This easy homemade chicken noodle soup is absolutely soul warming, cure-you-from-illness chicken noodle soup. So good and good for you!
Last week everyone in the house had colds but me. I bragged about how “I really think it has to do with me working at a hospital. I’m like super immune or something.”
And as if working in an ER with a bunch of sick patients all around isn’t enough to make ya wish you walked around in a bubble, being at home… completely surrounded by sickness might be worse. AND I can only handle hearing so much sniffling and complaining before I wanna scream. So for dinner I made us all grilled cheese sandwiches and a big pot of chicken noodle soup and guess what… everyone’s better!
But me.
After all the kiss-dodging, hand washing and Lysol spraying I still caught their colds. And now I’m sitting here with chapped lips, a wadded up tissue stuck up my left nostril and breathing through my mouth. Pretty glamorous huh? Yeah-not. {I am, however drinking a delicious glass of Cabernet! *winning!*}
Start by roasting a chicken or if you’re short on time, use a rotisserie chicken. Next, pluck all the white and dark meat off of the bones.
Then throw the shredded chicken into a measuring cup (or bowl) and stick it in the fridge for later, saving the carcass to use in making the stock.
For the stock you’ll need to prep some veggies. One carrot, one celery stalk and one small onion.
Meanwhile; throw the chicken carcass into a large pot that has a tablespoon of oil in it and has been heating over medium high heat until slightly browned, 8 or so minutes.
Throw in the chopped parsley, thyme and prepped veggies. Then just toss it around.
Pour in the 12 cups of filtered water and scrape any brown bits that are on the bottom of the pan.
Drop in a bay leaf…
And a half teaspoon or so of whole black pepper corns.
Bring up to a simmer, reduce the heat to medium-low and keep a lid on it for 1-2 hours.
When the time is up, drain and discard all those nasty bits catching the broth into a clean pot or Dutch oven.
LOOK! You should now have a giant pot of stock.
For the soup you will need one small diced onion, two carrots and two celerystalks. All diced up the same size.
Fresh thyme, minced.
And the only noodles that are meant for chicken noodle soup. Kluski. You’ll want 2 cups.
Add in the fresh chopped thyme…
Kosher salt…
Black pepper…
And 4 packets of flavor boosting liquid bouillon. I’m lucky to find these natural ones at my grocery store, they don’t make it overly salty… and they really boost up the flavor.
In a separate pot, I brought some water up to boil. Seasoned it with a generous amount of sea salt, and then threw in the noodles. I cooked them as directed on the package which was about 7 minutes.
Once the vegetables are tender, I added in the two cups of shredded chicken.
Then the drained noodles.
Stirrrrrrr.
And poof. Soup.
The BEST easy homemade chicken noodle soup!
So you probably thinking: um Laur, don’t you already have a chicken noodle soup recipe on here? I do-I do! But this Easy Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup is so much better. That soup was so three years ago, and I’m a little more experienced in the kitchen. Yeah. So I took that old ditty, and flipped the switch and made it more scratch-y.
This bowl of goodness is just what ya need when you are chapped, stuffy, achy and in need of a hot and hearty bowl of soup to sooth your soul. Now who wants to come over and make me some? Becud I kent breeve.
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Laurie, I hope you feel better soon!!!
I’ve been sick for the last 2 weeks and made 3 batches of chicken noodle soup already. It’s better than any medicine. My mom used to make it for us whenever we got sick and I swear it has healing properties!
My mom did too… and I totally agree!
Oh no! I hope you feel better soon. I think I’m coming down with something so I might go home and make industrial quantities of chicken noodle soup…
Chicken soup is the best. Hope you are feeling better!
Thanks Rina!
Hope you feel better soon. I need to make a batch of this while I’m not sick and freeze it. Homemade chicken soup is the best treatment I know.
Isn’t it funny how we’ll keep recreating older recipes as we continue this journey? I haven’t had homemade chicken noodle soup in far too long.
Oh this looks heavenly. I have a sore throat myself and I think that would just do the trick!
Ps. Are you going to the Daily Buzz Food Fest this weekend? If so, we should totally meet up!
Come to mama!!
