❤️ Why You’ll Love Chicken and Vegetable Soup
Healthy: This dish is full of wholesome, healthy ingredients that will give you the energy to get through the cooler winter months Versatile: You can make this soup your own by choosing your favorite beans, swapping the noodles, or even using different veggies
🍲 Ingredients
Fennel – Fennel is such an underrated vegetable. It’s so flavorful and good to eat raw or to add in recipes like this chicken and vegetable soup. Fennel is a member of the carrot family but unlike carrots, it has a very mild anise or licorice flavor. Not everyone likes it for this reason. Butter Beans – Also known as lima beans, butter beans have a creamy and buttery taste. I love them and there are so many things you can do with them like add them in a stew or bake them in a curry.
👩🍳 How to Make Chicken and Vegetable Soup
🪄 Tips and Tricks
If you don’t think you’ll eat all the soup the night of, you can cook the orzo can be cooked separately. I find when you have leftover soup with noodles, all the soup gets absorbed in the noodles and you end up with a sloppy stew. Keeping them separate will prevent this
🗒 Substitutions
Chicken or Veggie Stock Paste: If you don’t have any paste on hand, you can use chicken or vegetable broth instead and skip adding the water Butter Beans: If you can’t find butter beans, they may be under the name lima beans. If you can’t find them at all, you can sub for other beans like cannellini or navy beans Orzo: Swap the orzo for quinoa or other small noodles you have on hand like macaroni Chicken: If you don’t like or have chicken breasts, you can use thighs, or you can skip the meat entirely and double the number of beans to make it heartier and vegetarian
🗒 Best served with
Fluffy Greek Pita Cheddar Biscuits with Sage Italian Chopped Salad
👝 How to Store Leftovers
Store the leftovers in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 4 days. Keep the orzo separately in its container if you can and just combine when you’re ready to eat.
🤔 Common Questions
