Homemade Vegetable Chicken Noodle Soup
Homemade Vegetable Chicken Noodle Soup recipe – just like how Mom used to make it! The perfect bowl of comforting soup on a cold Winter day!
Guys, is this winter just crazy?
Besides a few wild snowstorms over the past few years winter has been on the mild side. Sure, we had a record setting snowfall a few times during those years, but that was it for the winter. This year, it’s just winter, all the time. We’re talking snow, ice, slush and cold all the time. It seems to me that whenever I check the weather forecast there’s some type of snowy mix being talked about. And can we talk about how much it stinks to have to walk in the snow? Living in a city is great for so many reasons, one being that I can walk and get anywhere that I want to go, but that means walking through the snow and slush and trying not to fall in the process. It’s a nightmare. On every single corner there will be a giant puddle of slush just waiting for you.
The good thing through all this cold and snow is seeing all the creatures the kids (and adults) create on the sidewalks to cause some smiles. This always cheers me up.
What else cheers me up? Coming inside from a super cold day and warming up with a big bowl of Chicken Noodle Soup. That totally cheers me up.
The secret I’ve found to some great Chicken Noodle Soup is always to use a whole chicken. Not only is this going to provide the meat in your meal but it gives you that real rich chicken broth that no bouillon or boxed broth can give. Pair this with some fresh vegetables and spices and you’ll have one big bowl of soup that will be sure to warm you up.
Homemade Vegetable Chicken Noodle Soup
Ingredients
- 1 whole chicken cut up
- 3 carrots diced
- 3 stalks celery diced
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 1/2 teaspoon tumeric
- 1/2 teaspoon white pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon ground thyme
- 2 teaspoons parsley flakes
- 12 oz bag of egg noodles
- 3 tablespoons flour
Instructions
- Cover chicken in 4 quarts of water. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat to simmer for 30 minutes.
- Remove chicken from pot carefully. Remove all the meat you can from the bones, but carefully as it is hot. Set meat aside. Put bones back into broth and simmer for 45 minutes, covered.
- Remove the bones from both, be sure to get them all out.
- Add carrots, celery, salt, turmeric, white pepper, thyme and parsley flakes to the pot. Stir and simmer for 10 minutes.
- Turn heat back to high and add in egg noodles and chicken. Cook for 6-8 minutes, or until your noodles are cooked.
- Mix your flour with a few tablespoons of water until smooth in a small bowl. Pour into soup and continue to stir to make the broth creamier.
- Serve and enjoy.
Recipe Notes
Adapted from Tasty Kitchen
I’m so tired of winter!
I hear ya on winter. I’m so over it! But I’m not over this soup. This would be the perfect cure for those winter blues. Stay warm–you and the garden! 🙂
My Mom isn’t the best chef in the world but she makes a mean soup! She always taught me to make the broth from scratch and it really does make a world of difference! I’ll have to compare this to her chicken and veggie noodle soup 🙂
It’s been a crazy winter for us too in Upstate NY! So much snow but most times it’s the fluffy pretty lake effect snow. This soup looks amazing. A bowl of this will cure any remaining winter blues! I love all the veggies you snuck in there.
I cannot even imagine that much snow. We’ve been getting flurries here and everyone freaks out, haha. I do agree that soup is the best way to warm up. Love your homemade version and that you even made your own broth!
This chicken soup looks super hearty and awesome! I hope your gardens are OK 🙂 I was just thinking last night how awesome it is that I can walk through super deep puddles and not feel a thing… Yay for rain boots! 🙂 (but i miss sandals and ballet flats!!)
We are just about to head into another cold and snowy patch, and I’m thinking I need to make a big pot of this soup to get me through!
I need a pair of those boots. We’ve had snow/ice/slush on the ground for 2 months. Maybe if I buy some Spring will arrive. 🙂 And is there anything better than homemade chicken noodle soup and all those veggies? Now I’m officially hungry.
A whole chicken certainly gives chicken noodle soup a real grandmotherly flavor. So homey!
As I sit here it is snowing outside and we are under a winter weather advisory. I think I might scrap my dinner plans for rueben sandwiches and make this soup instead. Mmmm!
This winter has been really crazy. We moved to NC and thought we were escaping bad winters and of course the snow just followed us even down here. It’s insane. I had a rosemary plant outside that was doing really well .. until the cold just kept on coming. Poor thing is looking sad. But this soup looks delicious! It’s been far too long since I’ve made chicken noodle!
I normally don’t mind winter so much but I have to agree, this winter has been brutal! It finally warmed up a bit yesterday and today but I think we are supposed to get more snow again this weekend – eeks! Love your cute boots, perfect for sloshing around and showing the snow and rain whose boss 🙂 This soup looks incredible girl, especially with all the veggies! Love the homemade broth too – a big bowl of this would definitely keep me warm and cozy:)
Coming home to a bowl of this would cheer me up too!
