Fall is the perfect weather for soup. I try new soup recipes. Pull out old favorites & get the crockpot going. Like to keep a variety going so I usually freeze half of a batch to eat later & eat half.
Leftover roasted chicken being cut up for Wild Rice Chicken Soup.
Have some roasted chicken left over from the other night. Have this hankering for a pot of soup. Good combination. Start the search first through my recipes to see if anything strikes my fancy. If it doesn’t, I’ll move onto hunting a new chicken soup recipe.
Ah! Wild Rice & Chicken Soup. Hmm, sounds like I have the one! Pull the medium crockpot down & start throwing ingredients in there. First thing I do is start cutting the chicken off the bones & cutting it up into bite-sized pieces. Then I slice my celery and baby carrots. Baby carrots aren’t required. I simply have started keeping baby carrots since I can usually find them for the same price as regular carrots. (Less cutting is required for them.)
The mushrooms are rinsed & easily sliced. All the vegetables are now in the crockpot. I add the can of soup & stir throughly. Start adding the chicken broth & discover I have a problem. I have miscalculated how big this batch is! Pull down the large crockpot & transfer all the ingredients into it. Finish adding the required chicken broth & water. Turn the crockpot on to the low setting & leave it alone.
Bowl of the finished Wild Rice Chicken Soup
Left it alone all afternoon to cook while I worked on other things. Soup is another one of those foods that I consider a comfort food–especially on cool days and evenings. Once it’s ready, Jim is in the soup several times before going to bed. Even though I know better, he swears he’s never had the soup before. Tells me it’s the best soup he’s ever had. However, that’s not the first time I’ve heard that so let’s just say he really likes this soup.
Wild Rice and Chicken Soup
1 can cream of mushroom soup 1 cup celery
2½ cups chopped cooked chicken 1 6 oz. pkg. long grain & wild rice mix
2 cups sliced fresh mushrooms 5 cups chicken broth
1 cup coarsely chopped carrots 5 cups water
In crock pot combine soup, chicken, mushrooms, carrot, celery, rice and contents of seasoning packet. Gradually stir in broth and water. Cover and cook on low setting for 6 hours.
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