I wish this blog had smell-o-vision. My house smells amazing, and I have one happy family tonight. Get ready to enjoy one of my most requested meals... Everyone asks me for the recipe! It is seriously the best homemade chicken noodle soup you will ever have.
{Note: This is a double batch and makes a lot of soup. We like to have leftovers for a couple days' worth of lunches!}
Ingredients
- 1 bag of carrots
- whole cut-up chicken
- 1 carton low sodium chicken stock or broth
- 16 chicken bouillon cubes
- a couple shakes of salt
- 1 tsp pepper
- 1/2 cup poultry seasoning
...and for the noodles...
- 4 cups unbleached flour
- 2 tsp salt
- 6 egg yolks
- 2 whole eggs
- 1/4-1/2 cup water
Directions
- Boil chicken in a large stockpot with 16 cups of water. (We use a 12 qt. stockpot, and it works perfectly.)
- Remove the chicken {keeping the broth in the pot on high heat} and pull apart. Set aside.
- Add the chicken stock or broth, as well as bouillon cubes, salt, pepper, and poultry seasoning. Stir a few times, and allow bouillon to dissolve as you move on to step four.
- Wash, peel, and cut carrots. {You may wish to add celery and onion as well. We leave that out in our house.}
- Add carrots and chicken to the stockpot. Cover pot and allow to boil until carrots are done.
- Make the noodles.
- Mix eggs and egg yolks together in a small bowl.
- In a large mixing bowl, add flour, salt, eggs. Add water in a few tablespoons at a time. The amount of water needed will vary. Knead dough with hands. The dough should be moist {not ooey gooey sticky} and all ingredients incorporated.
- Roll out to desired thickness on a floured cutting board, and cut into strips.
- Add strips to boiling soup. Noodles will float when done.
- When noodles are done, cover the stockpot. Cook on low heat for 20 minutes.
- Taste test the soup, and add more poultry seasoning and/or pepper {not salt} if needed.
We like our noodles on the thick side. They are sooooo delicious!
Tip: I keep empty spaghetti sauce jars and mason jars in the cupboard to store this in smaller batches in the fridge, and also to give jars of soup to sick friends/family/church members/new moms/etc.
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