We had this for dinner last night and I thought it was yummy. Braden is NOT a soup person so I don't get to make soups very often. His least favorite soup is chicken noodle, which happen to enjoy a lot. AND, he doesn't like soups in the summer, so if I want to make them, its got to be in the winter. I'm running out of winter here in AZ, so I've started making a different soup/stew/chili once a week. He hasn't noticed yet...
Anyway, his favorite soup is chicken and wild rice soup. So I found a recipe for it and tried it. Yes, you can just sub the noodles for rice in chicken noodle soup, but I wanted to try something different. This recipe has different herbs and spices than I would normally put in a soup which gives it a more earthy taste. It kind of reminds me of Thanksgiving in a way.
We just had it for leftovers again and it was still good! So I thought I'd blog about it. I did change the recipe a bit to go in a Crockpot instead of a stockpot and I cooked it for 5 hours instead of 30 minutes. But you could change it back and do it on the stove if you want. I also added wild rice since the original recipe only called for brown rice. Braden enjoyed that touch. But if you don't like/have wild rice, stick with just brown! And brown is better than white because it has a chewier texture and holds up better in the soup. Enjoy!
CHICKEN AND BROWN & WILD RICE SOUP
1 1/2 lbs chicken, cubed
Salt & pepper
2 tsp olive oil
1 cup diced onion
1 cup diced celery
1 cup diced carrots
2 tsp sage
1 tsp garlic salt
1/4 tsp thyme
1/8 tsp nutmeg
4 cups chicken broth
1 cup water
1/4 cup wild rice, uncooked
2 cups cooked brown rice
Season chicken with salt and pepper. Heat oil in large skillet. Sear chicken until golden, approx 7-10 minutes. Meanwhile, mix onions, celery, carrots, sage, garlic salt, thyme, and nutmeg. Stir well. Add veggie mix to chicken. Saute 5 minutes. Pour skillet contents into Crock Pot. Add broth, water, and wild rice. Cover pot and cook on low for 5-7 hours or on high for 3-5 hours. 15 minutes before serving, add cooked brown rice. Stir well.
I'm sure that you could add the brown rice, uncooked, at the beginning. But I haven't tried that yet so I'm not going to write the recipe that way. Let me know if you've ever done that...
2 comments:
Way to go, cheri!! Mary made me chicken/wild rice soup SO long ago, and remember it being amazing. When I was prego (the first time) chicken/wild rice soup was ALL i wanted to eat, and we went to 4 restaurants seeing if we could get it, then settled for Steve to buy it at the grocery store, then once I tasted it, I didn't like it...isn't THAT a typical Prego story in the movies? Yeah, those cravings never really happened to me since then, but it's a nice feather in my cap to know I experienced it once. In the meantime, the recipe looks great, and you've never failed me once.
i LOVE soups~~ i will definitely have to give this one a whirl!!!
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