Nourishing Chicken Noodle Soup
This nourishing chicken noodle soup makes the perfect healthy soup on a cold day!
Servings: 6 servings
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoon olive oil or butter
- 1 lb good quality chicken I like to use chicken tenders
- 3 cups egg noodles
- 3 stalks celery chopped
- 1 onion diced
- 4 large carrots sliced
- 3 cloves garlic
- 2-3 teaspoon pink or sea salt or more to taste
- ½ teaspoon pepper
- 1 teaspoon dry Italian seasoning
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 5-7 sprigs fresh thyme or 2 teaspoon dry thyme
- 64 oz organic chicken broth
- ¼ cup fresh chopped parsley
- Garnish with fresh thyme or parsley
Instructions
- Chop onions, carrots, and celery, and set aside.
- In a large soup pot over medium-low heat, heat olive oil, and butter.
- Add chopped veggies, salt, pepper, Italian seasoning, and thyme ( if using dry)
- Sauté for 3-5 minutes to bring out the flavor.
- Add chicken and cook another 2-3 minutes turning chicken once.
- Grate or press garlic over the chicken and cook another 1-2 min making sure the garlic doesn't brown.
- If you are using fresh thyme get about 5 thyme sprigs from the package, use one sprig to tie around others to hold them together. Toss this on top of the chicken.
- Add broth and bring to a boil.
- Reduce to a simmer and cook 20 minutes or until chicken is no longer pink inside.
- Pull chicken out onto a plate and shred it with a fork and knife. Add back to the pot.
- Add egg noodles and cook the amount of time according to the package.
- Stir in the parsley and season with more salt and pepper as needed.