Easy to make Homemade Chicken Noodle soup made with a whole chicken, vegetables and egg noodles. This classic recipe will feel like a big comforting hug in a bowl!
Easy Chicken Noodle Soup Recipe
Even though this Chicken Noodle Soup is homemade with the broth made from scratch, don’t get intimidated. It’s actually quite easy to make, and definitely worth the little bit of extra time.
In the end you’ll have a delicious chicken noodle soup made with homemade broth, tasty chicken, carrots, celery and egg noodles. It’s the perfect dinner for chilly nights, or when you need some comfort in a bowl. I hope you love it as much as my family does!
Watch How I Make It
What ingredients do you need?
You’ll need 1 whole chicken, carrots, celery, salt, pepper, turmeric, thyme, parsley, egg noodles and flour to make this soup.
The Secret Ingredient: Homemade Chicken Broth
The secret I’ve found to the best Chicken Noodle Soup is to make homemade chicken broth by using a whole chicken. Not only is this going to provide the meat for your soup but it provides a real rich chicken broth that no bouillon or boxed broth can give.
Do you cook noodles before adding to soup?
No, you’ll cook the egg noodles directly in the chicken broth in the soup pot. Doing this is going to make them more flavorful too since they’re being cooked in flavored broth.
Tip: Want to make this really special? Try my homemade egg noodles!
What can I add to chicken soup to give it flavor?
Besides homemade chicken broth, you’ll need salt, white pepper (black pepper is fine too), turmeric, thyme and parsley. This will all make the soup more flavorful.
How to make best chicken noodle soup from scratch
First, buy a whole chicken. You can either chop it up yourself, or sometimes the meat department will have already chopped it up for you.
In a large soup pot cover the chicken with 4 quarts of water.
Once the chicken is cooked, remove the chicken from the pot and shred the meat off the bones. I do this on a cutting board. Please be careful, the chicken is very hot!
Put the chicken aside in a bowl and put the bones back into the broth. This is going to make the most delicious homemade chicken broth!
When the broth is done be extra sure to remove every bone from the broth.
Now add back in the shredded chicken, along with chopped carrots and celery, salt, pepper, turmeric, thyme, parsley and egg noodles.
One more step to make it more creamy, mix flour and water in a small bowl until smooth. Pour into the soup pot and give it a couple stirs.
Now my favorite part – time to eat dinner!
Serve in bowls and enjoy this homemade chicken noodle soup!
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Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup
PrintIngredients
- 1 whole chicken cut up
- 4 carrots chopped
- 3 stalks celery chopped
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 1/2 teaspoon white pepper (or black pepper)
- 1/2 teaspoon turmeric
- 1/4 teaspoon ground thyme
- 2 teaspoons parsley flakes
- 12 oz bag egg noodles
- 3 tablespoons flour
- 3 tablespoons water
Instructions
- Cover chicken in 4 quarts of water in large soup pot. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat to simmer for 30 minutes.
- Remove chicken from the pot. Place the chicken on a cutting board and remove all the meat you can from the bones (careful, it's hot!). Shred up the chicken and set it aside. Put the bones back into broth and simmer for 45 minutes, covered.
- Remove the bones completely from the broth, discard them.
- Add shredded chicken, carrots, celery, salt, pepper, turmeric, thyme, parsley and egg noodles into the pot and bring to a boil. Reduce to simmer and cook for 15 minutes.
- In a small bowl mix flour and water until smooth. Pour this mixture into the soup pot and stir to make a creamier broth.
- Serve the soup and enjoy!
pam (Sidewalk Shoes) says
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!
Maureen | Orgasmic Chef says
Now THIS is chicken soup. I love everything about it. Your poor garden looks cold and sad.
Lawyer Loves Lunch says
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.
Mary Frances says
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!
simply h squared says
There’s nothing quite like a good homemade chicken noodle soup 🙂
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Tandy | Lavender and Lime says
This is the perfect cure for any weather 🙂
Laura @ Lauras Baking Talent says
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.
Julia | JuliasAlbum.com says
Pamela, your chicken noodle soup looks so delicious and comforting – perfect for crazy winters! 🙂 Love your rain boots!
Beth says
There’s nothing like soup in the winter, and your chicken noodle soup looks great. (Love the rain boots, too!)
Gretchen @ Two Healthy Kitchens says
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!
Monica says
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.
miss messy says
This looks like the perfect warming winter dish 🙂
laurasmess says
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
Judit & Corina @WineDineDaily says
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
Mary Frances says
This winter IS crazy! Your soup looks like a great way to warm up after trekking through the slushy remnants of our last storm.
Suzanne says
Oh I do hope everything survives. This winter has been brutal. Your chicken soup looks delicious and so comforting.
Helen @ Scrummy Lane says
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!
The Squishy Monster says
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.
Shashi @ http://runninsrilankan.com says
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!
Kelly says
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:)
Ashley says
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!
Jamie | Jamie's Recipes says
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!
Lea Ann (Cooking On The Ranch) says
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.
Amanda @ Once Upon a Recipe says
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!
Sues says
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!!)
Beth @ bethcakes says
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!
Zainab @ Blahnik Baker says
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.
Davida @ The Healthy Maven says
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 🙂
Ashley @ My Midwest Table says
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! 🙂
vanillasugarblog says
I’m so tired of winter!