I’ll take seconds! Chicken with wild rice soup.
December 26, 2012 by Alison
I know. I know. I am on a serious soup kick! I am obsessed with soups in the winter. Big chunks of goodness all in one hot little bowl. Yum.
Chicken rice soup that is super duper easy and amazingly good.
Start with a bit of Bouillon. MSG free, of course. Add 4 Tablespoons to a big pot of water.
Cook your chicken in the boiling water. I know…gasp…boiled chicken. It’s good. Cook it and then chop it up and put it back in the water.
While the chicken is cooking start making that rice tender! Rice. Brown. Read the back of the bag to see how the rice brand would have it cooked.
So, the chicken and rice are cooking. Good. Grab the celery, carrots, and onions. There were onions in this recipe…they must have skipped the photo shoot!
Chop them up. Saute the carrots and onions. Onions will turn into a light brown caramel color.
Add the sauteed onions and carrots to the pot of chicken broth and chicken. Then add the chopped celery. Let boil for 5 minutes so that the veggies become a bit soft.
When the rice is soft add it to the pot too.
And then…you are done. I am re-looking at these pictures remembering how good this was…I think we will have this for dinner tonight! This. Is. Good.
Ingredients Instructions
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Yum! I’ve been looking for a good chicken and wild rice soup recipe for a while! This one looks tasty and healthy! Thank you
Yes please. I’ll take that for lunch, and dinner. And maybe tomorrow for breakfast.
This has been a staple in our home ever since you served it for us for dinner forever ago! I love it! And I can’t believe how easy it is. I still do mine your crock pot version – just throw it all in (except rice) and let it cook for 3 or 4 hours. Then add rice before serving. Perfect for those busy days when you are running around all day because then you come home to yummy homemade chicken noodle soup for dinner! Thanks for teaching me how to make this, Alison!
This sounds really good!! Do you precook the chicken, carrots, celery & onion when you use the crockpot method?
Thanks!
This looks so good! I actually have everything I need to make it in my fridge right now!! I love easy dinners. Thanks Alison!
This sounds delish, & I’ve already pinned it! Love soup recipes.
This was delicious and so easy too! Thankyou for sharing, it came just when I needed it,a crazy day with no time to spend worrying about dinner. We had already had brown rice twice this week so I switched it to noodles, fabulous!
I love Better Than Bullion! This soup looks delicious, never thought to use brown basmati rice. We usually get brown jasmine. Will look out for this!
Your soup sounds good, but I have found that you can make the broth, and bring to a boil, and then if you will bake your chicken, till tender, that baked chicken added to a broth, seems to give it a better flavor. And I had a mother that always pressure cooked the chicken to make soup, which I did for years, but after reading one of Barefoot Contessa’s cookbooks, she baked it, and I like it so much better. Thanks, you have a nice site.
I can’t wait to make this soup. It looks delicious and so simple.
Sounds delicious and I’ll make it soon. Will probably use wild rice, though.
This soup looks delicious!!! I just have a question: in Mexico we use to serve a soup, and a second dish. Is this recipe like “all in one” dish?
Greetings from Mexico!!!
Delicious and so easy, Thank you!