I needed a big bowl of this a couple days ago when the weather changed and the snotty noses kicked in!
You will definitely be getting a call when I don’t feel good!
Deal 🙂
This looks so comforting… I bookmarked this for the next cold I get! Thank you!
I love chicken noodle soup and this looks so easy!!
I feel warm & cozy just looking at this soup!
Hi Laurie! Sorry you “kent breeve”! Hope you feel better soon! Thanks for sharing the recipe! Sounds delish! Blessings from Bama!
I could’ve used a HUGE batch of this last week when I wasn’t feeling well Laurie!! I hope YOU feel better soon Laurie. Keep your chin up!
Grilled cheese and chicken noodle soup is the BEST! Hope everyone is on the mend!
Feel better! And I always need a nice bowl of soothing chicken noodle soup – even when I’m not sick! I also love that this is made with homemade chicken stock!
Thank you Chung-Ah!
When I’m sick the only things that I want to eat are grilled cheese, soup, and oatmeal.
Being sick is so blaaaah, so I hope y’all feel better soon!
Chicken soup is my favorite way to feel better when I’m sick or just feeling down. I love my mom’s recipe for nostaligic reasons but yours sure does look wonderful.
ahh, being sick sucks – i hope you feel better. i love homemade chicken noodle soup when i’m sick – it seriously does make you feel so good and warm and comforts you! jason makes me his signature chicken noodle all the time when i’m sick – i don’t know why i haven’t shared the recipe yet haha
Thanks Julie! Ohhh and please do share!
You have better been over this sickness when we had our blog chats the other night. I’m not down with the sniffles! 😉 Looks awesome. Feel free to bring me some Friday because I’m sure your germs will have attacked my perfectly healthy “hospital” immunity by then. 😉
All jokes aside. Hope you’re feelin better.
I was just starting with a sore throat that night… then it got worse on Tuesday! 🙁 I did enjoy our chat though 😀
Chicken soup is called sopas in some parts of the Philippines.
I remember not feeling well back then when I was there and a friend cooked sopas for me (chicken soup with macaroni cubes and a lot of other local ingredients) and after taking it I almost got my strength back immediately.
There is really something in chicken soups that it makes us recover immediately from sickness. 🙂
I pretty positive it’s in the bones { I know gross huh?} but it’s magical!
Cold’s are awful, I hope you feel better. I’m pretty sure with this soup though you will make a speedy recovery in no time. Chicken noodle soup cures the soul.
Wonderful chicken soup, adding noodles just made it heavenly 🙂
I hope you feel better soon! Grilled cheese and soup is like my ultimate go to comfort meal even when im not sick. This soup soo good and I have only recently discovered the amazingness that is those liquid flavor boosters.
It sucks working in a petri dish. I work at a school, and kids are always handing me their cellphones, to talk to their parents. Yikes! I wash my hands a lot. My family just got over colds, and so far, I’m unscathed. I say that with caution though. I just made chicken soup, and smiled that we make ours the same. I’ve not seen those noodles, before, so I need to keep my eyes open for them. It’s a minor thing, but I found that making chicken soup in a pasta pot makes things easier. I can just lift out the liner and I have stock! I always roast my chicken, too, because I think it gives more depth of flavor. Nicely done. Wishing you a speedy recovery.
Hope you feel better soon. This soup is perfect for fall, and feeling better!
There’s nothing better than a good bowl of homemade chicken noodle soup when you have a cold! I hope you get to feeling better soon!
I just found your blog and love it! I hope you feel better soon! I know what you mean about the immunity, I work at a hospital too and I always get this cocky, ain’t gonna happen to me attitude when cold season rolls around. This soup looks fantastic though.
I love it! I’m around sick people all the time at the hospital I work at, and I usually only get sick when my fiance is ill. What’s up with that? I feel you on the clean bubble. I come home from work every night and take a scalding hot shower to kill the germs of the hospital off my body. I hate how nasty I feel from a 12 shift on the orthopedic floor, I can’t imagine how you feel in the ER!
I am actually making this today! Yum! I was just curious however, if you thought it might freeze well? I just wasn’t sure because of the noodles.
