I modified a soup recipe tonight that was a huge, HUGE hit with my family. Mike raved with every bite, the kids asked for more, I was even pretty impressed with myself. And now I'll to write down what I did before I forget!
Ingredients:
2-3 chicken breasts* (I use frozen chicken)
2 cups chicken broth*
1 cup onion, finely chopped**
1 cup celery, finely chopped**
1 cup carrot, finely chopped**
1 cup pre-sliced mushrooms
1 garlic clove, minced
3 Tablespoons butter
1/4 cup flour
2 cups milk (skim is fine)
2 cups small broccoli florets
1 cup half and half
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon black pepper
4-6 oz. angel hair pasta or thin spaghetti, broken into 2-3 inch pieces
Directions:
- IN THE MORNING - place chicken breasts and chicken broth in the crock pot. Cook on low for 6-8 hours, until the chicken shreds easily with two forks. Shred the chicken in the crock pot and leave it on low while you do the following...
- 2-3 hours before you want to eat, coat a pan with cooking spray and put on medium-high heat. Add onion, celery, carrot, mushroom and garlic to the pan. Saute 5 minutes or until liquid evaporates, stirring occasionally.
- Reduce heat to medium and add the butter to the pan, stirring until the butter melts.
- Sprinkle vegetable mixture with flour and cook 2 minutes.
- Gradually add the milk and cook 10 minutes or until the mixture thickens slightly, stirring consistently.
- To the crock pot, add the broccoli, half and half, salt, pepper and the vegetable mixture. Cook on low for 2 hours, until the broccoli is tender.
- 15 minutes before you're ready to serve the soup, add the pasta to the crock pot and cook on high until it's softened, about 12-15 minutes.
- Top each serving with shredded cheddar cheese.
* for a vegetarian soup, eliminate the chicken and replace the chicken broth with vegetable broth
** "finely chopped" is about 1/4 inch pieces
(Next time, I'm going to try dumping everything in the crock pot in the morning, shredding the chicken at the end. I would need to figure out how to incorporate the flour without resulting in clumps, and I'd need to add the broccoli later in the day, but if anyone tries this method, let me know how it turns out!)
- 2-3 hours before you want to eat, coat a pan with cooking spray and put on medium-high heat. Add onion, celery, carrot, mushroom and garlic to the pan. Saute 5 minutes or until liquid evaporates, stirring occasionally.
- Reduce heat to medium and add the butter to the pan, stirring until the butter melts.
- Sprinkle vegetable mixture with flour and cook 2 minutes.
- Gradually add the milk and cook 10 minutes or until the mixture thickens slightly, stirring consistently.
- To the crock pot, add the broccoli, half and half, salt, pepper and the vegetable mixture. Cook on low for 2 hours, until the broccoli is tender.
- 15 minutes before you're ready to serve the soup, add the pasta to the crock pot and cook on high until it's softened, about 12-15 minutes.
- Top each serving with shredded cheddar cheese.
* for a vegetarian soup, eliminate the chicken and replace the chicken broth with vegetable broth
** "finely chopped" is about 1/4 inch pieces
(Next time, I'm going to try dumping everything in the crock pot in the morning, shredding the chicken at the end. I would need to figure out how to incorporate the flour without resulting in clumps, and I'd need to add the broccoli later in the day, but if anyone tries this method, let me know how it turns out!)
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3 comments:
This sounds and looks so yummy. Thanks for sharing it with us, can't wait to make it.
sounds delicious. can't wait to try it
We had it tonight and it was delicious! Thank you!
Of course I can't follow a recipe exactly for some reason... here's what I did:
I had some frozen cream of celery soup that I had made and wanted to get out of the freezer. So I put that in at the beginning with the broth, chicken, onion and carrots and let them cook all day. I added some milk and cream with the broccoli later and the noodles at the very end, too, like the recipe says.
I like broccoli but am not a huge fan of broccoli soups, but this had enough other flavors that I liked it very much!
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