Love that you used turmeric in these!
I hope yalls plants survive too!
This Winter is SO crazy. It snowed 5″ last week {a freak occurrence for us to begin with} and now it’s 75…our neighbor said he has on the AC! love your tip about a richer broth. Couldn’t agree more.
This sounds so easy … but looks so tasty, too. I know it’s not the case right now, but it must be so satisfying to get those basic veggies out of your own garden … and right in the middle of the city, too! Really hope you find that your plants have survived the nasty winter, Pamela!
Oh I do hope everything survives. This winter has been brutal. Your chicken soup looks delicious and so comforting.
This winter IS crazy! Your soup looks like a great way to warm up after trekking through the slushy remnants of our last storm.
All that snow! It is hard to beleive how crazy the winter is this year. This soup sounds really delicious with a more intense broth and tumeric! Keep warm Pamela:)
Cheers,
J+C
Wow. I can’t relate to that kind of snowfall at ALL! I hope that your plants survive the cold snap, here’s hoping that they’re resilient enough under their protective greenhouse blankets. Love the look of this gorgeous, warm and nourishing soup. Beautiful! Stay warm x
This looks like the perfect warming winter dish 🙂
A pot of ‘real’ chicken noodle soup made with a whole chicken is such a treat! Growing up, our moms always made soup that started with an actual chicken or some other meat bones. I admit I never do that and I wish I did. This must be terrific soup.
I’m just hanging on by a thread here waiting for this winter to bid farewell. Thank goodness for rain/snow boots! I don’t know how I ever lived without it.
mmmmmmm …. this would be the most perfect soup to come home to after a wet, slushy, cold day outside.
I generally like the first few snows – and I’m a sucker for extreme weather of any kind (so the huge snow falls are fun!) – but I’m WAY over this one. Bring on the sun!
And your poor garden! It just looks so cold under all that snow! I hope your beautiful veggies are doing well under there! 🙂
PS – LOVE your boots!! I want new boots, too! My rain boots are falling apart! Time for a new pair!
There’s nothing like soup in the winter, and your chicken noodle soup looks great. (Love the rain boots, too!)
Pamela, your chicken noodle soup looks so delicious and comforting – perfect for crazy winters! 🙂 Love your rain boots!
I also can not believe the winter that we have had. Please stop snowing sometime in the semi future 🙂 Loving this soup… perfection. Thanks for sharing.
This is the perfect cure for any weather 🙂
There’s nothing quite like a good homemade chicken noodle soup 🙂
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Your snowman is great! I need one 🙂 We’ve bad a bunch of snow, too, but the last two days were in the 60s! Crazy, right? Aaaand today is snowed again. But oh we’ll – more bowls of hot comforting soup!
Digging the turmeric in this soup! I’ve been looking for more herbal remedies (like turmeric!) because I’ve been so sniffly lately and I can’t even chalk it up to wintergeddon because we’re so spoiled on the West Coast.
Now THIS is chicken soup. I love everything about it. Your poor garden looks cold and sad.
Even here in the south, we have maxed out our school snow days. Last week out for 4 days with snow, then this morning a two hour delay because of severe thunderstorms last night – crazy!
So funny…I totally just made chicken soup too! Must be winter 😉 Yours looks delish!
I could eat this soup every single day with this crazy winter. Perfect!
Thanks for this recipe! I could definitely use a big bowl of this today – we were socked again with any snow storm and now it’s cold again 🙁 Have a good weekend!!
This soup looks absolutely incredible. I would love to have a bowl of this comforting soup.
I love my rain boots, too. and I’d love a bowl of this soup right now!
This winter is SO crazy! So ready for it to be done! I love this soup and the bowl you used in your pictures is the cutest!!
You know, that we still didn’t have had any snow yet in Belgium? Now, I hope it stays away & I hope Spring is coming just around the corner at your place! Your freaking delicious home-made chicken noodle soup looks very refreshing & superb too!
Yum yum Yummm! x
Glad that winter-like weather is finally over here… I hope you get some sunshine soon!
This soup looks so so comforting! Gonna check if I have all of the ingredients so as to make it for lunch today!
p.s: love your boots!
Haha this made me laugh: “On the corners while everyone stands to the sides of these puddles, I just march on through (like a boss)”… like a boss, hahahaha. This winter has been absolutely nuts. I’m so ready for spring. Nothing like a good homemade soup though to warm you up on these crazy cold days!
Oh man, you people in cold climates have my admiration and sympathy. At least you have cute rain boots and snowmen to cheer you up! And this soup–yes please! I’ll take 2 bowls and a to-go container.
There is nothing like a big bowl of homemade veggie packed chicken noodle soup on a chilly (REALLY chilly) night 🙂
This looks like the ultra-comfort soup! Gorgeous!