Chef John's Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup recipe

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Ingredients

1 tablespoon butter
½ cup diced carrot
½ cup diced onion
½ cup diced celery
1 pinch salt
¼ teaspoon fresh thyme leaves
2 tablespoons melted chicken fat
2 quarts roasted chicken broth (see footnote for recipe link)
4 ounces uncooked wide egg noodles
2 cooked boneless chicken breast halves, cubed
1 pinch cayenne pepper
1 pinch salt and ground black pepper to taste

Nutrition Info

149 calories
carbohydrate: 11.8 g
cholesterol: 40 mg
fat: 6.7 g
fiber: 0.9 g
protein: 9.5 g
saturatedFat: 2.2 g
servingSize: -
sodium: 1000.1 mg
sugar: 2.1 g
transFat: : -
unsaturatedFat: : -

Directions

  1. Melt butter in a large soup pot over medium heat. Stir in carrot, onion, celery, salt, and fresh thyme. Stir in chicken fat, cook and stir until the onions turn soft and translucent, 5 to 6 minutes.

  2. Stir in roasted chicken broth and bring to a boil.

  3. Season to taste with salt, if necessary, stir in egg noodles and cook until tender, about 5 minutes.

  4. Stir in cooked chicken breast meat and simmer until heated through, about 5 minutes. Season with cayenne pepper, salt and black pepper to taste.

Recipe Yield

8 servings

Recipe Note

This soul-warming soup is deliciously simple -- just chicken and noodles. What makes it so good is the homemade roasted chicken stock.

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