This Easy Chicken and Rice Soup Recipe is so easy to make, and you can turn this into a big, full meal to feed an entire family this hearty soup with a nice chunk of crusty bread and a big old baked potato on the side.
Easy Chicken and Rice Soup Recipe
As fall settles in, the temperatures are dropping - YES, even in Miami we had 61 degrees this week!! We find ourselves spending more time indoors, battling the common cold or dodging the flu season, and all we crave is to sink into our soft, plush sofa with a cozy blanket with a nice warm bowl of soup. So make this Easy Chicken and Rice Soup!
Why you will love this easy Chicken Soup Recipe
Picture this: a steaming bowl of Easy Chicken and Rice soup, its fragrant aroma enveloping the room, perfectly nestled on our laps, warming our hands as we take each comforting spoonful. One of the things I love most about cooking soup for dinner is that the fragrant aroma fills the house - although it makes it a bit difficult to wait for dinner time!!
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How to Make This Easy Chicken and Rice Soup Recipe
Ingredients you need to make an Easy Chicken and Rice Soup Recipe
- 4-5 medium to large carrots
- 2 large chicken breasts, cooked
- 1 small head of organic broccoli
- 1 medium to small onion
- 3-6 garlic cloves
- 4 cups chicken stock, we try to use homemade when we have it on hand, but store bought absolutely works as well.
- 1 package instant rice, the one shown is our favorite
- salt and pepper to taste
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Directions for how to make an Easy Chicken and Rice Soup Recipe
Start by washing your vegetables, peel the carrots, chop the onion as large or small as you like. Mince the garlic or leave it whole, we tend to leave it whole.
In a medium to large pot, heat the chicken stock to a boil. I save the tops of the broccoli to finely chop and toss into the soup right before it comes off the heat.
The rest of the broccoli I chop in thin slices just like the carrots and toss in to cook all together with the onion and garlic in the chicken stock.
Cook the carrots and broccoli just as you normally would. You can turn off the heat just before they hit the tenderness that you prefer for the vegetables.
Add the already cooked chicken to the soup, you can chop it or break it up with your hands into smaller pieces.
Stir in the instant or precooked rice and tips of the broccoli, cover and let sit for about 5 minutes.
In which container to serve the rice and chicken soup?
To serve and even cook your chicken rice soup in the best possible way, opt for porcelain utensils, more precisely French dinnerware. These dishes are very popular with the public and have many qualities, including :
- Shock resistant: porcelain tableware is made of kaolin, feldspar, chalk, clay and quartz. These elements are fired together to obtain a solid and very resistant material over time. It is important to specify that the utensils of this material resist as much to the mechanical shocks as to the thermal shocks.
- Easy to clean: it is very easy to clean porcelain, since it has a very smooth and non-stick surface. For this reason, porcelain is in great demand.
- Hygienic: this material is impermeable, so it does not absorb grease or bacteria during use. This avoids any transfer of taste from one food to another, and also avoids possible contamination. Also, these utensils are made only of natural materials free of chemicals and heavy metals.
- Aesthetics: French porcelain tableware is fine, shiny and beautifully decorated. It brings a certain elegance to the table and a real added value to the meals it contains.
Serve this delicious soup up with an equally easy slow cooker baked potato on the side, or maybe with some soda bread and enjoy!
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Easy Chicken and Rice Soup
Ingredients
- 4-5 medium to large carrots
- 2 large chicken breasts cooked
- 1 small head of organic broccoli
- 1 medium to small onion
- 3-6 garlic cloves
- 4 cups chicken stock we try to use homemade when we have it on hand, but store bought absolutely works as well.
- 1 package instant rice the one shown is our favorite
- salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Start by washing your vegetables, peel the carrots, chop the onion as large or small as you like.
- Mince the garlic or leave it whole, we tend to leave it whole.
- In a medium to large pot, heat the chicken stock to a boil.
- I save the tops of the broccoli to finely chop and toss into the soup right before it comes off the heat.
- The rest of the broccoli I chop in thin slices just like the carrots and toss in to cook all together with the onion and garlic in the chicken stock.
- Cook the carrots and broccoli just as you normally would. You can turn off the heat just before they hit the tenderness that you prefer for the vegetables.
- Add the already cooked chicken to the soup, you can chop it or break it up with your hands into smaller pieces.
- Stir in the instant or precooked rice and tips of the broccoli, cover and let sit for about 5 minutes.
- Serve and enjoy!
Emma Smith says
Hi Jenn,
The soup is amazing!! I made it in the morning for my husband.
Thanks for sharing this awesome recipe.