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Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Chicken noodle soup


Chicken Noodle soup

Ingredients

  1. 2 cups cooked chicken breasts cut into 1 cm cubes
  2. 1 medium small onion chopped fine
  3. 1 medium carrot chopped fine
  4. 2 cup egg noodles
  5. 1/2 tablespoon each of olive oil, butter
  6. 3 large garlic chopped fine
  7. 1/2 teaspoon salt or as needed
  8. 1/4-1/2 teaspoon fresh ground black pepper
  9. 1/2 teaspoon Italian seasoning or dried oregano (the magic ingredient)
  10. 3-4 cups water or chicken stock
  11. 2 tablespoons all purpose flour (optional)

In a heavy bottomed pan het the oil and butter and fry the onions till tender. Add garlic and fry for 30 seconds. Add chicken and fry for 5 minutes. Add carrots and fry for 5 more minutes. Add the rest of the ingredients and 4 cups water or broth and bring to a boil. Simmer for 5 minutes. Add the egg noodles and keep boiling as needed ( mine needed 10 minutes) . 
If you like a brothy soup ...you are done!) Enjoy

If you like your soup not so brothy mix the all-purpose flour in 1/4 cup water and stir into soup before simmering 5 minutes. Enjoy a piping hot bowl of chicken noodle soup