Thinking this would be something great to have on hand during the winter months. 🙂
Hi Deana! I would probably freeze before adding the noodles. And just make fresh ones on the day you reheat the soup. Hope this helps!:)
It does, thank you! 🙂
This soup is awesome! I actually enjoyed it more than your other chicken noodle soup. It is so flavorful and was so easy to make. I am 7 mos pregnant and my baby loves it too. He was kicking both times I ate some. Another winner. Thanks Laurie.
That’s what I thought.. the other one was too bland! Glad you and baby liked it 🙂
I love reading everything you write!! So well said and so well done!!
Thanks Laurie!!
Out of all the “homemade” chicken noodle soup I’ve perused, yours is by far the best. Canned broth and chunked breast the other recipes call for ain’t gonna cut it! And by using kluski, you are my instant hero. *hint- I always add a splash of a good dry white wine. Kudos to you!!!!!
Thanks so much..the sick hubby loved it! Great,rustic flavors..perfect and so simple!
its snowing here in East tenn today so making this with a pan of Cornbread for dinner tonight, have made before and it is great, very healing and wonderful on a cold day..Thank you for sharing..
I used this recipe to make soup for my sick honey… It’s amazingly delicious! Also very easy for those of us who haven’t the time or patience to roast our own chicken 0.0 – thank you for sharing this! I will say that I added a teaspoon of turmeric to the stockpot and it imparted a lovely golden color to the resulting soup. 🙂
Thanks Nicole! I’ll have to try that next time! Thanks for stopping by!
I must say even though it is not fully cooked yet, the family has already taste tested and given two thumbs up. Only way that I modified the recipe was I added Okra. I’m super excited and cannot wait till its finished.when you have to sick children and you are sick yourself as well as a sick husband you are desperate for homemade chicken noodle soup. I love the part that you are essentially Frying the carcass for the purposes of broth. Super excited cannot wait. Thanks for your time and I hope you’re better by now.
Superb recipe!
Merci!
Thanks bunches for this recipe! It was very tasty and just what this sick teacher needed!
Can’t wait to make this! I couldn’t find liquid stock though. What else would you suggest?
Thanks!
I would recommend just using two boullion cubes 🙂
My only problem is I specifically went to this website and this recipe for a from scratch recipe. This recipe is not from scratch. Not at all. You didn’t cook your own chicken, you added flavoring packets to your broth instead of just making a good one from scratch to start with. Disappointing that I went here and was mislead. You should just call your recipes simple not from scratch. Not cool.
Hi Sue! While I respect your opinion about this soup I kindly have to disagree. From scratch means different things to different people. I for one do my best to cook 100% from scratch whenever possible. However sometimes life gets in the way (hence this post being about my whole family being sick) and not everyone can nor wants to roast their own chicken in order to make soup (although I think it’s fantastic!). Typically I just use leftover chicken from a previous dinner and as I stated in the post I didn’t have any, so I just improvised with what I could to use as leftover chicken. But by all means go for it and roast away :). As for your comment on the broth; since that post went live a few years ago I’ve doubled the veggies and some of the herbs and stopped adding the bouillon. Either way I don’t feel that all natural liquid bouillon deems a soup un-scratch worthy, not at all. And I also don’t feel as if I’m misleading anyone, the recipes on my blog are simple… and from scratch to whatever degree I feel that works best. But as I said earlier “from scratch” means different things to everyone. Thanks for stopping by!
This was phenomenal! I used a rotisserie chicken and made the stock ahead of time, then put the soup together after work one night. My husband said it’s the best chicken noodle soup he’s ever had. 🙂
I’m so glad Mandy! 🙂
I absolutely love this recipe!! Although I add my own touch to it, no real change, but it is a clean, refreshing, warm, yummy, (I could keep going…) best chicken soup recipe by far. Thank you!!
I do wonder though… Why does every recipe (of any soup with noodles) tell you to cook them before adding? I just throw the uncooked noodles in, let the post simmer for another ten mins and it is done, easy. Just curious to know if there is a reason for it?
Just put together chicken noodle soup without baking the chicke
No need to be sick for this one.
It is a great soup for anytime with rich flavor. Thanks again for a good and quick recipe.
I’m so happy you enjoyed it Tracy!