In episode 050 we are making Chicken Noodle Soup for Kids for dinner. I know it says “kids” but this chicken soup recipe is flavorful enough for the adults too, promise! It is made with no onions, no celery and no green stuff. Just add a warm baguette like they would get at Panera, some saltine crackers or kettle chips.
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Intro: Welcome everybody to another episode of Let’s Make Dinner, your audio library of amazing dinner recipes you can always get on the table. I’m your host, Susie Weinrich.
Susie Weinrich: I am super excited to share this recipe with you guys today because if you have picky eaters in your house, they are going to love this recipe. We are making chicken noodle soup for the kids for dinner tonight. This is a perfect kid-friendly dinner. It’s full of flavor so the adults can eat it, but not full of ingredients that your kids are going to hate. Like pieces of onion, pieces of garlic, chopped-up celery, and no green stuff; no parsley, nothing that they’re going to turn their nose up at.
Intro: This is a homemade chicken noodle soup with just a few ingredient adjustments. That makes it a perfect kid-friendly dinner, that is great for your picky eaters. I also will tell you that this recipe is famous adjacent. So Jenna Fisher, who played Pam on The Office, made this recipe for her kids and her family for dinner, and everybody loved it and she shared it on Instagram and the recipe blew up. So you can tell your kids that Pam from the office even likes this recipe.
Tips and Tricks: All right, so a couple of tips on a few ingredients when you’re making this chicken noodle soup. Number one, the chicken. I always recommend that you take advantage of the rotisserie chicken either at Costco or at your local grocery store.
It’s super tender and juicy chicken that is perfect in any recipe that calls for cooked chicken. The other option would be to roast a chicken breast in the oven at 350 for about 15 to 20 minutes until it reaches 165. Or you could poach a chicken breast in simmering water. I have a great recipe on Mom’s Dinner that I will link in the show notes for you on how to poach chicken breasts. The last option would be just to use the leftover chicken that you have in your fridge.
Another ingredient I want to chat about is chicken base. So chicken base I always say is like the older, better-looking brother of chicken bouillon. Basically, it’s a paste form of bouillon that has so much more flavor and is so much more delicious. So you will find it in your soup aisle, and I usually purchase the Better Than Bouillon brand. It comes in a jar and it’s a paste form. Definitely do not skip that ingredient.
The last thing I want to talk about before we get to the full recipe is the noodles traditional. You know, like canned Campbell’s chicken noodle soup has a very specific noodle. It is not spaghetti, it is not a frozen thick egg noodle. It’s something called a kluski noodle, and I believe it’s spelled K L U S K I. They sometimes are also called Swabian Spaetzle noodles, which you’re probably like, yeah, I’m never going to find in my grocery store. But you’ll be surprised. It’s probably going to be called a Kluski Noodle at your grocery store, and most likely it’s going to be maybe in the soup aisle, or it’s going to be on the bottom shelf near the pasta. So definitely look for that. That is the type of noodle that your kids are used to if they’ve had just canned Campbell’s chicken noodle soup.
Chicken Noodle Soup for Kids Recipe: So let’s get on to making this full recipe. You’re going to start with a large pot over medium, medium-high heat. Add a little bit of olive oil or canola oil. Then you’re going to add in one cup of diced carrots. You can use baby carrots or you can use whole peeled carrots. Whatever you have in your fridge will work just fine. You’re going to let those soften for about three to five minutes, and then you’re going to sprinkle in a quarter teaspoon of garlic powder and onion powder.
I know I said there would be no garlic or onion. This is just a quarter teaspoon, so it’s going to add enough flavor to the soup that they won’t be able to put their finger on. They’re still going to love it. They also sprinkle in an eighth of a teaspoon of kosher salt, celery salt, and turmeric powder. Give that a good stir around the pot. Then you’re going to pour in 32 ounces of chicken broth and one teaspoon of that chicken base that we talked about. Give that a good stir and turn the heat up to medium, medium-high, and bring the pot to a simmer. Once that broth starts to simmer, you’ll add in one cup of cooked chicken that’s diced pretty small. Whatever you think your kids will like, dice it to that size. And one cup up to one and a half cups, if your kids really like noodles of those kluski noodles that we talked about in the ingredient section as well. You’re going to let that simmer for about 12 to 15 minutes until the noodles are cooked through, and the carrots are nice and softened.
At the end, you want to make sure you taste it for additional seasoning and it’s good to go. Now as far as serving your chicken noodle soup for kids for dinner, we just keep it really simple and we either add some warm, crusty bread on the side, as they would get at Panera or saltine crackers. Then we might mix up some chocolate milk to go with the soup.
That does it for today’s recipe. As always, I will link all of the recipes I talked about in this episode right in the show notes for you.
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Outro: Until next time, I hope this episode of Let’s Make Dinner makes your dinner time a little easier.
Tips Shared
Take advantage of the rotisserie chickens at Costco or your local grocery store to make this soup. You can also poach a chicken breast or bake one at 350 for 15-20 minutes (reaching 165 degree internal temp. Or just use leftover chicken.
Don’t skip the chicken base! It adds a ton of flavor. You can find it in the soup aisle near the bouillon. It comes in a paste form in a jar. We love the Better Than Bouillon brand.
The noodles you need for this soup to look like traditional Campbells soup are called Kluski Noodles (or sometimes called Swabian Spaetzle Egg Noodles). You will find them either in the soup aisle or near the pasta.
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