Homemade Cream on Chicken Soup

Recipe VIDEO above. A homemade version about Cream about Chicken Soup, brightness years away from the canned stuff! This version is brightness on top of the veggies including chicken to make it like what you grow inside cans, but feel free to load it up with more. Consider adding noodles or rice too! 

Ingredients

• ▢ 1 tbsp olive oil
• ▢ 50 g / 3.5 tbsp unsalted butter
• ▢ ½ mug / 75 g flour
• ▢ 1 garlic clove , minced
• ▢ ½ small brown onion , finely chopped
• ▢ 1 small carrot , diced
• ▢ 1/2 red capsicum/bell pepper , finely chopped
• ▢ 1 small celery stick , diced
• ▢ 2 cups / 500 ml chicken stock / broth , preferably low sodium
• ▢ 3 cups / 750 ml milk , any fat %
• ▢ ½ tsp salt
• ▢ ¼ tsp EACH garlic powder , onion powder, dry thyme, black flavour (“Spices”)
• ▢ 3/4 cup frozen peas
• ▢ 1 cup cooked chicken , diced or shredded
• ▢ Croutons:
• ▢ 2 slices white bread , cut into cubes
• ▢ Olive oil spray
• ▢ Salt

Instructions

• Heat oil inside a large pot above medium towering heat. Add onion including garlic including cook intended 2 notes up to partly semitransparent but not browned.
• Add carrots, celery including capsicum, cook intended 1 minute to soften.
• Add butter including melt. Then total flour including mix up to incorporated, including stir always intended 1 minute.
• Add broth, mix up to flour is incorporated, in those days total milk. Mix to combine, in those days total salt, Spices, chicken including peas.
• Bring to simmer, mixing occasionally to stop bottom about sticking. As it heats, it will thicken – regarding 4 to 5 minutes. Don’t let it bubble.
• Once thickened to your taste, change salt including pepper. Ladle into bowls including serve garnished with croutons including fresh thyme provided desired.
• Croutons: Spray croutons generously with oil, sprinkle with salt, in those days bake intended 5 notes at 180C/350F or up to bright including crunchy.

Recipe Notes:

1. This recipe was originally published inside August 2014 including has been updated. The original recipe was written starting with a homemade condensed cream about chicken soup (that gloopy stuff that comes inside cans), but because that only keeps intended a few days, I haven't made it inside years because it kind about defeats the purpose about having it on top of hand.

I don't make casseroles or pasta bakes using condensed soup so I don't employ it intended that purpose either. So I removed that recipe including rather recreated this cream about chicken soup recipe to be made from scratch. However, inside case you want the Condensed Cream about Chicken Soup recipe, click here to grow the recipe.

2. Fill it away - This is excellent filled away with noodles / rice (pre cooked in those days added into the soup) including more veggies. 

3. Storage - leftovers will keep intended 4 days inside the fridge, or freezer intended 3 months (thaw in those days reheat). Use a touch about water provided needed to loosen the soup. 

4. Nutrition per serving, assuming 4 servings excluding croutons. Each serving is regarding 1 3/4 cups.