Making homemade soup can take a long time, but with your magic crockpot, you can get a wonderful batch of chicken noodle soup while you are taking care of other tasks. While you are out and about, your soup will be happily simmering, creating a delectable bowl of comfort. This is a meal you can easily make whether you are an accomplished chef or if you only cook when absolutely necessary. Your chicken soup will turn out much better than any canned soup you can buy.

Just the Freshest Ingredients

If you prefer to use only the freshest ingredients that you can buy, the crockpot can still be your best friend. Before cooking, remove the skin from the chicken. You can use whatever chicken you have on hand… parts, boneless or a whole bird. Place the chicken in the pot and cover it with enough liquid that it is completely submerged. Add a bit of celery, a carrot, and some onion… whatever helps flavor your broth. Put it on high for three to four hours.

Once the chicken is cooked, remove it and let it cool off. Strain out the vegetables and herbs you may have put in with the chicken and toss them. Remove the cooled meat from the bones and cut it into small pieces before adding it back to the broth. Add some freshly chopped vegetables of your choice: perhaps some carrots, sweet potatoes, rutabagas, celery, or other favorites. Add a little garlic and some herbs if you wish.

Keeping the crockpot on high let it cook for a couple more hours. Do not open the lid until it is time to add your noodles. Taste the broth about 45 minutes before you want to serve the soup. Add salt and other seasonings as needed. Add your noodles. This can be egg noodles, linguine, fettuccine, or any other noodle you prefer. Perhaps you have made homemade noodles to add… if so, they only need to cook about 20 minutes until they are tender.

Simply Easy Chicken Noodle Soup

If you want to make soup extremely easy, try this tried and true method. This homemade chicken noodle soup is so easy a rank amateur could make it. If you have leftover chicken in the fridge, you can use that in your soup, or you can pick up one of those rotisserie chickens at the market.

Add the chicken to the crockpot, and cover with a large container of chicken broth. Let the soup simmer on high for three or four hours. Remove the chicken at this point and let it cool before removing the bones. Cut up the meat and add it back to the broth.

Get a bag of baby carrots at the market and drop them in. No preparation needed! Alternatively, you can cut up your favorite vegetables to add, or use frozen vegetables if you prefer. Leave the soup to cook another couple of hours.

About half an hour to 45 minutes before you want to eat, add your favorite noodles. You can use any kind of noodles you like, from ruffly egg noodles to ramen. Large ribbon noodles are fun. This is also a great way to use up small amounts of noodles in your cupboard. Mix and match if you need to. Break up some spaghetti, put in a handful of macaroni. It is your soup, do what you want!