A homemade chicken stock is combined with leftover chicken, carrots, celery and herbs in this Low FODMAP Chicken Soup from Scratch. Can be made with gluten-free pasta or rice.
REAL Chicken Soup for the Soul
I have never made chicken soup completely from scratch before. I mean the kind where you make your own broth with a chicken carcass. The kind where you have juicy meat plucked straight from the bird. The kind where it simmers all afternoon. REAL chicken soup. Oh my gosh, it’s fabulous! What took me so long to try this?
I don’t think I will be able to crack open a can of chicken broth for chicken noodle soup again. It really is not difficult, but I had it in my mind that it was. All you do is boil a chicken carcass (the bones leftover from a roast chicken) with veggies in water. The night before I had roasted a chicken with vegetables for our dinner. Since there is only two of us, there was plenty of meat leftover for soup. I picked the meat off after we were done eating, then threw the bones in a big storage bag in the fridge and saved them both for the next day. The next afternoon, I dumped the bones in with some carrots, green onions, celery and other things (whatever you like, really) and simmered for several hours. What a comforting smell on a chilly autumn afternoon!
You can find the recipes for my Low FODMAP Chicken Broth & Stock here by clicking on the photo:
This Low FODMAP Chicken Soup from Scratch recipe is a combination of adaptations of a couple of recipes. One from my Betty Crocker Cookbook and one from allrecipes.com (Quick & Easy Chicken Noodle Soup). It’s a recipe I’ve used for years and have always loved, but the addition of the homemade broth makes it one of the best chicken noodle soups I’ve ever had!
Low FODMAP Chicken Soup from Scratch
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
- 1/2 cup chopped celery (about 1 rib)
- 6 cups Low-FODMAP Chicken Broth or Stock
- 2 cups chopped cooked chicken
- 1 cup uncooked short gluten-free pasta, such as fusilli or rotini (see note)
- 1 cup sliced carrots (about 2 medium)
- 1 bay leaf
- 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
- 1/2 teaspoon dried basil
- 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper (or to taste)
- 1 teaspoon salt (or to taste)
Instructions
- In a large pot over medium heat, melt the butter. Sauté celery in butter until tender, about 5 minutes.
- Pour in chicken stock and add remaining ingredients. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer 20 minutes or until pasta and veggies are tender. Remove bay leaf and serve.
Notes
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Amazing soup!! I cook for my brother who is on a strict low sodium diet, so I made a few minor changes to recipe. He ate 3 hearty bowls at 1 sitting and can't stop raving about it. Told my whole family how delicious and healthy it was. So I added a bit extra of all of the listed herbs and spices, but no salt. My herbs were fresh from garden. I will definitely make this again. Oh, also added some fresh spinach at the end. Thank you for sharing 🙂
Thank you! Glad it worked for you and your brother. 🙂
My entire family LOVED the broth and soup! It was a cold November day in Massachusetts — perfect for soup! Thank you for another fantastic low-FODMAP recipe.
Glad you liked it! It's one of my favorite recipes for the winter.
Wonderful! Made a huge pot of this soup today and between my two teenaged sons and my husband it is gone. Declared it the best I have ever made. Love your recipes – thanks for sharing !!
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!
Making this tonight. Thanks!
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Thank you for sharing this recipe!! I've made it and the "Lemon Quinoa Chicken Soup" from the soup stock recipe you have. Both are delicious and I will make again! I didn't get the recipes from your website, though, as I had purchased the book. Having access to it online is helpful, though, when I'm not home where my cookbook is!
My daughter can't have carrots. Anything to replace them in the chicken noodle soup?
One of the best chicken soup’s I’ve made. As for carrot sub… parsnips. Squash, zucchini, beets, celery, jicama, diamonds, water chestnuts.
I meant diamonds not diamonds. Autocorrect.
I meant daikon.