has already been added to those. After it cooks a bit, I find I often don't need it.
  10. At this stage, you can either continue to cook your soup for at least 4 hours in the crockpot, or until done on the stove top; or you can put into the crockpot and set it in the fridge overnight. The next day you can start the crockpot and have it ready when you come home from work.
  11. If you want to add noodles precook them for the crockpot and add last. If cooking on the stove top, add them into the pot towards the end without precooking.
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  13. If you want to add rice, precook and add last.
  14. This soup also freezes and heats up well. If you chose to make ahead to freeze, do not add noodles or rice before freezing. Wait and add them at the time you reheat it.
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October 24, 2017

A very good vegetable soup full of nutrients and vitamins. Made from chicken drumsticks and water for the flavorful soup base.

Chicken Vegetable Soup in a bowl

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November 18, 2011

I learned how to make really good chicken broth from my college roommate back in the day, a Chinese girl named Jin (Pronounced "Jean). From that amazing broth, she made lots of other dishes, and I taught her how to make chicken soup.

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September 8, 2022

We love soup, especially during the colder months. When I make soup, I make a big pot full and have enough to freeze for later.

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It has to be gluten free for me so I use Swanson's broth and Herbox beef bouillon cubes.

Vegetable Chicken Soup in a bowl

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