Best 5 Hearty Italian Chicken And Vegetable Soup Recipes

HEARTY CHICKEN VEGETABLE SOUP I

Steps:

• Place chicken, onion, celery, salt, basil, and pepper in a 10 quart stock pot. Fill stock pot with water until ingredients are fully covered and bring to a boil. Let simmer for 1 and 1/2 hours or until chicken is tender.
• Remove chicken from pot with slotted spoon and set aside for later.
• Add carrots, squash, zucchini, mushrooms, red pepper, tortellini, chicken soup base and uncooked noodles to stock pot and increase temperature to medium heat.
• While noodles and vegetables are cooking, tear chicken apart from bones. Cut up into pieces and add to soup in stock pot. Be sure to add additional water if ingredients are not fully covered. Bring to a boil, then reduce to a simmer for about 10 minutes or just until noodles are cooked. Enjoy

PERFECT CHICKEN VEGETABLE SOUP

Steps:

• Heat vegetable oil in a large pot over medium heat. Add chicken breasts, onion, and garlic; cook and stir until chicken is no longer pink in the center, about 5 minutes.
• Pour chicken broth into the pot; bring to a boil. Stir in potatoes, cabbage, and carrot. Simmer soup until potatoes are tender, 30 to 40 minutes.
• Bring soup back to a boil. Drizzle in eggs, stirring until cooked, about 1 minute. Season with salt and pepper.

HEARTY ITALIAN CHICKEN VEGETABLE SOUP

Steps:

• In a large stock pot on high heat, Sauté the chicken, onions, and celery in olive oil until chicken if browned and onions are translucent, (if using the crock-pot, uses a skillet for this step).
• For Stove top: Add remaining ingredients and bring to a boil.
• Once the soup comes to a medium boil reduce heat to a simmer.
• Soup should just gently bubble from here on out.
• After 30 minute do a taste test of the broth add additional spices to your taste.
• simmer for an additional hour then test vegetables for doneness.
• For Crock-Pot: Transfer ingredients from skillet and add remaining ingredients.
• Set crockpot on high for two hours then reduce to low.
• After 2 hours do a taste test of the broth add additional spices to your taste.
• Let simmer for an additional 4 hours.
• (Warning if you have a high powered crock-pot and the soup begins to boil to hard reduce the setting to warm if it has one, otherwise unplug your crock-pot for awhile).

HEARTY ITALIAN SOUP

Steps:

• In a large saucepan, cook the sausage, onion and green pepper until sausage is browned; drain. Stir in the tomatoes, water, tomato sauce, sugar, bouillon and garlic powder. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 15 minutes, stirring occasionally. , Stir in macaroni. Cover and simmer 10-15 minutes longer or until macaroni is tender. Sprinkle with cheese.

HEARTY CHICKEN AND VEGETABLE SOUP

Steps:

• Heat oil in a large saucepan over medium heat. Add leek and garlic. Cook, stirring, for 2 minutes or until soft but not coloured.
• Add carrot, celery, zucchini and swede. Cook for 2 minutes.
• Stir in soup mix, stock, chicken and 1 cup cold water. Increase heat to high. Bring to the boil.
• Reduce heat to low. Simmer, partially covered, stirring occasionally, for 1 hour or until soup mix and vegetables are tender add a little more water/stock if required.
• Remove chicken legs from soup. Allow to cool slightly. Remove meat from bones.
• Roughly chop chicken meat and add to soup.
• Season with salt and pepper.
• Ladle soup into bowls. Serve.