Literally the BEST Chicken Soup! It has thick chicken chunks, sliced carrots and celery, egg noodles soaking in a from scratch bone broth filled with flavorful seasonings and simmered to perfection.
INGREDIENTS
Bone Broth
1 Chicken Carcass with skin, bones & chunks of meat still attached
Olive oil
5-6 cups of water (or however much you need to cover bones evenly in large pot)
Optional: (for a bone & vegetable broth)
1 carrot cut in half
1 celery stem
2-3 sprigs of fresh thyme
Soup
2 tbsp olive oil
1 medium onion, diced
6-8 carrots, chunks
3-4 celery sticks, diced (greens included)
3-4 cloves of garlic, pressed
1/2 cup frozen green peas (optional)
Chicken picked clean from bones stained from the broth
Broth saved from boiling bones
2-3 tbsp thyme
1 tbsp Salt
1/2 tsp black pepper
2 cups egg noodles (or really whichever noodles you have on hand)
INSTRUCTIONS
Bone Broth
In a large pot add olive oil and chicken carcass including any left over bones, skin and meat, brown bones for 5 minutes.
Then add chunks of vegetables and thyme as well as cold water, enough to fully cover bones. Cook for a few hours on a medium high heat, stirring every so often, you made need to add more water as the broth cools, be sure to keep an eye on your broth!
Once broth has reached a nice golden brown color, strain bone and broth into a large strainer placed inside a metal bowl. Strain bones from broth. Place bone broth and bones aside.
Soup
In same large pot add olive oil, diced onion, carrots and celery. Cook on a medium heat until tender. If things are getting too hot in the pot add a splash or two of the bone broth you set aside earlier.
While vegetables are cooking separate chicken meat from bones. Throw bones away and place meat chunks in another medium bowl. Set aside for later.
Add pressed garlic to vegetables in pot, cook for a few minutes. Then add frozen peas if you like!
Add chicken into vegetable mixture as well as all remaining bone broth. Add in bay leaf, thyme and salt & pepper.
Bring soup to a low boil and cook for another 30 minutes.
Then add egg noodles, cook according to package (10 minutes or so) until tender. Adjust spices & enjoy!
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