How to Make Chicken Soup

The recipe in this guide on how to make chicken soup is easy to follow and tastes delicious. The version given here is a creamed chicken-vegetable soup. All types of chicken soup are nutritious meals, and chicken soup is also considered a home-remedy for the common cold. This particular recipe is a chicken soup chock full of flavor and great on a cold day.

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Here is a simple recipe for chicken vegetable soup. Making this soup takes about at hour, though preparation time is only 20 minutes. Prep includes chopping the vegetables, and then sauteing the chicken (with a few of the veggies) for about 10 minutes. The broth is then added to the remaining vegetables and spices, and left to simmer on the stove for about 30 minutes. Lastly, the cream is added. And there you have it -- chicken vegetable soup!

Ingredients

• 3 boneless chicken breasts, chopped into cubes
• 1 tablespoons butter
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 1 cup chopped onion
• 1 cup chopped celery (1 stalk)
• 1/2 cup green or red pepper, chopped
• 1 tablespoon minced garlic
• 8 cups chicken broth
• 2 chicken bouillon cubes
• 1/2 teaspoon thyme
• 1/2 teaspoon basil
• 1/2 teaspoon pepper
• 1 bay leaf
• 1 cup diced potato
• 1/2 cup diced carrot
• 3/4 cup light cream

Take the chopped chicken meat and place in a soup pot with the olive oil and hot melted butter and saute slowly for 5 minutes, turning the pieces over twice. Then add the onion, celery, sweet pepper and minced garlic. Saute until the onion changes color from white to clear.

Add the 8 cups of broth, bouillon cubes, the spices, the potato and the diced carrot to the sauteed vegetables. Once the mixture is boiling, reduce the heat and then allow the mixture to simmer for 25 to 30 minutes, or until the vegetables are tender. As a final step, remove the pot from the heat and stir in the light cream quickly. Enjoy!