Creamy Chicken Noodle Soup

This Creamy Chicken Noodle Soup recipe is tasty and easy to make with basic ingredients. It makes a delicious hot lunch or cold remedy to warm and fill you up on cold winter days!

Eating a delicious bowl of chicken noodle soup in the wintertime is like having pumpkin pie on Thanksgiving. It just goes together.

Hot chicken soup is so comforting when you’re feeling under the weather. Try my One Pot Authentic Homemade Italian Wedding Soup too! It’s made by stewing a chicken for a wonderful homemade chicken broth!

Serve this chicken noodle soup with a sandwich for a complete meal.

If you’re like me and have teens living in your house, you need filling dishes they can pull out of the fridge, heat and eat. This is great for them and easy for you to make.

Soup out of a can loses its luster once you have a nice homemade soup to eat and without a lot of effort. Ever find brown spots on the carrots that come out of a soup can?

How about biting into overcooked noodles? Who even knows how long it’s been sitting in that can in all of those preservatives that dim its flavor.

No thanks! I’ll make my own soup!

Plus, you control the amount of sodium and the quality of the ingredients to make it perfect for your family!

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What if I don’t have cooked chicken?

You can poach a chicken breast on the stove top while you’re getting this recipe started. By the time you finish cooking the chicken breast, the noodles will be cooked and ready to receive the chicken.

If you’re poaching the chicken, don’t throw away the water in which the chicken was cooked because you can use that as part of the 8 cups of chicken broth you need to make this recipe. It will add more fresh flavor to it.

Alternatively, you can use storebought rotisserie chicken instead. Use white or dark meat, whichever you prefer.

What kind of egg noodles do I use?

You can use wide egg noodles, medium egg noodles or similar type pasta. Egg noodles are the traditional pasta to make chicken noodle soup.

See my Easy and Best Italian Chicken Pastina Soup Recipe too.

TIP: Because onions are an important ingredient for cooking, I alway have a bag of frozen chopped onions in my freezer just in case I ever run out of onions. It has come in handy when my husband used up the fresh onions and didn’t tell me (eye roll) we were out of onions.

Ingredients

*The full, printable recipe is in the recipe card below where you can adjust the servings. 

• egg noodles
• chicken broth
• extra virgin olive oil
• all purpose flour
• garlic
• onions
• celery
• carrots
• thyme
• heavy cream
• cooked chicken (white or dark meat)

Summary Instructions

First, sautee the onion, garlic, celery, carrots and thyme in olive oil for a few minutes. If you don’t have cooked chicken, put a chicken breast cut in half in 2 cups of water and boil it on your stovetop for about 10-15 minutes. Be sure it’s cooked in the thickest part. Cut it into bite sized pieces before adding it to the soup.

Then, stir in the flour.

Next, add the chicken broth and bring to a boil.

Then, add the egg noodles and cook for about 7 minutes.

Then, stir in the cooked chicken followed by the heavy cream. Let the cooked chicken and cream heat up for a few minutes and it’s done and ready to serve!

This creamy chicken noodle soup tastes even better the next day when all fo the flavors have melded.

PRO TIPS

It’s great to warm you up on a cold winter’s day or when you’re feeling under the weather.

Make this delicious and easy homemade Creamy Chicken Noodle Soup recipe for your family and they will think you’re the best mom ever but, I’m sure they already think that!

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