5 Ingredient Chicken Soup Recipe

5 Ingredient Chicken Soup Recipe – how to make an easy simple homemade dinner meal with healthy ingredients – with the quick video tutorial.

5 Ingredient Chicken Soup

This 5 ingredient chicken soup makes an easy, hearty meal that the whole family will enjoy. Best of all, you can adapt the simple recipe to your tastes and dietary requirements.

We love chicken soup as a meal all year around, but especially during the winter months as a comforting meal to help nourish and keep us healthy.

The Simple Ingredients For 5-Ingredient Chicken Soup 

To make the easy recipe, you’ll need the following as the core 5 ingredients:

Chicken – you can include your chicken piece of choice, my choice is to use skin on bone in chicken thighs, legs or wings for maximum flavor and nutrition. You could also use leftover rotisserie chicken or add in a couple of chopped chicken breasts as well. 

Onion – chop any onion you’d like from red onion, brown onion or spring onions.

Garlic – for a rich garlic flavor, chop up 3-4 fresh garlic cloves, or more, depending on how much of a garlic flavor you’d like your soup to have.

Carrots – always an essential element of chicken soup for me. I keep my carrots unpeeled for the added beneficial fiber, but you can feel free to peel your carrots if you’d prefer.

Apple Cider Vinegar – to both help balance the flavor of the soup and add incredible potential nutritional benefits, a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar is a must in chicken soup recipes. (Source.)

Optional Extra Ingredients

There are so many ways you can adapt the simple recipe to your tastes, dietary requirements and what you have in your kitchen. Here are some ideas for you:

Seasoning – you’ll notice the recipe is void of seasoning, that’s to leave it to you to add sea salt, black pepper or any other seasoning or fresh herbs that you’d like that you usually include in your meals to satisfy your taste buds. 

5-Ingredient Chicken Noodle Soup – turn the soup into a comforting noodle soup by adding in egg noodles for the last few minutes of cooking time. 

Creamy Topping – top your bowl of hot soup with a swirl of sour cream, heavy cream or cream cheese for extra flavor and healthy fats. 

Fresh Vegetables – feel free to add in any other vegetable you’d like such as chopped broccoli, zucchini, celery, peas or corn for the last few minutes of cooking time.

5 Ingredient Chicken Soup Recipe

• 1kg/2.2lbs Chicken
• 1 Medium Onion, peeled and chopped
• 3-4 Garlic Cloves, peeled and chopped
• 2-3 Large Carrots, chopped
• 1 Tablespoon Apple Cider Vinegar

1. Heat olive oil or butter in a large soup pot over medium-high heat on the stove top.
2. Meanwhile, open the chicken and sprinkle over a few shakes of optional seasoning such as salt and black pepper, to taste.
3. When the large pot is hot, add in the chopped onion and garlic and cook until softened, adding more oil or butter as needed.
4. Once the onion and garlic have softened, add in the raw chicken and toss frequently to brown on all sides.
5. Add in the chopped carrots and cook until the chicken is lightly browned.
6. Pour cold water over to cover the chicken and vegetables, add the apple cider vinegar, more salt and pepper to taste, and bring the soup up to the boil.
7. Once boiling, reduce to a low heat, cover the pot with a lid and simmer gently for 1 to 1.5 hours or until the chicken is softened and soup flavored to your liking.
8. Enjoy the chicken broth straight away or cool the finished soup completely, place in the fridge overnight and enjoy a more flavorful soup the following day, storing leftovers in an airtight container to enjoy within a couple of days.

Easy Recipe Video Tutorial 

Here’s the video for how to make the homemade 5-Ingredient Chicken Soup. Hit play below or click here to watch on YouTube. 

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