Grocery Day Super Soup
When you have a busy day ahead of you, but you want to bless your beloved family something delicious to bring you all together, I recommend my easy, creamy soup.
There are two secrets to making this soup amazing:
1. The stock. You can either make your own stock (boil down chicken frames with onions, celery, and seasonings), or you can purchase a good, quality chicken stock. I have found a great one that is sold everywhere (although it's cheaper in some stores than in others!). It comes in a carton (not a can), and is range-free, organic chicken stock. I can also buy it in a "creamy" version, which I definitely indulge in for this soup! I will NOT buy chicken broth in a can. Most brands (check labels) add MSG (monosodium glutamate, honey, and it's NOT good for you!), but the organic broths are sold without this additive.
2. The chicken. I buy already-cooked rotisserie chickens at the final stop on my shopping day, and when I arrive home, I have juicy, flavorful chicken ready to cut up and put into my soup. It's SO simple...you will love it.
Here's the easy, Thirty-Minutes-to-Dinner recipe:
(Serves 12)
3 large cartons (24 oz) organic chicken broth
1 large carton (24 oz) creamy organic chicken broth
1 rotisserie chicken, cut up into soup-sized bites
1 yellow onion, chopped small
3 carrots, cleaned and sliced into paper thin rounds (this helps not only in cooking them quickly, but in kid-appeal as well!)
2 cloves garlic, minced small
2-12 oz pkgs. pasta of your choice (or cooked brown rice works well, too!)
In a large soup pot (of course), stir together all of the broth and the cut up chicken. Add the onion, carrots, and garlic. Cover, and bring to a quick boil. Add the pasta, and cook until al dente (not until it's become porridge, darling...this isn't that kind of recipe!).
Serve a hot, yummy meal to your family with rolls or garlic bread, and enjoy the easy clean-up!
Fresco e bello ~ Try specialty pastas for a fun touch - alphabet, stars, and even elbow macaroni can be fun alternative to keep the family guessing!
There are two secrets to making this soup amazing:
1. The stock. You can either make your own stock (boil down chicken frames with onions, celery, and seasonings), or you can purchase a good, quality chicken stock. I have found a great one that is sold everywhere (although it's cheaper in some stores than in others!). It comes in a carton (not a can), and is range-free, organic chicken stock. I can also buy it in a "creamy" version, which I definitely indulge in for this soup! I will NOT buy chicken broth in a can. Most brands (check labels) add MSG (monosodium glutamate, honey, and it's NOT good for you!), but the organic broths are sold without this additive.
2. The chicken. I buy already-cooked rotisserie chickens at the final stop on my shopping day, and when I arrive home, I have juicy, flavorful chicken ready to cut up and put into my soup. It's SO simple...you will love it.
Here's the easy, Thirty-Minutes-to-Dinner recipe:
(Serves 12)
3 large cartons (24 oz) organic chicken broth
1 large carton (24 oz) creamy organic chicken broth
1 rotisserie chicken, cut up into soup-sized bites
1 yellow onion, chopped small
3 carrots, cleaned and sliced into paper thin rounds (this helps not only in cooking them quickly, but in kid-appeal as well!)
2 cloves garlic, minced small
2-12 oz pkgs. pasta of your choice (or cooked brown rice works well, too!)
In a large soup pot (of course), stir together all of the broth and the cut up chicken. Add the onion, carrots, and garlic. Cover, and bring to a quick boil. Add the pasta, and cook until al dente (not until it's become porridge, darling...this isn't that kind of recipe!).
Serve a hot, yummy meal to your family with rolls or garlic bread, and enjoy the easy clean-up!
Fresco e bello ~ Try specialty pastas for a fun touch - alphabet, stars, and even elbow macaroni can be fun alternative to keep the family guessing!
posted by Karen | 12:07 AM
16 Comments:
Man, you're putting up recipes faster than I can try them!
(OTOH, I was going to come over here and demand another recipe. So this could be a good thing)
Maybe I should put up one of my favorites for you!
This one sounds EASY. (though I'm not suere I've seen broth in a carton. is it next to the cans?)
Does this recipe freeze well? (Maybe the part minus the pasta?)
By "chopped small" do you mean diced? Or still in round pieces?
Okay, let's answer these:
*Feel free to email me a recipe! I'll include it!
*Broth in a carton: it's in the natural food section at Fred Meyers, and by the soups at Safeway. But YOU'RE in Bellevue! You could get some great stuff at the Whole Foods Market! *sigh* Whole Foods envy...
*Haven't tried to freeze it, but I think if you just used chicken broth, and not *creamy* chicken broth, you should be able to (pasta or not).
*Chopped small: yes, diced would be a better way to say that. :-)
I know where Whole Foods is -- have been there once. Hadn't thought of going back cause it felt like the prices were high. Admittedly, I havent checked them with my sorta-price notebook.
