Best Spinach Chicken Noodle Soup Recipes

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CHINESE CHICKEN NOODLE SOUP WITH SPINACH AND GARLIC CHIVES



Chinese Chicken Noodle Soup with Spinach and Garlic Chives image

Categories     Soup/Stew     Chicken     Ginger     Leafy Green     Onion     Pasta     Poultry     Lunar New Year     Winter     Gourmet

Yield Makes about 8 cups

Number Of Ingredients 8

a 3 1/2- to 4-pound chicken
8 thin slices fresh gingerroot
1 bunch scallions, cut crosswise into thirds
10 cups water
3/4 cup Chinese rice wine or medium-dry Sherry
2 ounces dried rice-stick noodles (rice vermicelli)
1/2 pound fresh spinach, coarse stems discarded and leaves washed, drained, and chopped coarse (about 4 packed cups)
3/4 cup thinly sliced fresh garlic chives or regular fresh chives

Steps:

  • With a cleaver or heavy chef's knife cut chicken into large pieces. Cut chicken through bones into 2-inch pieces. In a large kettle of boiling water blanch chicken 1 minute. In a colander drain chicken and rinse under cold water.
  • With flat side of cleaver or knife lightly smash gingerroot and scallions. In cleaned kettle bring 10 cups water to a boil with chicken, gingerroot, scallions, rice wine or Sherry and simmer, uncovered, skimming froth occasionally, 2 hours. Pour broth through colander lined with triple thickness of cheesecloth into a large heatproof bowl, reserving chicken for another use. Broth may be made 3 days ahead, cooled completely, uncovered, and chilled, covered.
  • In cleaned kettle bring broth to a boil. Add noodles and boil, stirring occasionally, 2 minutes. Stir in spinach and simmer, stirring once or twice, until spinach turns bright green and is just tender, about 3 minutes. Stir in chives and salt and pepper to taste and simmer 1 minute.

SPINACH CHICKEN NOODLE SOUP



Spinach Chicken Noodle Soup image

Friends and family who would formerly never eat spinach absolutely love this quick and easy soup. Instant chicken noodle soup mix, frozen spinach, and a simplified white sauce are a dynamite combination. It can easily be made more rich by adding cream or extra eggs, thicker with additional flour, or lightened up with skim milk and omitting the egg. It's also been made with only one packet of soup and a little less flour, and you can be REALLY fancy and make a proper white sauce with butter, milk and flour if you have a lot of time. The proportions/recipe are very forgiving. The recipe originally came from a friend of my mother's in the 1980s, and we called it "Swamp Soup" when we accidentally used a package of frozen whole leaf spinach instead of the chopped variety!

Provided by MerBot

Categories     Lunch/Snacks

Time 15m

Yield 8 cups, 4 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 6

2 (83 g) packets chicken noodle soup mix
8 cups water
1 (10 ounce) package frozen chopped spinach
1/2 cup white flour
1 cup milk
1 egg (optional)

Steps:

  • Prepare chicken noodle soup with the water according to package directions.
  • Meanwhile, defrost the spinach in the microwave.
  • Mix together the milk and flour (in the measuring cup is fine) until the mixture is fairly smooth.
  • When the noodles are cooked, bring the soup back to a rolling boil and whisk in the spinach and then the milk-flour mixture.
  • Crack the egg into the measuring cup, then whisk it into the soup as it continues to boil. Long "strings" of egg white should often form and the flour mixture will have thickened the soup. There should only be a few, if any, remaining lumps from the milk-flour mixture, but if present they will have cooked into little "dumplings" as well.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 1161, Fat 20.9, SaturatedFat 7, Cholesterol 213.3, Sodium 10171.2, Carbohydrate 190.2, Fiber 11.5, Sugar 5.9, Protein 49.1

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