Chicken Zoodle Soup
Perfection in a bowl!!
Servings: 4
Ingredients
- chicken breast, thighs, or whole chicken apx 3 cups, cooked, shredded
- 3 carrots diced
- 1 sweet onion diced
- 2 celery diced
- 1-2 cloves garlic minced fine
- 6 cups chicken/bone broth
- 2 tsp tumeric
- 2 tsp dill
- 2 tsp fresh ginger grated
- 1 lemon juice & zest
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp pepper
- 2 zucchini zoodles reserve for just before serving
Instructions
- Drizzle olive or avocado oil in a large Dutch oven or soup pot. Add onion, carrots, celery soften veggies apx 3-5 mins add garlic for about a min then add 6 cups broth I like to mix chicken bone broth and chicken broth or make your own. Add turmeric, dill, fresh ginger, lemon, zest and juice simmer on very low 20 mins**or toss all in the instant pot on soup setting for 5 mins. Then add 2-4 cups of shredded cooked chicken and 1-2 cups zoodles * Few teaspoons of fresh parsley and thyme Zoodles: 1-2 zucchini made into “zoodles” sprinkle well with salt and allow to sweat out the moisture (at least 20 mins) place in kitchen towel and drain well then toss in a 250 oven for 10 mins and you’ll be amazed at how much more flavor they have. Or if you don’t have the time just toss them in your soup but DO NOT skip the salt and draining step! This is key! This soup is delish and will really make anyone feel loved!!! Ta Ta for now- Kat
Notes
One of my most favorite things to make is a big ole pot of Chicken Soup. Now typically that includes egg noodles, dumpling, or even rice but now that I have discovered that my body really doesn’t do well with gluten or wheat or dairy (gasp!) I am adapting my family favorite comfort food recipes so that I can enjoy them too! Packed with flavor and to be frank no one would be the wiser! Chicken Zoodle Soup Want to know what makes really good soup?
A really flavorful broth! How do you get one? Well, you have a few options. And let me be honest I have made it every way I am sharing with you and only the foodiest of foodies can really tell a big difference. If you have the time then go with option A. If you are short on time then you can go with Option B, and be proud that you got a real meal on the table!! Congrats! or mix it up based on what you have!
Chicken:
A: start with split chicken breast, thighs, legs, whatever you fancy salt and pepper well and either roast in 375 oven for 40 mins OR toss in instant pot w 1 cup of water, high pressure 20 mins or 25 if frozen.
B: rotisserie chicken it’s the BEST shortcut ever!!
Broth:
A: take the bones and skin along with fresh herbs and what you would discard from the carrots, onions, celery, and whatever other veggies you would put in your soup and dump in instant pot w 6 cups of water salt, pepper, garlic and cook on high pressure for 80 mins
B: buy bone broth and chicken broth at the grocery make sure to buy a quality broth without msg, gluten, or any added sugar