Try Child Nutrition’s Home-Style Chicken Noodle Soup Recipe

October 1st, 2024 /
Alexander Glaves /
Child Nutrition, News

We’re proud of the quality of our meals. We want your students to feel at home at school, so we aim to make homemade-style meals away from home. Not only are we offering locally sourced fresh produce and meat choices, but our Child Nutrition team is continually revising and revitalizing our menus. Today, we’d love for you to try our delicious home-style chicken noodle soup. It’s the perfect recipe to warm up your child’s stomach on a cold Summer day.

Eat it with a homemade roll, or a bag of tasty cheesy crackers, to round out the meal.

Home-Style Chicken Noodle Soup

Makes 8 4-oz servings.

Ingredients:

Chopped yellow onion – ½ cup
Chopped celery – 1 ½ cups
Water – 9 cup
Chicken Base – 2 tablespoon
Sliced Frozen Carrots – 1 cup
Diced chicken – 1 lbs
Ground basil – ½ tsp
Oregano – ½ tsp
Black pepper – 1/8 tsp
Cooked wide egg noodle pasta –½ cup
Salted butter – 1 tbsp

Directions:

Chop celery and onion.
Melt butter in a large pot over medium heat. Add celery and onion and cook about 5 minutes.
Add chicken base, water, chicken, carrots, basil, oregano, and pepper. Stir and bring to a boil.
Reduce heat and simmer for 10 minutes.
Add egg noodles and simmer for another 10 minutes or until tender.
Cook until chicken reaches internal temperature of 165 degrees.
Hold at 135 degrees for service. Serving size should be about 1 Cup. Serve with a roll or goldfish crackers.