Just like you, I have a favorite recipe for chicken or turkey noodle soup. But I have been wanting to try a creamy version and found this one from the Food Network. It’s DELICIOUS! Full of flavor and a little thicker than the broth as in a standard chicken noodle soup.
The original recipe does not call for noodles. We love the noodles and add them or sometimes add cooked rice at the end.
Creamy Chicken Soup
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 2 stalks celery (with leaves), chopped
- 3 medium carrots, chopped
- 1/2 cup flour
- 7 cups chicken broth, homemade or low-sodium canned
- 3 sprigs parsley
- 3 sprigs fresh sage, rosemary or thyme
- 1 bay leaf
- 2 1/2 cups cooked, diced chicken or turkey
- 1/2 cup heavy cream (can substitute half-and-half)
- 2 1/2 teaspoons dry sherry
- 1 tablespoon kosher salt (I added bouillon cubes to the broth so I needed very little additional salt. A Tablespoon sounds like way too much to me)
- Freshly ground black pepper to taste
- 2 tablespoons chopped flat-leaf parsley
- optional: 2 cups dry egg noodles, cooked and drained
Directions
Melt the butter in a large soup pot over medium heat. Add the onion, celery, and carrots and cook, covered, stirring occasionally, until soft, about 12 minutes. Add the flour and cook, stirring with a wooden spoon, for 2 minutes more.
Pour in the broth and bring to a boil while whisking constantly. Tie the parsley sprigs, sage, and bay leaf together with a piece of kitchen twine and add to the soup. Lower the heat and simmer for 15 minutes.
Stir in the chicken and bring to a boil. Remove from the heat.
Whisk the heavy cream, sherry, and salt into the soup and season with pepper to taste. Remove and discard the herb bundle.
Stir in the cooked egg noodles, if using. Divide among soup bowls, sprinkle the top of each bowl of soup with the chopped parsley and serve immediately.
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Mmmmm… I'm thinking I've come down with a cold and this soup would surely do the trick.
I've bookmarked it for future reference.
This sounds really good~I am putting this on my to try list.
I would so enjoy a steamy bowl of this right now! Your holiday together looked like such fun. I'm so glad you got to day trip, take pictures together and feel such happiness. With all of our talents, I'm sure your family loves to come home.
well, thank you very much for the delicious
recipe. we love chicken/turkey noodle
soup around here!
i have really enjoyed your sweet blog and
look forward to many visits!
merry Christmas,
lea
I have been so blessed by my visit here to your blog this morning. I love when I have extra time and get to just enjoy the pictures and words of some special blogs. I scrolled down through your last five posts and was reminded of how much we have in common in many areas of life. God certainly has given you a beautiful family. Thank you for sharing them with us. Your photography is quite impressive and your gentle, quiet, caring spirit comes through the words you share.
The chicken soup recipe is definitely one that I am going to make this winter. A perfect winter soup.
Hope you have a good day. Oh, and I really appreciate the quote by Abraham Lincoln that you have on your side bar. So true!
That soup looks delicious!!! You have a very beautiful family, I loved seeing all those wonderful family photos, wonderful moments!
Hugs
Charo
That looks fabulous!! Love Heather
Mmmmm!Sounds yummy! I am just about to make turkey soup ~ perhaps will give this one a try!
Thank you!
Mmmmm!Sounds yummy! I am just about to make turkey soup ~ perhaps will give this one a try!
Thank you!
Yours is the second turkey soup recipe I've seen today. Must be a sign that I should use up the last of the turkey to make soup…lol Yours sure does look good and with colder weather arriving I've been in the mood for soup lately
It sounds wonderful, Lorraine. I am always looking for a chicken soup recipe that is a bit different from my old standby. Hugs- Diana
With the cold temps you are experiencing, I imagine this was delicious! Thanks for the recipe and hope you are enjoying your Monday Lorraine.