(I found out today that Easy Mac at Costco is half price to the store prices! I use that lots for work food!)
I should at least check them out for smaller quantities of fresh spices.
Easy Mac? Hm. I'd zip my lips like I should, but here's an idea to try:
Try putting Mama K's spaghetti into individual foil pans (small bread loaf pans) and freeze for a wonderful, tasty, make-em-all-jealous, homemade lunch at work. ('Course, you'd have to pop 'em out onto a plate to micro, or else blow up the silly thing with the foil pan!)
On the other note, I have only been to Whole Foods once, but I loved it. I just wish I had price-compared. I know that the gas to get there is not worth any savings I would procure. *Sigh* Go in proxy for me, 'kay?
OR! Maybe sometime if I'm going I can email you ahead of time and we can meet! Now, that would be fun.
:-D
(Don't be sad, Roberta...Idaho isn't *too* far away!)
Oooh! And right behind Whole Foods is The Crab Pot! Oh, yum. Seafood. It's where we announced to our kids that #5 was in my tummy! Great place. Great memories. FUN TO EAT!
Awww...thanks for thinking of me.
Roberta :)
You miss the whole allure of Easy Mac for me -- no freezer space or refrigeration.
I can keep a box in the drawer at lunch adn then, when I don't have time/don't feel like bringing a lunch to work, I know I have something there and don't end up going out spending ~$8 for eating out in the downtown area.
But does it taste good?
I wouldn't eat it if it didn't!
But then, I like mac and cheese.
(The only problem is that the portion size is a bit small for me. I really need to figure out what to do about that. The mashed potato in a cup I've been eating with it really isn't that cheap at all)
I DO appreciate your suggestion as I plan on trying it for my husband to take to HIS work as he likes meat in his meals :)
I made this soup tonight!
Except -- I don't know where you shop. 1. I couldn't find 24 oz containers, just 32 oz. I didn't see ANY creamy containers.
We used 3 32 oz containers (And at that my Dutch oven was filled clear to the rim!) more food than 2 of us can eat, that's for sure.
Do you use any spices with it? it tasted a bit bland...
Another comment: It's GREAT as leftovers :) I brought it to lunch today and it tastes WONDERFUL.
Still expensive :( If I make my own chicken, and then use the brother with it...maybe...
You know, I just double-checked and mine are 32oz as well. *humble oops*
I guess I don't think of it as expensive because it feeds my whole family and I keep the chicken stock on hand always. So it's just a matter of either cooking up a chicken from the freezer (DON'T use frozen chicken breasts...not the same effect at all!) or buying a rotisserie chicken. Glad you tried it. It's Bep's favorite meal, too, because of the leftovers!
You use 4 32oz?... I don't think that would work for us.
1. My largest pot barely held with only 3.
2. We're not as fond of soups. One of the GOOD things about this was the thickness of it :) (except an exception is that we had a butternut squash soup at a wedding we love and have been trying to reproduce ever since)
3. Where do you get creamy broth from.
4. Do you buy your broth for less than $3/container? Maybe I'm missing something here...
I jsut found over the weekend of organizing, etc a recipe for chinese boiled chicken. I wonder if that would make broth suitable for using. (not brother. sigh)
PS One of the ladies in our class just gave birth and she's getting "Grocery Shop Soup" as part of her meal. :)
I have 4 enormous pots (I mean, bathe-a-baby-in-em size!), and 2 small saucepans. I wish I had something in the middle!
I am not fond of soup, either...at ALL. I like chowder-y soups, though, and I think that's why I like this creamy version.
I get my broth in the natural foods section of our Fred Meyers store; that's where they have the creamy version as well as the normal broth. It's about $2.99 for 32oz. Safeway has it but it's almost a dollar more. FM also has a butternut squash soup in the same area! You should try it and let me know if it's good!!
That's so cool about your new-mama meal! I'm honored! I"m bringing it to a funeral reception on Friday where only soup, bread and brownies will be served. I'll be bringin' one of my jumbo pots of it!
I'm not sure I'd have room to STORE a bathe-a-baby in them size of pot.
What do you mean by small? 2qt? (like one makes mac and cheese in. Though I guess maybe you always make double batches of that?)
Almost the only two pots I use are my 2 2-qt saucepans and my Dutch oven. I have a smaller one for sauces, but it rarely gets used. And I have a vegetable steamer insert that doesn't get used either. And everything else is in storage for lack of place to put it :)
i bought mine at Safeway for $2.99 for 32 oz (I thought) but they didn't have the creamy. (Other brands were $3.29/32 oz. I went the cheapest ones, that were further down the aisle. Don't know why they don't have all the broth together)
I DID see the butternut squash soup and mentioned it to my husband that I want to get that some time to try. He sounded non-committal. (My husband LOVES leftovers. But he's a bit of picky about taste. He grew up in a family where good food was important.)
I did see the
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