Category: Soup/Stews

This creamy chicken couscous soup is a delicious and cozy comfort food, perfect for chilly winter days. Creamy and light, but satisfying at the same time, this is a soup that is in rotation all year long.

Another quick soup is on the menu today!

I love making a quick and easy soup for lunch and dinner – and this creamy chicken couscous soup is crave worthy! 

Yes, it’s basically another way that we love to eat chicken noodle soup. You know that I’m a huge fan of couscous, whether it be as a side dish, as the base for a grain bowl – it’s wonderful. Maybe my favorite ingredient to use for salads and more! 

This chicken couscous soup has a rich parmesan broth with carrots and celery, lots of shredded chicken and a big cup of couscous poured in towards the end.

Oh my gosh. It’s creamy. So delicious! Easy and simple and a nice way to change things up. 

This reminds me a lot of my chicken and stars soup. A tiny cut of pasta, a spritz of lemon, lots of fresh herbs – the flavor profile is similar. This soup is creamier and has a more hearty feel on a spoon. And it is so.freaking.good.

Do you know what it also reminds me of? My chicken soup risotto! The orzo sucks up a lot of the broth and this almost becomes a “stoup.” It is so thick and creamy and that increases as it sits. The leftovers can actually be scooped out and served like a side dish – soup bowl required – because it’s so thick and creamy. 

In a good way, of course! 

There are a million recipes out there for GOOD chicken soup. So I’m not going to bore you with the details, but I’ll share a few tips that make the soup excellent for me.

First, a parmesan rind! Can’t make soup without it. Cut the rind off your parmigiano-reggiano cheese (or buy a container of rinds at the grocery store) and toss it right in the stock pot. Simmer the soup with the rind in it to get the most delicious savory, rice broth that is heavy on the parmesan flavor. 

Next, a spritz of lemon juice. This is key at the end to balance the flavors. It adds some brightness and also tastes incredible. 

Finally, a good stock is also key here. This is where all your flavor is going to come from! 

If I don’t have my own on hand, I love using the organic one from costco. You just want to be sure that your stock has a lot of flavor – and that you season the soup with salt and pepper accordingly!  (more…)

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This creamy chicken and broccoli soup is delicious and easy, perfect for a busy weeknight! It’s satisfying, loaded with vegetables and full of flavor!

It’s a soup day!

This creamy chicken and broccoli soup is a hug in a bowl. Creamy soup with lots of vegetables, broccoli florets, shredded chicken and a hit of both parmesan and lemon. So delicious for the chilly season!

This is the soup recipe that made my entire family fall in love with soup.

Sure, they like soup. They don’t LIKE like it like I do. There is no infatuation with soup on their end. That’s for me alone. I could live on soup!

But this soup broke the mold. 

Think of it as a cross between chicken noodle soup (without the noodles) and broccoli cheddar soup (without the cheddar).  

I know. It sounds weird.

It doesn’t even sound that good. 

But when the whole thing comes together, it’s perfect. Creamy, cozy and everything you want in a soup. The parmesan rind adds a wonderful depth of flavor – a rich nuttiness that only parmesan can. The spritz of lemon adds a fresh brightness. The soup is soft but textured, easy and comes together fast. 

The kids and Eddie adore this soup. They have multiple servings when I make it, and this is definitely the first soup that Jordan (who is two!) enjoyed. Now he does a happy soup dance every time I even mention soup, because he loves this so much.

You can’t beat how easy this is. I almost always use a rotisserie chicken because it’s simple and tastes great. If I’m going to make this later in the week, I will also chop my onions, celery and carrots and keep them in a sealed jar in the fridge.

It comes together so quickly if you do that.

It’s also a great clean-out-the-fridge soup! I use those classic chicken soup vegetables, the onions, carrots and celery. And of course, broccoli is the star of the show here. But if you have any other veggies hanging out in the fridge, you can toss them in too. 

And!

I love to thicken this soup using a slurry instead of making a roux. I find that a slurry thickens soups so nicely and evenly. And also, quickly. 

This is one of my favorites because of how reminiscent it is of broccoli cheddar. That’s one of my greatest soup loves. And this recipe reminds me so much of that – the texture, even a little bit of the flavor. But it’s lighter and even a little more satisfying with the chicken.  (more…)

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