Our Favorite Chicken Soup

This simple chicken soup is comforting, inexpensive, and it's our favorite. The kids love it. Add a piece of homemade bread with butter on the side and you're in heaven. I make it every other week or so and anytime someone gets a cold.


Our Favorite Chicken Soup

1 whole chicken
1 onion
2 stalks of celery
2 carrots

But the above ingredients in a large crockpot and fill with water until 1 inch below the rim. Cook on low for 6 hours or high for 4 hours. Remove the chicken and dice into chunks. If you end up with more meat then you need for the soup, save it for another recipe or chicken salad. Discard the veggies and strain and save the broth (I don't skim the fat from the broth).

3 stalks of celery, large dice
5-6 carrots, large dice
olive oil
2-3 cups of cooked chicken
reserved broth
salt and pepper to taste
frozen peas

In a large soup pot, saute carrots and celery in a bit of olive oil and the chicken fat that has risen to the top of the broth. Saute until are tender but still firm. Add chicken, chicken broth, and frozen peas. Bring to a simmer and add salt and pepper to taste. Simmer just until the peas have been heated through. Serve and enjoy!